DAP3

death associated protein 3

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 28S subunit protein that also participates in apoptotic pathways which are initiated by tumor necrosis factor-alpha, Fas ligand, and gamma interferon. This protein potentially binds ATP/GTP and might be a functional partner of the mitoribosomal protein S27. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene. Pseudogenes corresponding to this gene are found on chromosomes 1q and 2q. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]

Known Variants31 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs1846799721:155,658,184C/Asynonymous variant—
rs5701978861:155,663,235C/A——
rs5495259881:155,667,464C/T——
rs7641529401:155,679,611A/G—uncertain significance
rs3694973541:155,679,618G/A—likely benign
rs618177631:155,681,157G/Aupstream gene variant—
rs7707930961:155,686,809C/T—likely benign
rs1462117681:155,686,867A/G—uncertain significance
rs7535273701:155,691,345A/G—likely benign
rs2002992931:155,695,723G/C—uncertain significance
rs7597032501:155,695,733C/T—uncertain significance
rs1462153121:155,697,441G/A—likely benign
rs13270834261:155,697,473G/C—uncertain significance
rs9469953251:155,697,491A/G—uncertain significance
rs2017771681:155,697,501A/G—uncertain significance
rs1505536831:155,697,515C/T—uncertain significance
rs1483719271:155,697,526C/T—likely benign
rs25264866851:155,698,890C/T—uncertain significance
rs576925911:155,699,032G/T—benign
rs3756894511:155,699,156C/G—uncertain significance
rs25265207501:155,701,198A/G—uncertain significance
rs25265271791:155,701,757C/T—uncertain significance
rs3731255991:155,701,804C/T—uncertain significance
rs25265279841:155,701,811A/C—uncertain significance
rs7724025011:155,706,834A/G—uncertain significance
rs16600013131:155,707,975T/G—likely pathogenic
rs5361032201:155,708,010G/A—pathogenic
rs7585407921:155,708,013C/T—uncertain significance
rs7799487281:155,708,014G/A—uncertain significance
rs1114630641:155,708,019T/A—uncertain significance
rs7815626981:155,708,020G/A—pathogenic

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.