MRPL18

Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 3J7Y​
Identifiers
Symbols	MRPL18 ; HSPC071; L18mt; MRP-L18
External IDs	OMIM: 611831 MGI: 1914931 HomoloGene: 8566 GeneCards: MRPL18 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • structural constituent of ribosome • 5S rRNA binding Cellular component • extracellular space • mitochondrion • mitochondrial inner membrane • mitochondrial ribosome Biological process • translation • organelle organization • mitochondrial translation • rRNA import into mitochondrion • mitochondrial translational initiation • mitochondrial translational elongation • mitochondrial translational termination Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	29074	67681
Ensembl	ENSG00000112110	ENSMUSG00000057388
UniProt	Q9H0U6	Q9CQL5
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_014161	NM_026310
RefSeq (protein)	NP_054880	NP_080586
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 159.79 – 159.8 Mb	Chr 17: 12.91 – 12.92 Mb
PubMed search

39S ribosomal protein L18, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPL18 gene.^[1][2][3]

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.^[3]

References

1. Zhang QH, Ye M, Wu XY, Ren SX, Zhao M, Zhao CJ, Fu G, Shen Y, Fan HY, Lu G, Zhong M, Xu XR, Han ZG, Zhang JW, Tao J, Huang QH, Zhou J, Hu GX, Gu J, Chen SJ, Chen Z (Nov 2000). "Cloning and functional analysis of cDNAs with open reading frames for 300 previously undefined genes expressed in CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells". Genome Res 10 (10): 1546–60. doi:10.1101/gr.140200. PMC 310934. PMID 11042152.
2. Koc EC, Burkhart W, Blackburn K, Moyer MB, Schlatzer DM, Moseley A, Spremulli LL (Nov 2001). "The large subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome. Analysis of the complement of ribosomal proteins present". J Biol Chem 276 (47): 43958–69. doi:10.1074/jbc.M106510200. PMID 11551941.
3. "Entrez Gene: MRPL18 mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18".

Further reading

• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (2001). "DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination.". Genome Res. 10 (11): 1788–95. doi:10.1101/gr.143000. PMC 310948. PMID 11076863.
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, et al. (2001). "Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs.". Genome Res. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.GR1547R. PMC 311072. PMID 11230166.
• Kenmochi N, Suzuki T, Uechi T, et al. (2001). "The human mitochondrial ribosomal protein genes: mapping of 54 genes to the chromosomes and implications for human disorders.". Genomics 77 (1-2): 65–70. doi:10.1006/geno.2001.6622. PMID 11543634.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Zhang Z, Gerstein M (2003). "Identification and characterization of over 100 mitochondrial ribosomal protein pseudogenes in the human genome.". Genomics 81 (5): 468–80. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00004-1. 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. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W, et al. (2004). "From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline.". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2136–44. doi:10.1101/gr.2576704. PMC 528930. PMID 15489336.
• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I, et al. (2006). "The LIFEdb database in 2006.". Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (Database issue): D415–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj139. PMC 1347501. PMID 16381901.