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CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
Volume 7, Issue 12, Pages 1234-1243Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400750
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translation initiation factor; elF4G; caspase; apoptosis; protein synthesis inhibition
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59803] Funding Source: Medline
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G (eIF4G), which has two homologs known as eIF4GI and eIF4GII, functions in a complex (eIF4F) which binds to the 5' cap structure of cellular mRNAs and facilitates binding of capped mRNA to 40S ribosomal subunits. Disruption of this complex in enterovirus-infected cells through eIF4G cleavage is known to block this step of translation initiation, thus leading to a drastic inhibition of cap-dependent translation. Here, we show that like eIF4GI, the newly identified homolog eIF4GII is cleaved during apoptosis in HeLa cells and can serve as a substrate for caspase 3. Proteolysis of both eIF4GI and eIF4GII occurs with similar kinetics and coincides with the profound translation inhibition observed in cisplatin-treated HeLa cells. Both eIF4GI and eIF4GII can be cleaved by caspase 3 with similar efficiency in vitro, however, eIF4GII is processed into additional fragments which destroy its core central domain and likely contributes to the shutoff of translation observed in apoptosis.
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