Description: Homo sapiens mitochondrial ribosomal protein S18A (MRPS18A), nuclear gene encoding mitochondrial protein, transcript variant 1, mRNA. RefSeq Summary (NM_018135): 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. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.[provided by RefSeq, Jul 2010]. Transcript (Including UTRs) Position: hg19 chr6:43,638,934-43,655,549 Size: 16,616 Total Exon Count: 6 Strand: - Coding Region Position: hg19 chr6:43,639,499-43,655,516 Size: 16,018 Coding Exon Count: 6
ID:RT18A_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=28S ribosomal protein S18a, mitochondrial; Short=MRP-S18-a; Short=Mrps18a; Short=S18mt-a; AltName: Full=28S ribosomal protein S18-3, mitochondrial; Short=MRP-S18-3; Flags: Precursor; SUBUNIT: Component of the mitochondrial ribosome small subunit (28S) which comprises a 12S rRNA and about 30 distinct proteins. SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Mitochondrion. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the ribosomal protein S18P family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q9NVS2
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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