Complex of three heterogeneous polypeptide chains, that form a ternary complex with initiator methionyl-tRNA and GTP. This ternary complex binds to free 40S subunit, which subsequently binds the 5' end of mRNA. (Gene Ontology, GO_0005850)
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20 genes co-occuring with the biological term eif2 in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.