Table 2.

Ribosomal proteins in DNA repair mechanisms

Ribosomal protein	Organism	Function	Reference
S9	E. coli	Involved in SOS repair mechanism by participating with polymerase UmuC	3
S3	Drosophila spp.	DNA repair endonuclease. Corrects damage resulting from oxidative and ionising radiation	27
	H. sapiens	Knockdown of S3 protects human cells from genotoxic stress. This is the converse of the situation in Drosophila S3	28
P0/LP0 (constituent of ribosomal stalk structure)	Drosophila, H. sapiens	Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity	29