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CELL
Volume 127, Issue 4, Pages 721-733Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.037
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The ribosomal elongation cycle describes a series of reactions prolonging the nascent poly-pepticle chain by one amino acid and driven by two universal elongation factors termed EF-Tu and EF-G in bacteria. Here we demonstrate that the extremely conserved LepA protein, present in all bacteria and mitochondria, is a third elongation factor required for accurate and efficient protein synthesis. LepA has the unique function of back-translocating post-translocational ribosomes, and the results suggest that it recognizes ribosomes after a defective translocation reaction and induces a back-translocation, thus giving EF-G a second chance to translocate the tRNAs correctly. We suggest renaming LepA as elongation factor 4 (EF4).
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