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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 266, Issue 7, 4099-4105, Mar, 1991

Characterization of a limited trypsin digestion form of eukaryotic elongation factor 1 alpha

TG Kinzy and WC Merrick
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

The involvement of the first 69 amino acids of eukaryotic elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) from rabbit reticulocyte in GTP and aminoacyl-tRNA binding has been analyzed by a variety of techniques. EF- 1 alpha was subjected to limited trypsin digestion, which cleaved predominantly at residues 36 and 69. A digested form of Escherichia coli EF-Tu, similar to the one used for this study, has been characterized by x-ray crystallography and is used as a structural model for EF-1 alpha. This form of EF-1 alpha bound E. coli Phe-tRNAPhe similar to the wild type protein, but lacked activity in phenylalanine polymerization with poly(U)-programmed ribosomes. These results were obtained regardless of whether or not loosely associated N-terminal peptides were removed by gel filtration chromatography. The digested EF- 1 alpha also shows reduced GTPase activity, but the activity is stimulated by both ribosomes and aminoacyl-tRNA. Binding of EF-1 alpha to the 80 S ribosome, as determined by association of reductively methylated protein through Sepharose 6B chromatography, is reduced approximately 7-fold for the limited digested form of the protein. Limited digested EF-1 alpha can, however, be photo-cross-linked with GTP and 3'-p-azido-GTP similar to intact EF-1 alpha. Chemical cross- linking with oxidized GTP, fluorosulfonylbenzoyl-GTP, or with trans- diaminedichloroplatinum(II) and GPT, shows a similar modification of both intact and limited digested EF-1 alpha. In order to further localize the modification site with the GTP reagents and assure that modification was not occurring in the first 69 amino acids, intact EF-1 alpha was modified with these same reagents. Limited trypsin digestion of modified protein indicates that none of these reagents cross-links GTP to the first 69 amino acids of EF-1 alpha, which includes the first GTP binding consensus element, GXXXXGK.
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