The 39-kilodalton subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 is essential for the complex's integrity and for cell viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Molecular and Cellular Biology
T NarandaJ W Hershey

Abstract

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae comprises about eight polypeptides and plays a central role in the binding of methionyl-tRNAi and mRNA to the 40S ribosomal subunit. The fourth largest subunit, eIF3-p39, was gel purified, and a 12-amino-acid tryptic peptide was sequenced, enabling the cloning of the TIF34 gene. TIF34 encodes a 38,753-Da protein that corresponds to eIF3-p39 in size and antigenicity. Disruption of TIF34 is lethal, and depletion of eIF3-p39 by glucose repression of TIF34 expressed from a GAL promoter results in cessation of cell growth. As eIF3-p39 levels fall, polysomes become smaller, indicating a role for eIF3-p39 in the initiation phase of protein synthesis. Unexpectedly, depletion results in degradation of all of the subunit proteins of eIF3 at a rate much faster than the normal turnover rates of these proteins. eIF3-p39 has 46% sequence identity with the p36 subunit of human eIF3. Both proteins are members of the WD-repeat family of proteins, possessing five to seven repeat elements. Taken together, the results indicate that eIF3-p39 plays an important, although not necessarily direct, role in the initiation phase of protein synthesis and suggest that it...Continue Reading

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