The translation initiation factor eIF2 is critical for protein synthesis initiation, and its regulation is central to the integrated stress response (ISR). eIF2 is a G protein, and the activity is regulated by its GDP or GTP-binding status, such that only GTP-bound eIF2 has high affinity for initiator methionyl tRNA. In the ISR, regulatory signaling reduces the availability of eIF2-GTP and so downregulates protein synthesis initiation in cells. Fluorescence spectroscopy can be used as an analytical tool to study protein-ligand interactions in vitro. Here we describe methods to purify eIF2 and assays of its activity, employing analogs of GDP, GTP, and methionyl initiator tRNA ligands to accurately measure their binding affinities.
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