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. 2023 Feb 20;35(2):640-643.
doi: 10.1093/plcell/koac333.

An updated nomenclature for plant ribosomal protein genes

M Regina Scarpin  1   2   3 , Michael Busche  1 , Ryan E Martinez  1 , Lisa C Harper  4 , Leonore Reiser  5 , Dóra Szakonyi  6 , Catharina Merchante  7 , Ting Lan  8   9 , Wei Xiong  8 , Beixin Mo  8 , Guiliang Tang  10 , Xuemei Chen  11 , Julia Bailey-Serres  11 , Karen S Browning  12 , Jacob O Brunkard  1   2   3
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An updated nomenclature for plant ribosomal protein genes

M Regina Scarpin et al. Plant Cell. .
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The proposed r-protein nomenclature follows standard rules across all domains of life to indicate homology of ribosomal subunits. A, The first letter indicates whether the r-protein is specific to bacterial genomes (b), archaean/eukaryotic genomes (e), or universal across genomes (u). In cases when the organellar r-protein has no cytosolic r-protein orthologues, the first letter instead indicates that the r-protein is specific to mitochondria (m) or plastids (c). The second letter indicates whether the r-protein is associated with the large 60S (L) or small 40S (S) subunit. The subunit number is based on consensus convention across model species as previously established (Ban et al., 2014). r-proteins that localize to plastids (c) or mitochondria (m) are indicated with a suffix, and this suffix is uppercase when the r-protein is encoded by the organellar genome. The final suffix is used to distinguish paralogs that encode homologous r-proteins within a genome. B, Representative example of r-protein paralogy in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. eL6x is a homoeolog of two tandemly duplicated paralogs, eL6z and eL6y. Neighboring homoeologous genes and chromosomal locations are indicated to demonstrate synteny among these r-protein genes.
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