60S ribosomal protein L15 explained

60S ribosomal protein L15 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RPL15 gene.^{[1] [2]}

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 L15E family of ribosomal proteins. It is located in the cytoplasm. This gene shares sequence similarity with the yeast ribosomal protein YL10 gene. Although this gene has been referred to as RPL10, its official symbol is RPL15. This gene has been shown to be overexpressed in some esophageal tumors compared to normal matched tissues. Transcript variants utilizing alternative polyA signals exist. As is typical for genes encoding ribosomal proteins, there are multiple processed pseudogenes of this gene dispersed through the genome.^[2]

Further reading

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• Yu W, Andersson B, Worley KC, etal . Large-scale concatenation cDNA sequencing. . Genome Res. . 7 . 4 . 353–8 . 1997 . 9110174 . 10.1101/gr.7.4.353. 139146 .
• Wang Q, Yang C, Zhou J, etal . Cloning and characterization of full-length human ribosomal protein L15 cDNA which was overexpressed in esophageal cancer. . Gene . 263 . 1–2 . 205–9 . 2001 . 11223259 . 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00570-9 .
• Andersen JS, Lyon CE, Fox AH, etal . Directed proteomic analysis of the human nucleolus. . Curr. Biol. . 12 . 1 . 1–11 . 2002 . 11790298 . 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00650-9 . 14132033 . free . 2002CBio...12....1A .
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• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . 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 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .
• Andersen JS, Lam YW, Leung AK, etal . Nucleolar proteome dynamics. . Nature . 433 . 7021 . 77–83 . 2005 . 15635413 . 10.1038/nature03207 . 2005Natur.433...77A . 4344740 .
• Wang H, Zhao LN, Li KZ, etal . Overexpression of ribosomal protein L15 is associated with cell proliferation in gastric cancer. . BMC Cancer . 6. 91 . 2006 . 16608517 . 10.1186/1471-2407-6-91 . 1459873 . free .

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 Res . 8 . 5 . 509–23 . Aug 1998 . 9582194 . 10.1101/gr.8.5.509. free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: RPL15 ribosomal protein L15.