Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Cryo-EM structure of human eIF5A-DHS complex reveals the molecular basis of hypusination-associated neurodegenerative disorders

  • Elżbieta Wątor,
  • Piotr Wilk,
  • Artur Biela,
  • Michał Rawski,
  • Krzysztof M. Zak,
  • Wieland Steinchen,
  • Gert Bange,
  • Sebastian Glatt,
  • Przemysław Grudnik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37305-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

Read online

eIF5A is the only protein known to contain hypusine. Here, the authors present the cryoEM structure of the eIF5A-DHS complex and provide mechanistic insights to understand the deoxyhypusination reaction and hypusination-related neurodegeneration.