Purification of the elongation factor Tu (EF‐Tu) from the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis
- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 136 (2) , 241-244
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1983.tb07733.x
Abstract
Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) was purified from S. platensis. By gel electrophoresis the MW of the purified protein apparently was 49,000, a value close to that reported for the EF-Tu isolated from a number of bacteria but higher than that reported for the protein isolated from Escherichia coli (43,000). Functionally, however, S. platensis EF-Tu may replace the E. coli protein in a protein-synthesizing system in vitro. In addition, its activity is affected by kirromycin, an antibiotic that specifically interacts with eubacterial EF-Tu.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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