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A legendary country containing seven wonderful Indian cities, supposed by explorers of the sixteenth century to be located either in Florida or Northern Mexico. The legend originated from the story of the flight of a Portuguese archbishop, who during the conquest of Spain by the Arabs escaped to the Cape de Verde Islands, and founded seven cities. Numerous, and in nearly every instance fatal, expeditions were sent in search of these mythical cities. That of Panfilo de Narvaez, of 1527 to Florida was especially disastrous.
By John Franklin Jameson
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EF 1H
- Peptide elongation factor 1 multisubunit protein that responsible GTP-dependent binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs eukaryotic ribosomes. alpha 1alpha) binds tRNA transfers it ribosome in a process linked to GTP hydrolysis. The beta and delta subunits (1beta, EF-1delta) are involved exchanging GDP for GTP. gamma subunit (1gamma) is structural component.