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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

Quantifying the Binding of Fluorescently Labeled Guanine Nucleotides and Initiator tRNA to Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 2.

Martin D Jennings, Graham D Pavitt

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Martin D JenningsDivision of Molecular and Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6173-0988
Graham D PavittDivision of Molecular and Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. graham.pavitt@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8593-2418
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S014667/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The translation initiation factor eIF2 is critical for protein synthesis initiation, and its regulation is central to the integrated stress response (ISR). eIF2 is a G protein, and the activity is regulated by its GDP or GTP-binding status, such that only GTP-bound eIF2 has high affinity for initiator methionyl tRNA. In the ISR, regulatory signaling reduces the availability of eIF2-GTP and so downregulates protein synthesis initiation in cells. Fluorescence spectroscopy can be used as an analytical tool to study protein-ligand interactions in vitro. Here we describe methods to purify eIF2 and assays of its activity, employing analogs of GDP, GTP, and methionyl initiator tRNA ligands to accurately measure their binding affinities.

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Prokaryotic Initiation Factor-2RNA, Transfer, MetEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Guanine NucleotidesLigandsProtein BindingEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Guanine NucleotidesLigandsProkaryotic Initiation Factor-2RNA, Transfer, MeteIF2Fluorescence spectroscopyGDPGTPMet–tRNAiTranslation initiation

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PMID35171475
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