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Homo sapiens Gene: MRPL44
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-82292.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol MRPL44
Gene Name mitochondrial ribosomal protein L44
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000135900
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-82294
mitochondrial ribosomal protein L44
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary 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. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 2:223957404-223967714
Strand Forward strand
Band q36.1
Transcripts
ENST00000258383 ENSP00000258383
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 60 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 60 [view]
Protein-Protein 59 [view]
Protein-DNA 1 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003723 RNA binding
GO:0004525 ribonuclease III activity
GO:0044822 poly(A) RNA binding
Biological Process
GO:0006396 RNA processing
GO:0070125 mitochondrial translational elongation
GO:0090502 RNA phosphodiester bond hydrolysis, endonucleolytic
Cellular Component
GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0005739 mitochondrion
GO:0005840 ribosome
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000026248
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000011514
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
REACT_200751
Organelle biogenesis and maintenance pathway
REACT_267673
Mitochondrial translation pathway
REACT_267680
Mitochondrial translation initiation pathway
REACT_267602
Mitochondrial translation termination pathway
REACT_267677
Mitochondrial translation elongation pathway
KEGG
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene
UniGene Hs.203559 Hs.600982 Hs.607908
RefSeq NM_022915
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS CCDS2459
HPRD 14763
IMGT
EMBL
GenPept
RNA Seq Atlas

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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