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. 1984 May;3(5):1109–1113. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb01937.x

The primary structure of elongation factor EF-1 alpha from the brine shrimp Artemia.

F J van Hemert, R Amons, W J Pluijms, H van Ormondt, W Möller
PMCID: PMC557481  PMID: 6203745

Abstract

cDNA as well as amino acid sequencing has revealed the complete primary structure of elongation factor EF-1 alpha from the brine shrimp Artemia. A comparison with the published sequences of bacterial EF-Tu, mitochondrial EF-Tu and chloroplastic EF-Tu shows that distinct areas of these polypeptide chains are conserved in evolution. The evolutionary distance between prokaryotic and eukaryotic types of EF-Tu is larger than among bacterial and organellar EF- Tus . A number of regions present in both EF-Tu and EF-G from Escherichia coli are also found in EF-1 alpha from Artemia.

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