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Facts about Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A-1.
With syntenin SDCBP, functions as a regulator of p53/TP53 and p53/TP53-dependent apoptosis. Regulates also TNF- alpha-mediated apoptosis.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | EIF5A |
| Uniprot: | P63241 |
| Entrez: | 1984 |

| Belongs to: |
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| eIF-5A family |

eIF4D; eIF-4D; eIF5A; EIF-5A; EIF5A1; eIF-5A1; eIF-5A-1; eIF5AI; Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A isoform 1; eukaryotic initiation factor 5A; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A; eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A-1; MGC104255; MGC99547; Rev-binding Factor
Mass (kDA):
16.832 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17p13.1 |
| Sequence: | 17; NC_000017.11 (7306999..7312463) |
Expressed in umbilical vein endothelial cells and several cancer cell lines (at protein level).
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Endoplasmic reticulum membrane; Peripheral membrane protein; Cytoplasmic side. Nucleus, nuclear pore complex. Hypusine modification promotes the nuclear export and cytoplasmic localization and there was a dynamic shift in the localization from predominantly cytoplasmic to primarily nuclear under apoptotic inducing conditions.





PMID: 2492279 by Smit-Mcbride Z., et al. Sequence determination and cDNA cloning of eukaryotic initiation factor 4D, the hypusine-containing protein.
PMID: 8253832 by Ruhl M., et al. Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A is a cellular target of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev activation domain mediating trans- activation.