MRPL24

Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L24

PDB rendering based on 2ftc.
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
Identifiers
Symbols MRPL24 ; L24mt; MRP-L18; MRP-L24
External IDs OMIM: 611836 MGI: 1914957 HomoloGene: 12241 GeneCards: MRPL24 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 79590 67707
Ensembl ENSG00000143314 ENSMUSG00000019710
UniProt Q96A35 Q9CQ06
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_024540 NM_026591
RefSeq (protein) NP_078816 NP_080867
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
156.74 – 156.74 Mb
Chr 3:
87.92 – 87.92 Mb
PubMed search

39S ribosomal protein L24, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPL24 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 which is more than twice the size of its E.coli counterpart (EcoL24). Sequence analysis identified two transcript variants that encode the same protein.[1]

References

Further reading

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, September 01, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.