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In 1971, the amino acid known as hypusine was discovered in free form in bovine brain (Shiba et al., 1972). The structure of hypusine was established and confirmed as N6-(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)-2, 6-diamino hexanoic acid (Shiba et al., 1982; Tice and Ganem, 1983). Since its discovery, hypusine has been found as a free amino acid (Nakajima et al., 1971) and bound to protein (Sano et al., 1984). Protein-bound hypusine primarily occurred in a protein, M ≃ 18, 000, which was originally observed in lectin-stimulated lymphocytes and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells (Park et al., 1981; Cooper et al, 1982). The synthesis of protein-bound hypusine coincides with an increase in protein synthesis (Cooper et al., 1982) and this biochemical process was observed in several mammalian cell lines (Chen, 1983; Torrelio et al., 1984). Because of the ubiquity of the hypusine modification in an Mr ≃ 18, 000 protein and its conservation among eukaryotes (Paric et al., 1984a; Gordon et al., 1987), the biophysical characteristics of the protein were compared to those of known eukaryotic protein translation initiation factors. The MΓ ≃ 18, 000 protein modified by hypusine was identified as the putative eukaryotic protein synthesis initiation factor eIF-4D (Cooper et al., 1983).
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Murphey, R.J., Tome, M.E., Gerner, E.W. (1988). Hypusine Biosynthesis in Protein and its Biological Consequences. In: Zappia, V., Pegg, A.E. (eds) Progress in Polyamine Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 250. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5637-0_39
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