60S ribosomal protein L31 explained

60S ribosomal protein L31 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RPL31 gene.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Function

Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit. Together these subunits are composed of 4 RNA species and approximately 80 structurally distinct proteins. This gene encodes a ribosomal protein that is a component of the 60S subunit. The protein belongs to the L31E family of ribosomal proteins. It is located in the cytoplasm. Higher levels of expression of this gene in familial adenomatous polyps compared to matched normal tissues have been observed. As is typical for genes encoding ribosomal proteins, there are multiple processed pseudogenes of this gene dispersed through the genome.^[3]

Interactions

RPL31 has been shown to interact with BRCA1.^[4]

Further reading

• Wool IG, Chan YL, Glück A . Structure and evolution of mammalian ribosomal proteins . Biochemistry and Cell Biology . 73 . 11–12 . 933–47 . 1996 . 8722009 . 10.1139/o95-101 .
• Chester KA, Robson L, Begent RH, Talbot IC, Pringle JH, Primrose L, Macpherson AJ, Boxer G, Southall P, Malcolm AD . Identification of a human ribosomal protein mRNA with increased expression in colorectal tumours . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression . 1009 . 3 . 297–300 . December 1989 . 2597680 . 10.1016/0167-4781(89)90119-x .
• Kato S, Sekine S, Oh SW, Kim NS, Umezawa Y, Abe N, Yokoyama-Kobayashi M, Aoki T . Construction of a human full-length cDNA bank . Gene . 150 . 2 . 243–50 . December 1994 . 7821789 . 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90433-2 .
• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB . Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery . Genome Research . 6 . 9 . 791–806 . September 1996 . 8889548 . 10.1101/gr.6.9.791 . free .
• Kenmochi N, Kawaguchi T, Rozen S, Davis E, Goodman N, Hudson TJ, Tanaka T, Page DC . A map of 75 human ribosomal protein genes . Genome Research . 8 . 5 . 509–23 . May 1998 . 9582194 . 10.1101/gr.8.5.509 . free .
• Andersen JS, Lyon CE, Fox AH, Leung AK, Lam YW, Steen H, Mann M, Lamond AI . Directed proteomic analysis of the human nucleolus . Current Biology . 12 . 1 . 1–11 . January 2002 . 11790298 . 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00650-9 . 14132033 . free . 2002CBio...12....1A .
• Odintsova TI, Müller EC, Ivanov AV, Egorov TA, Bienert R, Vladimirov SN, Kostka S, Otto A, Wittmann-Liebold B, Karpova GG . Characterization and analysis of posttranslational modifications of the human large cytoplasmic ribosomal subunit proteins by mass spectrometry and Edman sequencing . Journal of Protein Chemistry . 22 . 3 . 249–58 . April 2003 . 12962325 . 10.1023/A:1025068419698 . 10710245 .
• Brandenberger R, Wei H, Zhang S, Lei S, Murage J, Fisk GJ, Li Y, Xu C, Fang R, Guegler K, Rao MS, Mandalam R, Lebkowski J, Stanton LW . Transcriptome characterization elucidates signaling networks that control human ES cell growth and differentiation . Nature Biotechnology . 22 . 6 . 707–16 . June 2004 . 15146197 . 10.1038/nbt971 . 27764390 .
• Rush J, Moritz A, Lee KA, Guo A, Goss VL, Spek EJ, Zhang H, Zha XM, Polakiewicz RD, Comb MJ . Immunoaffinity profiling of tyrosine phosphorylation in cancer cells . Nature Biotechnology . 23 . 1 . 94–101 . January 2005 . 15592455 . 10.1038/nbt1046 . 7200157 .
• Olsen JV, Blagoev B, Gnad F, Macek B, Kumar C, Mortensen P, Mann M . Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks . Cell . 127 . 3 . 635–48 . November 2006 . 17081983 . 10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026 . 7827573 . free .

Notes and References

1. Nobori T, Hexdall LE, Carson DA . cDNA sequence of human ribosomal protein L31 . Nucleic Acids Research . 17 . 17 . 7105 . September 1989 . 2780320 . 318439 . 10.1093/nar/17.17.7105 .
2. Yoshihama M, Uechi T, Asakawa S, Kawasaki K, Kato S, Higa S, Maeda N, Minoshima S, Tanaka T, Shimizu N, Kenmochi N . The human ribosomal protein genes: sequencing and comparative analysis of 73 genes . Genome Research . 12 . 3 . 379–90 . March 2002 . 11875025 . 155282 . 10.1101/gr.214202 .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: RPL31 ribosomal protein L31.
4. Yarden RI, Brody LC . Identification of proteins that interact with BRCA1 by Far-Western library screening . Journal of Cellular Biochemistry . 83 . 4 . 521–31 . 2001 . 11746496 . 10.1002/jcb.1257 . 29703139 .