60S ribosomal protein L34 explained

60S ribosomal protein L34 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RPL34 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 L34E family of ribosomal proteins. It is located in the cytoplasm. This gene originally was thought to be located at 17q21, but it has been mapped to 4q. Transcript variants derived from alternative splicing, alternative transcription initiation sites, and/or alternative polyadenylation exist; these variants encode the same protein. As is typical for genes encoding ribosomal proteins, there are multiple processed pseudogenes of this gene dispersed through the genome.^[3]

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 .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• Andersen JS, Lam YW, Leung AK, Ong SE, Lyon CE, Lamond AI, Mann M . Nucleolar proteome dynamics . Nature . 433 . 7021 . 77–83 . January 2005 . 15635413 . 10.1038/nature03207 . 2005Natur.433...77A . 4344740 .
• Ewing RM, Chu P, Elisma F, Li H, Taylor P, Climie S, McBroom-Cerajewski L, Robinson MD, O'Connor L, Li M, Taylor R, Dharsee M, Ho Y, Heilbut A, Moore L, Zhang S, Ornatsky O, Bukhman YV, Ethier M, Sheng Y, Vasilescu J, Abu-Farha M, Lambert JP, Duewel HS, Stewart II, Kuehl B, Hogue K, Colwill K, Gladwish K, Muskat B, Kinach R, Adams SL, Moran MF, Morin GB, Topaloglou T, Figeys D . Large-scale mapping of human protein-protein interactions by mass spectrometry . Molecular Systems Biology . 3 . 1 . 89 . 2007 . 17353931 . 1847948 . 10.1038/msb4100134 .

External links

• PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human 60S ribosomal protein L34

Notes and References

1. 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 .
2. Rommens JM, Durocher F, McArthur J, Tonin P, LeBlanc JF, Allen T, Samson C, Ferri L, Narod S, Morgan K . Generation of a transcription map at the HSD17B locus centromeric to BRCA1 at 17q21 . Genomics . 28 . 3 . 530–42 . August 1995 . 7490091 . 10.1006/geno.1995.1185 .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: RPL34 ribosomal protein L34.