“…They range from protein synthesis (Thornton et al, 2003), oncogenic transformation (Tatsuka et al, 1992), cell proliferation (Gangwani et al, 1998), transporting mRNA (Liu et al, 2002), bundling of F-actin (Gross and Kinzy, 2007), microtubule dynamics (Moore et al, 1998), conferring susceptibility to cell death induced by palmitate overload (Borradaile et al, 2006) or by hydrogen peroxide (Chen et al, 2000), and also conferring cytoprotection against ER-stress-induced apoptosis (Talapatra et al, 2002). EF1A1 expression is elevated in melanomas and tumors (Thornton et al, 2003) and correlates with metastasis (Taniguchi et al, 1992) and oncogenic transformation (Tatsuka et al, 1992).…”