title: Phosphorylation of mammalian translation initiation factor 5 (eIF5) in vitro and in vivo.
abstract: Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5 (eIF5) interacts with the 40S initiation complex (40S*eIF3*AUG*Met-tRNA(f)*eIF2*GTP) and, acting as a GTPase activating protein, promotes the hydrolysis of bound GTP. We isolated a protein kinase from rabbit reticulocyte lysates on the basis of its ability to phosphorylate purified bacterially expressed recombinant rat eIF5. Physical, biochemical and antigenic properties of this kinase identify it as casein kinase II (CK II). Mass spectrometric analysis of maximally in vitro phosphorylated eIF5 localized the major phosphorylation sites at Ser-387 and Ser-388 near the C-terminus of eIF5. These serine residues are embedded within a cluster of acidic amino acid residues and account for nearly 90% of the total in vitro eIF5 phosphorylation. A minor phosphorylation site at Ser-174 was also observed. Alanine substitution mutagenesis at Ser-387 and Ser-388 of eIF5 abolishes phosphorylation by the purified kinase as well as by crude reticulocyte lysates. The same mutations also abolish phosphorylation of eIF5 when transfected into mammalian cells suggesting that CK II phosphorylates eIF5 at these two serine residues in vivo as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Romit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Majumdar
authors.forename: Amitabha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: Haiteng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Umadas
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Maitra
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D047390:Casein Kinase II; D040061:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-5; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010448:Peptide Initiation Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D010768:Phosphoserine / Q000378:metabolism; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012156:Reticulocytes / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D040061:Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-5; D010448:Peptide Initiation Factors; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D010768:Phosphoserine; D047390:Casein Kinase II; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases