Eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1

Eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1
Identifiers
Symbols EEF1A1; CCS-3; CCS3; EE1A1; EEF-1; EEF1A; EF-Tu; EF1A; FLJ25721; GRAF-1EF; HNGC:16303; LENG7; MGC102687; MGC131894; MGC16224; PTI1; eEF1A-1
External IDs OMIM130590 MGI1096881 HomoloGene68181 GeneCards: EEF1A1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 1915 13627
Ensembl ENSG00000156508 ENSMUSG00000037742
UniProt P68104 Q3TII3
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001402 NM_010106
RefSeq (protein) NP_001393 NP_034236
Location (UCSC) Chr 6:
74.23 – 74.23 Mb
Chr 9:
78.26 – 78.27 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Elongation factor 1-alpha 1 (eEF1a1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EEF1A1 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes an isoform of the alpha subunit of the elongation factor-1 complex, which is responsible for the enzymatic delivery of aminoacyl tRNAs to the ribosome. This isoform (alpha 1) is expressed in brain, placenta, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas, and the other isoform (alpha 2) is expressed in brain, heart and skeletal muscle. This isoform is identified as an autoantigen in 66% of patients with Felty's syndrome. This gene has been found to have multiple copies on many chromosomes, some of which, if not all, represent different pseudogenes.[3]

In addition to its role in translation, eEF1a has been shown to be play a central role in the nuclear export of proteins. VHL, PABP1 and other proteins containing a TD-NEM (Transcription Dependent Nuclear Export Motif) are exported by eEF1a in a manner that is dependent on ongoing RNA polymerase II (RNA PolII)-dependent transcription.[4][5]

Interactions

Eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1 has been shown to interact with PLCG1.[6]

References

  1. ^ Lund A, Knudsen SM, Vissing H, Clark B, Tommerup N (Jan 1997). "Assignment of human elongation factor 1alpha genes: EEF1A maps to chromosome 6q14 and EEF1A2 to 20q13.3". Genomics 36 (2): 359–61. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0475. PMID 8812466. 
  2. ^ Wende H, Volz A, Ziegler A (Sep 2000). "Extensive gene duplications and a large inversion characterize the human leukocyte receptor cluster". Immunogenetics 51 (8-9): 703–13. doi:10.1007/s002510000187. PMID 10941842. 
  3. ^ "Entrez Gene: EEF1A1 eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=1915. 
  4. ^ Lee S, Neumann M, Stearman R, Stauber R, Pause A, Pavlakis GN, Klausner RD. (1999). "Transcription-dependent nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking is required for the function of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein.". Mol Cell Biol. 19 (2): 1486–97. PMC 116077. PMID 9891082. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=116077. 
  5. ^ Khacho M, Mekhail K, Pilon-Larose K, Pause A, Côté J, Lee S. (2008). "eEF1A is a novel component of the mammalian nuclear protein export machinery.". Mol Biol Cell 19 (12): 5296–308. doi:10.1091/mbc.E08-06-0562. PMC 2592675. PMID 18799616. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2592675. 
  6. ^ Chang, Jong-Soo; Seok Heon, Kwon Taeg-Kyu, Min Do Sik, Ahn Bong-Hyun, Lee Young Han, Suh Ju-Won, Kim Jong-Woo, Iwashita Shintaro, Omori Akira, Ichinose Sachiyo, Numata Osamu, Seo Jeong-Kon, Oh Yong-Seok, Suh Pann-Ghill (May. 2002). "Interaction of elongation factor-1alpha and pleckstrin homology domain of phospholipase C-gamma 1 with activating its activity". J. Biol. Chem. (United States) 277 (22): 19697–702. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111206200. ISSN 0021-9258. PMID 11886851. 

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