PROSITE documentation PDOC00905Initiation factor 2 signature
Initiation factor 2 (IF-2) (gene infB) [1] is one of the three factors required for the initiation of protein biosynthesis in bacteria. IF-2 promotes the GTP-dependent binding of the initiator tRNA to the small subunit of the ribosome. IF-2 is a protein of about 70 to 95 Kd which contains a central GTP-binding domain flanked by a highly variable N-terminal domain and a more conserved C-terminal domain.
Bacterial IF-2 is structurally and functionally related to eukaryotic mitochondrial IF-2 (IF-2(mt)) [2] as well as to algal and plants chloroplast IF-2 (IF-2(chl)). Both IF-2(mt) and IF-2(chl) are encoded by nuclear genes and are produced as precursor proteins with a transit peptide. An exception are red algae where IF-2(chl) is encoded by the plastid genome [3].
As a signature pattern, we selected a conserved region in the C-terminal section of these proteins.
Note:Proteins belonging to this family also contain a copy of the ATP/GTP- binding motif 'A' (P-loop) (see <PDOC00017>).
Last update:April 2006 / Pattern revised.
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| 1 | Authors | Laalami S. Sacerdot C. Vachon G. Mortensen K. Sperling-Petersen H.U. Cenatiempo Y. Grunberg-Manago M. |
| Title | Structural and functional domains of E coli initiation factor IF2. | |
| Source | Biochimie 73:1557-1566(1991). | |
| PubMed ID | 1805969 |
| 2 | Authors | Ma L. Spremulli L.L. |
| Title | Cloning and sequence analysis of the human mitochondrial translational initiation factor 2 cDNA. | |
| Source | J. Biol. Chem. 270:1859-1865(1995). | |
| PubMed ID | 7829522 |
| 3 | Authors | Kostrzewa M. Zetsche K. |
| Title | Organization of plastid-encoded ATPase genes and flanking regions including homologues of infB and tsf in the thermophilic red alga Galdieria sulphuraria. | |
| Source | Plant Mol. Biol. 23:67-76(1993). | |
| PubMed ID | 8219057 |
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