EIF5B

EIF5B
Identifiers
Aliases EIF5B, IF2, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5B
External IDs MGI: 2441772 HomoloGene: 134613 GeneCards: EIF5B
RNA expression pattern




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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

9669

226982

Ensembl

ENSG00000158417

ENSMUSG00000026083

UniProt

O60841

Q05D44

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_015904

NM_198303

RefSeq (protein)

NP_056988.3

NP_938045.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 99.34 – 99.4 Mb Chr 1: 38 – 38.06 Mb
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF5B gene.[3][4][5]

Accurate initiation of translation in eukaryotes is complex and requires many factors, some of which are composed of multiple subunits. The process is simpler in prokaryotes which have only three initiation factors (IF1, IF2, IF3). Two of these factors are conserved in eukaryotes: the homolog of IF1 is eIF1A and the homolog of IF2 is eIF5B. This gene encodes eIF5B. Factors eIF1A and eIF5B interact on the ribosome along with other initiation factors and GTP to position the initiation methionine tRNA on the start codon of the mRNA so that translation initiates accurately.[5]

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