Interactions of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 with actin: A possible link between protein synthetic machinery and cytoskeleton
- 14 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 356 (1), 89-93
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(94)01239-3
Abstract
Eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (EF-2) was shown to bind to F-actin as assayed by co-sedimentation. In the presence of guanosine-5′-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTPγS) binding was increased fourfold. At saturation level a molar ratio of about 0. 12 EF-2 per F-actin (subunit) was observed. Our results suggest a single type of binding site with an apparent dissociation constant of 0.85 μM. The stoichiometry was independent of the filament length, and ADP-ribosylation had no effect on the binding. Experimental data indicated the involvement of SH-groups of both EF-2 and actin in the binding. The interaction EF-2 with F-actin appeared to be inhibited competitively by EF-1α and non-competitively by G-actin.Keywords
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