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SUBMITTER: Lin KY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177315 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Kai Ying KY Nag Nabanita N Pestova Tatyana V TV Marintchev Assen A
Biochemistry 20180926 40
Eukaryotic translation initiation is a multistep process requiring a number of eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs). Two GTPases play key roles in the process. eIF2 brings the initiator Met-tRNA<sub>i</sub> to the preinitiation complex (PIC). Upon start codon selection and GTP hydrolysis promoted by the GTPase-activating protein (GAP) eIF5, eIF2-GDP is displaced from Met-tRNA<sub>i</sub> by eIF5B-GTP and is released in complex with eIF5. eIF5B promotes ribosomal subunit joining, with ...[more]