Methylation of elongation factor 1A: where, who, and why?

JJ Hamey, MR Wilkins - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Eukaryotic elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) is an essential and highly conserved protein
involved in diverse cellular processes, including translation, cytoskeleton organisation …

The elongation factor eEF1A2 controls translation and actin dynamics in dendritic spines

MB Mendoza, S Gutierrez, R Ortiz, DF Moreno… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Synaptic plasticity involves structural modifications in dendritic spines that are modulated by
local protein synthesis and actin remodeling. Here, we investigated the molecular …

Elongation factor 1A1 regulates metabolic substrate preference in mammalian cells

RB Wilson, AM Kozlov, HH Tehrani… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Eukaryotic elongation factor 1A1 (EEF1A1) is canonically involved in protein synthesis, but
also has non-canonical functions in diverse cellular processes. Previously, we identified …

Overexpression of the elongation factor MtEF1A1 promotes salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula

L Xu, L Zhang, Y Liu, B Sod, M Li, T Yang, T Gao… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Elongation factor 1 A (EF1A), an essential regulator for protein
synthesis, has been reported to participate in abiotic stress responses and environmental …

Damaging de novo missense variants in EEF1A2 lead to a developmental and degenerative epileptic‐dyskinetic encephalopathy

GL Carvill, KL Helbig, CT Myers, M Scala… - Human …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heterozygous de novo variants in the eukaryotic elongation factor EEF1A2 have previously
been described in association with intellectual disability and epilepsy but never functionally …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous epitope tagging of eEF1A2 in mice reveals early embryonic expression of eEF1A2 and subcellular compartmentalisation of neuronal eEF1A1 …

FCJ Davies, GF Marshall, E Pegram, D Gadd… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2023 - Elsevier
All vertebrate species express two independently-encoded forms of translation elongation
factor eEF1A. In humans and mice eEF1A1 and eEF1A2 are 92% identical at the amino acid …

Mammalian translation elongation factor eEF1A2: X-ray structure and new features of GDP/GTP exchange mechanism in higher eukaryotes

T Crepin, VF Shalak, AD Yaremchuk… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic elongation factor eEF1A transits between the GTP-and GDP-bound
conformations during the ribosomal polypeptide chain elongation. eEF1A* GTP establishes …

Mesenchymal stem cells stabilize axonal transports for autophagic clearance of α-synuclein in parkinsonian models

SH Oh, SC Lee, DY Kim, HN Kim, JY Shin, BS Ye… - Stem Cells, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified two loci, SNCA and the microtubule (MT)-
associated protein tau, as common risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD). Specifically, α …

P21 activated kinase 4 binds translation elongation factor eEF1A1 to promote gastric cancer cell migration and invasion

X Li, J Li, F Li - Oncology Reports, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
P21 activated kinase 4 (PAK4), as an effector of Cdc42, playing important roles in regulating
the processes of cytoskeleton organization. PAK4 has been considered to be an oncogenic …

Raf kinases mediate the phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1A and regulate its stability in eukaryotic cells

C Sanges, C Scheuermann, RP Zahedi… - Cell death & …, 2012 - nature.com
We identified eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) Raf-mediated
phosphorylation sites and defined their role in the regulation of eEF1A half-life and of …