Article
Temperature-sensitive eIF5A mutant accumulates transcripts targeted to the nonsense-mediated decay pathway.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 17 Nov 2006
Schrader Rainer, Young Craig, Kozian Detlef, Hoffmann Reinhard, Lottspeich Friedrich
Abstract excerpt
The highly conserved protein eIF5A found in Archaea and all eukaryotes uniquely contains the posttranslationally formed amino acid hypusine. Despite being essential the functions of this protein and its modification remain unclear. To gain more insight into these functions temperature-sensitive mutants of the human EIF5A1 were characterized in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Expression of the point mutated...
Topics
- Humans
- Mutation
- Peptide Initiation Factors
- RNA Stability
- RNA, Messenger
- RNA-Binding Proteins
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Temperature
- Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 5A
