“…Indeed eIF5 may change position within the complex between scanning and AUG recognition steps prior to its release from initiating ribosomes with eIF2-GDP (Obayashi et al, 2017). eIF5 binds to both eIF2β and γ subunits (Alone & Dever, 2006;Asano, Krishnamoorthy, Phan, Pavitt, & Hinnebusch, 1999;Das, Maiti, Das, & Maitra, 1997;Jennings & Pavitt, 2010a) and with equal affinity for both eIF2-GDP and TC forms (Algire et al, 2005) (Figure 3b). Hence eIF2-GDP is released from the PIC in complex with eIF5 (Singh et al, 2006) Although eIF2 binds GDP more tightly than GTP (Erickson & Hannig, 1996;Jennings et al, 2016), eIF5 further enhances the affinity of yeast eIF2 for GDP and therefore prevents premature eIF2B-independent release of GDP from eIF2γ (Jennings et al, 2016;Jennings & Pavitt, 2010b).…”