Peptide Elongation Factor Tu |
| Chloroplast Elongation Factor Tu; EF-Tu; Protein Synthesis Elongation Factor Tu; eEF-Tu; EF Tu; Factor Tu, Elongation; eEF Tu |
| A protein found in bacteria and eukaryotic mitochondria which delivers aminoacyl-tRNA's to the A site of the ribosome. The aminoacyl-tRNA is first bound to a complex of elongation factor Tu containing a molecule of bound GTP. The resulting complex is then bound to the 70S initiation complex. Simultaneously the GTP is hydrolyzed and a Tu-GDP complex is released from the 70S ribosome. The Tu-GTP complex is regenerated from the Tu-GDP complex by the Ts elongation factor and GTP. EC 3.6.1.-. |
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