Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF5 gene.[5][6]

EIF5 is a GTPase-activating protein.[7]


References

  1. ^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000100664Ensembl, May 2017
  2. ^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000021282Ensembl, May 2017
  3. ^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ Si K, Das K, Maitra U (Aug 1996). "Characterization of multiple mRNAs that encode mammalian translation initiation factor 5 (eIF-5)". J Biol Chem. 271 (28): 16934–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.28.16934. PMID 8663286.
  6. ^ "Entrez Gene: EIF5 eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5".
  7. ^ Das S, Ghosh R, Maitra U (March 2001). "Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5 functions as a GTPase-activating protein". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (9): 6720–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.M008863200. PMID 11092890.

External links

  • Cap-dependent translation initiation from Nature Reviews Microbiology. A good image and overview of the function of initiation factors
  • PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5 (EIF5)

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