As such be aware that when eIF4G is spoken of in this article, the statements will apply to many variants but may not hold for all, and when comparing among species comparisons are relative to human eIF4G 1.
EIF4G |
Poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) binds to a long poly(A) tail and mediates the interaction between EIF4E and EIF4G which encourages the initiation of translation.