Puder M, Barnard G F, Staniunas R J, Steele G D, Chen L B
Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1993 Oct 19;1216(1):134-6. doi: 10.1016/0167-4781(93)90050-n.
Ribosomal protein L18 mRNA is overexpressed in human colorectal cancer compared to normal colon tissue. We report the nucleotide sequence of human L18 cDNA derived from a normal colon source. There were no mutational changes in segments of L18 cDNA derived from two tumor sources. The L18 cDNA was 690 base pairs long and predicts a single open reading frame of 564 nucleotides, encoding 188 amino acids with a M(r) = 21,621, it is homologous to rat L18 and Xenopus laevis L14.