RPL29 codes for a non-essential protein of the 60S ribosomal subunit in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and exhibits synthetic lethality with mutations in genes for proteins required for subunit coupling.

RPL29 (YFR032c-a) is a non-essential gene that codes for a 60S ribosomal subunit protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Deletion of RPL29 leads to a moderate accumulation of half-mer polysomes with little or no change in the amounts of free 60S subunits. In vitro translation and the growth rate are also delayed in the Deltarpl29 strain.

The cleaved presequence is not required for import of subunit 6 of the cytochrome bc1 complex into yeast mitochondria or assembly into the complex.

Subunit 6 of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex contains a 25 amino acid presequence that is not present in the mature form of the protein in the bc1 complex. The presequence of subunit 6 is atypical of presequences responsible for targeting proteins to mitochondria. Whereas mitochondrial targeting sequences rarely contain acidic residues and typically contain basic residues that can potentially form an amphiphilic structure, the presequence of subunit 6 contains only one basic amino acid and is enriched in acidic amino acids.

Promoter structure and intron-exon organization of a scorpion alpha-toxin gene.

The Androctonus australis scorpion venom contains alpha-toxins for which the complementary DNAs have been cloned [Bougis et al. (1989) J. Biol.

[Anthropometric study of the face in childhood from birth to 11 years (author's transl)].

The normal values of some facial characteristics have been established in 1,130 French children from birth to 11 years in the Lille area. Included in the study were: distances between the internal and external angles of the eye, interpupillary distance, length of the palpebral fissures, height, width and depth of the nose, width and height of the lips and of the external ear. No significant difference could be found in boys and girls.