Table III.

Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins implicated in additional functions other than translation.

MRP	Alternate function(s)	Other localization?	References
MRPS29 (DAP3)	Apoptosis	Nucleus	[Cavdar Koc et al., 2001b; Hulkko and Zilliacus 2002]
MRPS30 (PDCD9)	Apoptosis -Homologous to chicken pro-apoptotic protein p52		[Cavdar Koc et al., 2001b]
MRPL37	Apoptosis? -Homologous to MRPS30		[Levshenkova et al., 2004]
MRPL41 (BMRP)	Apoptosis / Cell cycle progression -Interacts with Bcl-2 and p53		[Chintharlapalli et al., 2005; Yoo et al., 2005; Kim et al., 2005]
MRPS36	Cell cycle progression		[Chen et al., 2007]
MRPL12	Mitochondrial transcription	Nucleolus	[Wang et al., 2007] [Andersen et al., 2005]
MRPS34	Unknown -Interacts with hDLG scaffold protein	Cytosol	[Ogawa et al., 2003]
MRPS18B	Viral infection and cell cycle regulation -Interacts with Rb protein and promotes entry to S-phase	Nucleus	[Kashuba et al., 2008]