title: Evidence for a second nucleotide binding site in rat elongation factor eEF-2 specific for adenylic nucleotides.
abstract: The rat elongation factor eEF-2 catalyzes the translocation step of protein synthesis. Besides its well-characterized GTP/GDP binding properties, we have previously shown that ATP and ADP bind to eEF-2 [Sontag, B., Reboud, A. M., Divita, G., Di Pietro, A., Guillot, D., and Reboud, J. P. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 1976-1980]. However, whether the adenylic and guanylic nucleotide binding sites were different or not remained unclear. To further characterize these sites, eEF-2 was incubated in the presence of N-methylanthraniloyl (Mant) fluorescent derivatives of GTP, GDP, ATP, and ADP. This led to an increase in the probe fluorescence and to a partial quenching of eEF-2 tryptophans in each case. The Mant-derivatives and the unmodified corresponding nucleotides were shown to bind to eEF-2 with a similar affinity. Competition experiments between Mant-labeled and unmodified nucleotides suggested the presence of two different sites binding either guanylic or adenylic nucleotides. A Förster's transfer between tryptophan residues and the Mant-probe is obtained with both the adenylic and the guanylic Mant-nucleotides, and comparison of the transfer efficiencies confirmed the presence of a second binding site specific for adenylic nucleotides. A sequence alignment of EF-Gs with eEF-2s from different species suggests the presence of potential Walker A and B motifs in an insert of the G-domain of eEF-2s from higher eukaryotes. Our results raise the possibility that a site specific for adenylic nucleotides and located in this insert has appeared in the course of evolution although its physiological function is still unknown.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biochimie Médicale and Laboratoire de Biochimie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, CNRS-UMR 5086, 7, passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France. p.gonzalo@ibcp.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gonzalo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sontag
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lavergne
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jault
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Reboud
mesh_terms: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism*; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D000345:Affinity Labels / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002645:Chickens; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D004735:Energy Transfer; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000378:metabolism; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020652:Peptide Elongation Factor 2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D051381:Rats; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D062367:ortho-Aminobenzoates / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000227:Adenine Nucleotides; D000345:Affinity Labels; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D020652:Peptide Elongation Factor 2; D062367:ortho-Aminobenzoates; C065197:3'-(methylanthraniloyl)-2'-deoxy-guanosine diphosphate; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; C081523:3'-O-(N-methylanthraniloyl)adenosine 5'-diphosphate; C045473:3'-O-(N-methylanthraniloyl) ATP; C063981:2'(3')-O-(N-methyl)anthraniloylguanosine 5'-triphosphate; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate