title: Expression of elongation factor 1 beta' in Escherichia coli and its interaction with elongation factor 1 alpha from silk gland.
abstract: Silk gland elongation factor 1 (EF-1) consists of four subunits: alpha, beta, beta', and gamma. EF-1 beta beta' gamma catalyzes the exchange of GDP for GTP on EF-1 alpha and stimulates the binding of EF-1 alpha-dependent aminoacyl-tRNA to ribosomes. The carboxy-terminal regions of the EF-1 beta subunits from various species are highly conserved. We examined the region of EF-1 beta' that binds to EF-1 alpha by in vitro binding assays, and examined the GDP/GTP exchange activity using deletion mutants of a GST-EF1 beta' fusion protein. We thereby suggested a pivotal amino acid region, residues 189-222, of EF-1 beta' for binding to EF-1 alpha.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Aomori University, Japan. kamiie@aomori-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kamiie
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kidou
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ejiri
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D012831:Bombyx / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005088:Exocrine Glands / Q000378:metabolism*; D006150:Guanine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006150:Guanine Nucleotides; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors