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Quaternary organization of the human eEF1B complex reveals unique multi-GEF domain assembly.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Bondarchuk, Tetiana V 
Shalak, Vyacheslav F  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6114-6482
Lozhko, Dmytro M 
Fatalska, Agnieszka 
Szczepanowski, Roman H 

Abstract

Protein synthesis in eukaryotic cell is spatially and structurally compartmentalized that ensures high efficiency of this process. One of the distinctive features of higher eukaryotes is the existence of stable multi-protein complexes of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translation elongation factors. Here, we report a quaternary organization of the human guanine-nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) complex, eEF1B, comprising α, β and γ subunits that specifically associate into a heterotrimeric form eEF1B(αβγ)3. As both the eEF1Bα and eEF1Bβ proteins have structurally conserved GEF domains, their total number within the complex is equal to six. Such, so far, unique structural assembly of the guanine-nucleotide exchange factors within a stable complex may be considered as a 'GEF hub' that ensures efficient maintenance of the translationally active GTP-bound conformation of eEF1A in higher eukaryotes.

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Keywords

Humans, Peptide Elongation Factor 1, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Protein Biosynthesis, Nucleotides, Guanine

Journal Title

Nucleic Acids Res

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0305-1048
1362-4962

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Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsorship
National Science Centre (UMO-2014/14/A/NZ1/00306)
National Research Foundation of Ukraine (2020.02/0028)
National Multidisciplinary Laboratory of Functional Nanomaterials (POIGT.02.02.00-00-025/09-00)
Foundation of Polish Science (TEAM TECH CORE FACILITY/2016-2/2)
Centre of Preclinical Research and Technology (POIG.02.02.00-14-024/08-00)