Elongation factor 2 from Artemia salina embryos and its affinity for ribosomes

Eur J Biochem. 1991 Aug 15;200(1):13-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb21042.x.

Abstract

Crude extracts from Artemia salina undeveloped embryos do not contain detectable elongation-factor-2 (EF2) kinase and endogenous ADP-ribosylating activities. Accordingly, EF2 purified from this source is an enzyme relatively free from phosphorylated and ADP-ribosylated forms. Endogenous ADP-ribosyltransferase activity appears only after purification of EF2. The affinities of EF2 and of ADP-ribosyl-EF2 for ribosomes from A. salina undeveloped embryos have been calculated by measuring the ability of the factors to inhibit the N-glycosidase activity of ricin on ribosomes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Artemia / enzymology
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases*
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Elongation Factor 2 Kinase
  • Gastrula / enzymology
  • Isoelectric Point
  • Peptide Elongation Factor 2
  • Peptide Elongation Factors / isolation & purification
  • Peptide Elongation Factors / metabolism*
  • Phosphorylation
  • Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases / metabolism
  • Protein Kinases / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Ribosomes / metabolism*
  • Sepharose / analogs & derivatives
  • Sepharose / metabolism

Substances

  • Peptide Elongation Factor 2
  • Peptide Elongation Factors
  • heparin-sepharose
  • Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose
  • Sepharose
  • Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases
  • Protein Kinases
  • Eef2k protein, rat
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases
  • Elongation Factor 2 Kinase