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A Novel Inhibitor of Translation Initiation Factor eIF5B in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Ah-Ra Goh (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sunchon National University) ;
  • Yi-Na Kim (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sunchon National University) ;
  • Jae Hyeun Oh (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sunchon National University) ;
  • Sang Ki Choi (Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sunchon National University)
  • Received : 2024.04.08
  • Accepted : 2024.05.03
  • Published : 2024.06.28
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Abstract

The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF5B is a bacterial IF2 ortholog that plays an important role in ribosome joining and stabilization of the initiator tRNA on the AUG start codon during the initiation of translation. We identified the fluorophenyl oxazole derivative 2,2-dibromo-1-(2-(4-fluorophenyl)benzo[d]oxazol-5-yl)ethanone quinolinol as an inhibitor of fungal protein synthesis using an in vitro translation assay in a fungal system. Mutants resistant to this compound were isolated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and were demonstrated to contain amino acid substitutions in eIF5B that conferred the resistance. These results suggest that eIF5B is a target of potential antifungal compound and that mutation of eIF5B can confer resistance. Subsequent identification of 16 other mutants revealed that primary mutations clustered mainly on domain 2 of eIF5B and secondarily mainly on domain 4. Domain 2 has been implicated in the interaction with the small ribosomal subunit during initiation of translation. The tested translation inhibitor could act by weakening the functional contact between eIF5B and the ribosome complex. This data provides the basis for the development of a new family of antifungals.

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We are indebted to our colleagues K.Y. Lee in the KRICT for providing compound.

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