MRPL33

mitochondrial ribosomal protein L33

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. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants6 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs7679045822:27,995,551C/Guncertain significance
rs37365942:27,995,781A/G
rs24653539102:27,997,314G/Cuncertain significance
rs3747805262:27,997,329G/Auncertain significance
rs7770187822:27,997,381G/Cuncertain significance
rs778293372:28,001,745G/T

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.