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Intragenic suppressor mutations restore GTPase and translation functions of a eukaryotic initiation factor 5B switch II mutant.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Mar 2007
Shin Byung-Sik, Acker Michael G, Maag David, Kim Joo-Ran, Lorsch Jon R, Dever Thomas E
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Structural studies of GTP-binding proteins identified the Switch I and Switch II elements as contacting the gamma-phosphate of GTP and undergoing marked conformational changes upon GTP versus GDP binding. Movement of a universally conserved Gly at the N terminus of Switch II is thought to trigger the structural rearrangement of this element. Consistently, we found that mutation of this Gly in the Switch II...
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