IV. Interactions with eRF3
Interactions between eRF1 and eRF3
occur in domain 3 of the protein from residues
. An intact domain 3 is crucial for this
interaction5.
, one of the central beta strands, is responsible for stabilizing the
domain. As a result, beta-15 is critical for
the interaction between eRF1 and eRF32.
In yeast, another key binding site for eRF3
occurs on the extreme C terminus of the
protein. However, the residues comprising the
C terminus of eRF1 in human eRF1 are
disordered and as such the C terminus has been
demonstrated to be unnecessary for human eRF1
and eRF3 interactions2.
V. References
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Ritchie DW, Fullerton G, Stansfield I. 2000.
Terminating eukaryote translation: Domain 1 of
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Das AK, Webb HM, Evans DR, Tuite MF,
Hemmings BA, Barford D. 2000. The crystal
structure of human eukaryotic release factor
eRF1--Mechanism of stop codon recognition
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Berninghausen O, Becker T, Beckmann R. 2015.
Structure of a human translation termination
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PM, Alkalaeva EZ, Yu L, Frolova, Kisselev
LL. 2006. Influence of individual domains of
the translation termination factor eRF1 on
induction of GTPase activity of the
translation termination factor eRF3. Molecular
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Polypeptide release factors in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes: same function, different
structure. Structure. 10:8-9.
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Ehrenberg M. 2000. Mimicry grasps reality in
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A, Kisselev L. 2002. Highly conserved NIKS
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eRF1. RNA. 8:129-136.
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