Valine 114 replacements in archaeal elongation factor 1 alpha enhanced its ability to interact with aminoacyl-tRNA and kirromycin.
Masullo M, Cantiello P, De Paola B, Fiengo A, Vitagliano L, Zagari A, Arcari P.
Masullo M, et al.
Biochemistry. 2002 Dec 10;41(49):14482-8. doi: 10.1021/bi026428n.
Biochemistry. 2002.
PMID: 12463746
This sequence is well-conserved among most of eukaryal and eubacterial counterparts, and in the three-dimensional structure of SsEF-1alpha, V114 is located in a hydrophobic pocket near the first GDP-binding consensus sequence G(13)XXXXGK[T,S] [Vitagliano, L., Masullo, M …
This sequence is well-conserved among most of eukaryal and eubacterial counterparts, and in the three-dimensional structure of SsEF-1alpha, …