MRPS18A

Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S18A
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 3J7Y​, 3J9M​
Identifiers
Symbols	MRPS18A ; HumanS18b; MRP-S18-3; MRPS18-3; S18bmt
External IDs	OMIM: 611981 MGI: 1915815 HomoloGene: 32391 GeneCards: MRPS18A Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • structural constituent of ribosome Cellular component • mitochondrial inner membrane • mitochondrial small ribosomal subunit Biological process • translation • organelle organization • mitochondrial translation • mitochondrial translational initiation • mitochondrial translational elongation • mitochondrial translational termination Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	55168	68565
Ensembl	ENSG00000096080	ENSMUSG00000023967
UniProt	Q9NVS2	Q99N85
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001193343	NM_026768
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001180272	NP_081044
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 43.67 – 43.69 Mb	Chr 17: 46.11 – 46.13 Mb
PubMed search

28S ribosomal protein S18a, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPS18A 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 28S subunit protein that belongs to the ribosomal protein S18P family. The encoded protein is one of three that has significant sequence similarity to bacterial S18 proteins. The primary sequences of the three human mitochondrial S18 proteins are no more closely related to each other than they are to the prokaryotic S18 proteins. A pseudogene corresponding to this gene is found on chromosome 3p.^[3]

References

1. Cavdar Koc E, Burkhart W, Blackburn K, Moseley A, Spremulli LL (May 2001). "The small subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome. Identification of the full complement of ribosomal proteins present". J Biol Chem 276 (22): 19363–74. doi:10.1074/jbc.M100727200. PMID 11279123.
2. Kenmochi N, Suzuki T, Uechi T, Magoori M, Kuniba M, Higa S, Watanabe K, Tanaka T (Sep 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.
3. "Entrez Gene: MRPS18A mitochondrial ribosomal protein S18A".

Further reading

• 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.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Mungall AJ, Palmer SA, Sims SK, et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 6". Nature 425 (6960): 805–11. doi:10.1038/nature02055. PMID 14574404.
• 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.
• 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.
• Suzuki T, Terasaki M, Takemoto-Hori C, et al. (2001). "Proteomic analysis of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome. Identification of protein components in the 28 S small subunit". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (35): 33181–95. doi:10.1074/jbc.M103236200. PMID 11402041.