Medicine:EIF5A

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Short description: Protein-coding gene in humans


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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF5A gene.[1]

It is the only known protein to contain the unusual amino acid hypusine [Nε-(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)-lysine], which is synthesized on eIF5A at a specific lysine residue from the polyamine spermidine by two catalytic steps.[2]

EF-P is the bacterial homolog of eIF5A, which is modified post-translationally in a similar but distinct way.[3][4] Both proteins are believed to catalyze peptide bond formation and help resolve ribosomal stalls, making them elongation factors despite the "initiation factor" name originally assigned.[5]

Clinical relevance

Germline deleterious heterozygous EIF5A variants cause Faundes-Banka syndrome.[6][7] This rare human disorder is characterized by variable combinations of developmental delay, microcephaly, micrognathia and dysmorphic features.

References

  1. "The eukaryotic cofactor for the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) rev protein, eIF-5A, maps to chromosome 17p12-p13: three eIF-5A pseudogenes map to 10q23.3, 17q25, and 19q13.2". Genomics 25 (3): 749–752. February 1995. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(95)80025-H. PMID 7759117. 
  2. "Posttranslational synthesis of hypusine: evolutionary progression and specificity of the hypusine modification". Amino Acids 33 (2): 341–350. August 2007. doi:10.1007/s00726-007-0525-0. PMID 17476569. 
  3. "Post-translational modification by β-lysylation is required for activity of Escherichia coli elongation factor P (EF-P)". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 (4): 2579–2590. January 2012. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.309633. PMID 22128152. 
  4. "Lys34 of translation elongation factor EF-P is hydroxylated by YfcM". Nature Chemical Biology 8 (8): 695–697. August 2012. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1001. PMID 22706199. 
  5. "eIF5A and EF-P: two unique translation factors are now traveling the same road". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. RNA 5 (2): 209–222. 2013. doi:10.1002/wrna.1211. PMID 24402910. 
  6. "Impaired eIF5A function causes a Mendelian disorder that is partially rescued in model systems by spermidine". Nature Communications 12 (1): 833. February 2021. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21053-2. PMID 33547280. Bibcode2021NatCo..12..833F. 
  7. "OMIM Entry - # 619376 - FAUNDES-BANKA SYNDROME; FABAS". https://omim.org/entry/619376. 

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