EIF4A2 explained

Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-II is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF4A2 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S . Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides. . Gene . 138 . 1–2 . 171–4 . 1994 . 8125298 . 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8 .
• Suzuki Y . Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library . Gene . 200 . 1–2 . 149–56 . 1997 . 9373149 . 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3 . vanc. Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K . Maruyama K . 3 . Suyama . Akira . Sugano . Sumio .
• Li W, Belsham GJ, Proud CG . Eukaryotic initiation factors 4A (eIF4A) and 4G (eIF4G) mutually interact in a 1:1 ratio in vivo . J. Biol. Chem. . 276 . 31 . 29111–5 . 2001 . 11408474 . 10.1074/jbc.C100284200 . free .
• Kyono K, Miyashiro M, Taguchi I . Human eukaryotic initiation factor 4AII associates with hepatitis C virus NS5B protein in vitro . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 292 . 3 . 659–66 . 2002 . 11922617 . 10.1006/bbrc.2002.6702 .
• Strausberg RL . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . vanc. Feingold EA . Grouse LH . 3 . Derge . JG . Klausner . RD . Collins . FS . Wagner . L . Shenmen . CM . Schuler . GD . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Gerhard DS . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . vanc. Wagner L . Feingold EA . 3 . Shenmen . CM . Grouse . LH . Schuler . G . Klein . SL . Old . S . Rasooly . R .
• Sarkar M . Upregulation of human mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 in intestinal epithelial cells is modulated by Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis . FEBS Lett. . 579 . 16 . 3449–60 . 2005 . 15946665 . 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.05.012 . vanc. Das S . Bandyopadhaya A . 3 . Ray . K . Chaudhuri . K . 25850943 . free .
• Feng P, Everly DN, Read GS . mRNA Decay during Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infections: Protein-Protein Interactions Involving the HSV Virion Host Shutoff Protein and Translation Factors eIF4H and eIF4A . J. Virol. . 79 . 15 . 9651–64 . 2005 . 16014927 . 10.1128/JVI.79.15.9651-9664.2005 . 1181552 .
• Cheyssac C . EIF4A2 is a positional candidate gene at the 3q27 locus linked to type 2 diabetes in French families . Diabetes . 55 . 4 . 1171–6 . 2006 . 16567544 . 10.2337/diabetes.55.04.06.db05-1298 . vanc. Dina C . Leprêtre F . 3 . Vasseur-Delannoy . V . Dechaume . A . Lobbens . S . Balkau . B . Ruiz . J . Charpentier . G . free .
• Ewing RM . Large-scale mapping of human protein–protein interactions by mass spectrometry . Mol. Syst. Biol. . 3 . 1. 89 . 2007 . 17353931 . 10.1038/msb4100134 . 1847948 . vanc. Chu P . Elisma F . 3 . Li . Hongyan . Taylor . Paul . Climie . Shane . McBroom-Cerajewski . Linda . Robinson . Mark D . O'Connor . Liam .

Notes and References

1. Sudo K, Takahashi E, Nakamura Y . Isolation and mapping of the human EIF4A2 gene homologous to the murine protein synthesis initiation factor 4A-II gene Eif4a2 . Cytogenet Cell Genet . 71 . 4 . 385–8 . Jan 1996 . 8521730 . 10.1159/000134145 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: EIF4A2 eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A, isoform 2.