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Autophosphorylation of threonine 485 in the activation loop is essential for attaining eIF2alpha kinase activity of HRI.
Biochemistry - 3 Jun 2003
Rafie-Kolpin Maryam, Han An-Ping, Chen Jane-Jane
Abstract excerpt
In heme deficiency, protein synthesis is inhibited by the activation of the heme-regulated eIF2alpha kinase (HRI) through its multiple autophosphorylation. Autophosphorylation sites in HRI were identified in order to investigate their functions. We found that there were eight major tryptic phosphopeptides of HRI activated in heme deficiency. In this report we focused on the role of autophosphorylation at Thr483...
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