Catalytic epsilon subunit of the translation initiation factor eIF2B; eIF2B is the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor for eIF2; activity subsequently regulated by phosphorylated eIF2; first identified as a negative regulator of GCN4 expression; mutations in human ortholog cause fatal brain disease childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (CACH); forms cytoplasmic foci upon DNA replication stress