The gene encoding the elongation factor P protein is essential for viability and is required for protein synthesis - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1997 Dec 19;272(51):32254-9.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.272.51.32254.

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The gene encoding the elongation factor P protein is essential for viability and is required for protein synthesis

H Aoki et al. J Biol Chem. 1997.

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Abstract

Elongation factor P (EFP) is a protein that stimulates the peptidyltransferase activity of fully assembled 70 S prokaryotic ribosomes and enhances the synthesis of certain dipeptides initiated by N-formylmethionine. This reaction appears conserved throughout species and is promoted in eukaryotic cells by a homologous protein, eIF5A. Here we ask whether the Escherichia coli gene encoding EFP is essential for cell viability. A kanamycin resistance (KanR) gene was inserted near the N-terminal end of the efp gene and was cloned into a plasmid, pMAK705, that has a temperature-sensitive origin of replication. After transformation into a recA+ E. coli strain, temperature-sensitive mutants were isolated, and their chromosomal DNA was sequenced. Mutants containing the efp-KanR gene in the chromosome grew at 33 degrees C only in the presence of the wild-type copy of the efp gene in the pMAK705 plasmid and were unable to grow at 44 degrees C. Incorporation of various isotopes in vivo suggests that translation is impaired in the efp mutant at 44 degrees C. At 44 degrees C, mutant cells are severely defective in peptide-bond formation. We conclude that the efp gene is essential for cell viability and is required for protein synthesis.

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