OXA1L

{{Short description|Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens}}

{{Infobox gene}}

Mitochondrial inner membrane protein OXA1L is a protein that in humans is encoded by the OXA1L gene located on 14q11.2.{{cite journal | vauthors = Molina-Gomes D, Bonnefoy N, Nguyen VC, Viegas-Péquignot E, Rötig A, Dujardin G | title = The OXA1L gene that controls cytochrome oxidase assembly maps to the 14q11.2 region of the human genome | journal = Genomics | volume = 30 | issue = 2 | pages = 396–8 | year = 1995 | pmid = 8586451 }} The C-terminus of this protein interacts with mitochondrial ribosomes and helps insert both mitochondrial and nuclear produced proteins into the inner membrane of the mitochondria.{{cite journal | vauthors = Haque ME, Elmore KB, Tripathy A, Koc H, Koc EC, Spremulli LL | title = Properties of the C-terminal tail of human mitochondrial inner membrane protein Oxa1L and its interactions with mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes | journal = The Journal of Biological Chemistry | volume = 285 | issue = 36 | pages = 28353–62 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20601428 | pmc = 2934699 | doi = 10.1074/jbc.M110.148262 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Haque ME, Spremulli LL, Fecko CJ | title = Identification of protein-protein and protein-ribosome interacting regions of the C-terminal tail of human mitochondrial inner membrane protein Oxa1L | journal = The Journal of Biological Chemistry | volume = 285 | issue = 45 | pages = 34991–8 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20739282 | pmc = 2966113 | doi = 10.1074/jbc.M110.163808 | doi-access = free }}