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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages 3142-3156Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.12.3142
Keywords
cap-binding protein; eIF4E localization; initiation factor; shuttling protein; transport
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The eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) plays an important role in the control of cell growth. eIF4E binds to the mRNA 5' cap structure m(7)GpppN (where N is any nucleotide), and promotes ribosome binding to the mRNA in the cytoplasm. However, a fraction of eIF4E localizes to the nucleus. Here we describe the cloning and functional characterization of a new eIF4E-binding protein, referred to as 4E-T (eIF4E-Transporter) We demonstrate that 4E-T is a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein that contains an eIF4E-binding site, one bipartite nuclear localization signal and two leucine-rich nuclear export signals. eIF4E forms a complex with the importin alpha beta heterodimer only in the presence of 4E-T. Overexpression of wild-type 4E-T, but not of a mutant defective for eIF4E binding, causes the nuclear accumulation of HA-eIF4E in cells treated with leptomycin B. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the novel nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein 4E-T mediates the nuclear import of eIF4E via the importin alpha beta pathway by a piggy-back mechanism.
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