EIF4E

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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E
PDB rendering based on 1ej1.
Available structures: 1ej1, 1ej4, 1ejh, 1ipb, 1ipc, 1l8b, 1wkw, 2gpq
Identifiers
Symbol(s)	EIF4E; CBP; EIF4F; EIF4E1; EIF4EL1; MGC111573
External IDs	OMIM: 133440 MGI: 95305 HomoloGene: 84699
Gene ontology Molecular Function: • RNA cap binding • translation initiation factor activity • protein binding Cellular Component: • cytoplasm • eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4F complex Biological Process: • translational initiation • regulation of translation
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
	Human	Mouse
Entrez	1977	13684
Ensembl	ENSG00000151247	n/a
Uniprot	P06730	n/a
Refseq	NM_001968 (mRNA) NP_001959 (protein)	NM_007917 (mRNA) NP_031943 (protein)
Location	Chr 4: 100.02 - 100.07 Mb	n/a
Pubmed search	[1]	[2]

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E, also known as EIF4E, is a human protein.

[edit] See also

• Eukaryotic initiation factors

[edit] External links

• Cap-dependent translation initiation from Nature Reviews Microbiology. A good image and overview of the function of initiation factors

[edit] Further reading

v • d • e translation --> Initiation factors: Eukaryotic eIF1 (eIF1A), eIF-2, eIF3, eIF4A, eIF4B, eIF4E, eIF4G, eIF4F, eIF5