MRPL18

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Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18

Identifiers

MRPL18; HSPC071; MRP-L18

External IDs

MGI: 1914931 HomoloGene: 8566

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• structural constituent of ribosome • translation regulator activity
Cellular Component:	• intracellular • mitochondrion • mitochondrial ribosome • ribosome
Biological Process:	• translation

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Refseq

NM_014161 (mRNA)
NP_054880 (protein)

NM_026310 (mRNA)
NP_080586 (protein)

Location

Chr 6: 160.13 - 160.14 Mb

Chr 17: 12.75 - 12.76 Mb

Pubmed search

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Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18, also known as MRPL18, is a human gene.^[1]

Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomal proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and help in protein synthesis within the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) consist of a small 28S subunit and a large 39S subunit. They have an estimated 75% protein to rRNA composition compared to prokaryotic ribosomes, where this ratio is reversed. Another difference between mammalian mitoribosomes and prokaryotic ribosomes is that the latter contain a 5S rRNA. Among different species, the proteins comprising the mitoribosome differ greatly in sequence, and sometimes in biochemical properties, which prevents easy recognition by sequence homology. This gene encodes a 39S subunit protein that belongs to the L18P ribosomal protein family. Three polymorphic sites exist in this gene, one of which is three nt in length which causes an extra aa near the N-terminus.^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Entrez Gene: MRPL18 mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18.

[edit] Further reading

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Zhang Z, Gerstein M (2003). "Identification and characterization of over 100 mitochondrial ribosomal protein pseudogenes in the human genome.". Genomics 81 (5): 468-80. PMID 12706105.
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121-7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.
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