Mouse anti-Human/Mouse/Rat sapiens (Human) EIF2B3 Monoclonal Antibody

Function

Acts as a component of the translation initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) complex, which catalyzes the exchange of GDP for GTP on the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2) complex gamma subunit (PubMed:25858979, PubMed:27023709, PubMed:31048492). Its guanine nucleotide exchange factor activity is repressed when bound to eIF2 complex phosphorylated on the alpha subunit, thereby limiting the amount of methionyl-initiator methionine tRNA available to the ribosome and consequently global translation is repressed (PubMed:25858979, PubMed:31048492)

Subcellular Location

Cytoplasm, cytosol

Disease Association

Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter 3 (VWM3) : An autosomal recessive brain disease characterized by neurological features including progressive cerebellar ataxia, spasticity, and cognitive deficits. Brain imaging shows abnormal white matter that vanishes over time and is replaced by cerebrospinal fluid. Disease severity ranges from fatal infantile forms to adult forms without neurological deterioration. The disease is progressive with, in most individuals, additional episodes of rapid deterioration following febrile infections or minor head trauma. Death may occurs after a variable period after disease onset, usually following an episode of fever and coma. A subset of affected females with milder forms of the disease who survive to adolescence exhibit ovarian dysfunction. This variant of the disorder is called ovarioleukodystrophy. [The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry]

Subunit

Component of the translation initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) complex which is a heterodecamer of two sets of five different subunits: alpha, beta, gamma, delta and epsilon. Subunits alpha, beta and delta comprise a regulatory subcomplex and subunits epsilon and gamma comprise a catalytic subcomplex (PubMed:25858979, PubMed:27023709, PubMed:31048492). Within the complex, the hexameric regulatory complex resides at the center, with the two heterodimeric catalytic subcomplexes bound on opposite sides (PubMed:31048492)

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