Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

MRPL55

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MRPL55
Remove ads

39S ribosomal protein L55, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPL55 gene.[5]

Quick Facts Available structures, PDB ...

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. Multiple transcript variants encoding two different isoforms were identified through sequence analysis.[5]

Remove ads

References

Further reading

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads