Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit.Together these subunits are composed of 4 RNA species and approximately 80 structurally distinct proteins.This gene encodes a ribosomal protein that is a component of the 60S subunit.The protein belongs to the L14E family of ribosomal proteins.It contains a basic region-leucine zipper (bZIP)-like domain.The protein is located in the cytoplasm.This gene contains a trinucleotide (GCT) repeat tract whose length is highly polymorphic, these triplet repeats result in a stretch of alanine residues in the encoded protein.Transcript variants utilizing alternative polyA signals and alternative 5'-terminal exons exist but all encode the same protein.As is typical for genes encoding ribosomal proteins, there are multiple processed pseudogenes of this gene dispersed through the genome.[provided by RefSeq]