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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA. 2020 May 4;11(6):e1597. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1597

Table 1.

Phosphorylation of translation initiation factors.

Initiation factor Kinase System Stimulus Outcome Reference
eIF2- subunit α GCN2 Arabidopsis, tobacco Herbicide, stress Lageix et al., 2008;
Zhang et al., 2008
eIF2- subunit β TOR Arabidopsis Cell Culture Sucrose van Leene et al., 2019
eIF2B- subunit δ TOR Arabidopsis, Arabidopsis Cell Culture Sucrose Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013;
van Leene et al., 2019
eIF3- subunit b Arabidopsis Darkness, high CO2 Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013;
Choudhary et al., 2015
eIF3- subunit c CK2 In vitro, Arabidopsis Dennis & Browning, 2009;
Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013;
Choudhary et al., 2015
eIF3- subunit d Arabidopsis Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013
eIF3- subunit h TOR-S6K1 Arabidopsis Auxin increased translation of uORF containing transcripts Schepetilnikov et al., 2013
eIF3- subunit i BRI1 in-vitro unknown Ehsan et al., 2005
eIF4A CDKA In vitro Darkness inactive eIF4A In vitro/ unknown In vivo Bush et al., 2016;
Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013
eIF4B CK2, TOR In vitro, Arabidopsis Cell Culture Sucrose High CO2 Gallie et al., 1997;
Dennis & Browning, 2009;
van Leene et al., 2019;
Choudhary et al., 2015
Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013;
eIF4E SnRK1 In vitro Bruns et al., 2019
eIF4G TOR Arabidopsis Cell Culture Sucrose Darkness van Leene et al., 2019;
Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013
eIFiso4E SnRK1 In vitro Bruns et al., 2019
eIFiso4G SnRK1 Maize Hypoxia Regulation of core hypoxia gene expression Cho et al., 2019;
Choudhary et al., 2015
eIF5 CK2 In vitro, Arabidopsis Dennis & Browning, 2009;
Boex-Fontvieille et al., 2013;
Choudhary et al., 2015
eIF6 TOR Arabidopsis Cell Culture Sucrose van Leene et al., 2019

The table emphasizes events with a known stimulus, outcome or kinase.