Deschamps S, Morales J, Mazabraud A, le Maire M, Denis H, Brown D D
Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
J Cell Biol. 1991 Sep;114(6):1109-11. doi: 10.1083/jcb.114.6.1109.
We have purified and partially sequenced the EF-1 alpha protein from Xenopus laevis oocytes (EF-1 alpha O). We show that the two cDNA clones isolated by Coppared et al. (Coppard, N. J., K. Poulsen, H. O. Madsen, J. Frydenberg, and B. F. C. Clark. 1991. J. Cell Biol. 112:237-243) do not encode 42Sp50, as claimed by these authors, but two very similar forms of EF-1 alpha O (EF-1 alpha O and EF-1 alpha O1). 42Sp50 is the major protein component of a 42S nucleoprotein particle that is very abundant in previtellogenic oocytes of X. laevis, 42Sp50 differs from EF-1 alpha O not only by its amino acid sequence, but also by several properties already reported. In particular, 42Sp50 has a low EF-1 alpha activity. It is distributed uniformly in the cytoplasm of previtellogenic oocytes, in contrast to EF-1 alpha O which is concentrated in a small region of the cytoplasm, known as the mitochondrial mass or Balbiani body.
我们已经从非洲爪蟾卵母细胞中纯化了延伸因子1α蛋白(EF-1αO)并对其进行了部分测序。我们发现,Coppared等人(Coppard, N. J., K. Poulsen, H. O. Madsen, J. Frydenberg, and B. F. C. Clark. 1991. J. Cell Biol. 112:237-243)分离得到的两个cDNA克隆并不像这些作者所声称的那样编码42Sp50,而是编码两种非常相似的EF-1αO形式(EF-1αO和EF-1αO1)。42Sp50是一种42S核蛋白颗粒的主要蛋白质成分,在非洲爪蟾的卵黄生成前卵母细胞中非常丰富,42Sp50不仅在氨基酸序列上与EF-1αO不同,而且在一些已报道的特性上也有所不同。特别是,42Sp50具有较低的EF-1α活性。它均匀地分布在卵黄生成前卵母细胞的细胞质中,与之形成对比的是,EF-1αO集中在细胞质的一个小区域,即线粒体团或巴尔比亚尼小体。