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Proposed uniform nomenclature for mammalian ribosomal proteins

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The numbering systems for mammalian ribosomal proteins used in several laboratories have been correlated and a proposal for a standard system is presented.

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  1. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    E. H. McConkey & S. M. Lastick

  2. Central Institute of Molecular Biology, German Academy of Sciences, 1115, Berlin-Buch, German Democratic Republic

    H. Bielka & H. Welfle

  3. Friedrich Miescher Institute, P.O. Box 273, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

    J. Gordon

  4. Department of Biochemistry, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    A. Lin & I. G. Wool

  5. Department of Biochemistry, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan

    K. Ogata

  6. Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, Lyon University I, F-69621, Villeurbanne, France

    J-P. Reboud

  7. Department of Biochemistry, University of California, 92521, Riverside, California, USA

    J. A. Traugh

  8. Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    R. R. Traut

  9. Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 10461, Bronx, New York, USA

    J. R. Warner

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McConkey, E.H., Bielka, H., Gordon, J. et al. Proposed uniform nomenclature for mammalian ribosomal proteins. Molec. Gen. Genet. 169, 1–6 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00267538

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