Translational inhibition by eIF‐2‐phospholipid complex in mammalian cell‐free systems
- 3 July 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 250 (2) , 523-528
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(89)80789-6
Abstract
The polypeptide chain initiation factor 2 (eIF-2) binds phospholipid (PL) and becomes a potent inhibitor of translation in hemin-supplemented reticulocyte lysates [De Haro et al. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 6711–6715]. This binding is independent of calcium ions and seems to be specific for phosphatidylinositol or phosphatidylserine; phosphatidic and arachidonic acids are inactive. Like α-subunit-phosphorylated eIF-2, eIF-2·PL traps GEF in a non-dissociable eIF-2·PL·GEF complex whereby GEF is no longer able to recycle. Initiation is inhibited when no free GEF is available. Translational inhibition by eIF-2·PL is rescued by equimolar amounts of eIF-2·GEF. On the basis of this stoichiometry, we have estimated that reticulocyte lysates contain about 60 pmol of GEF/ml (60 nM) eIF-2·PL also inhibits translation in cell-free mouse liver extracts and this inhibition is prevented by reticulocyte eIF-2·GEF suggesting that GEF also functions in liver. However, the eIF-2·PL complex does not affect translation in such non-mammalian eukaryotic systems as wheat germ and Drosophila embryos.Keywords
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