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ArticleGenetics2011

Augmented annotation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome reveals additional genes required for growth and viability.

Danny A Bitton, Valerie Wood, Paul J Scutt, Agnes Grallert, Tim Yates, Duncan L Smith, Iain M Hagan, Crispin J Miller

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Article in Genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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8 authors.

Danny A BittonCancer Research UK Applied Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, University of Manchester, Christie Hospital Site, Manchester M20 4BX, United Kingdom.
Valerie Wood
Paul J Scutt
Agnes Grallert
Tim Yates
Duncan L Smith
Iain M Hagan
Crispin J Miller

Funding

Cancer Research UK C147/A6058Wellcome Trust 090548Wellcome Trust WT090548MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome annotation is a synthesis of computational prediction and experimental evidence. Small genes are notoriously difficult to detect because the patterns used to identify them are often indistinguishable from chance occurrences, leading to an arbitrary cutoff threshold for the length of a protein-coding gene identified solely by in silico analysis. We report a systematic reappraisal of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome that ignores thresholds. A complete six-frame translation was compared to a proteome data set, the Pfam domain database, and the genomes of six other fungi. Thirty-nine novel loci were identified. RT-PCR and RNA-Seq confirmed transcription at 38 loci; 33 novel gene structures were delineated by 5' and 3' RACE. Expression levels of 14 transcripts fluctuated during meiosis. Translational evidence for 10 genes, evolutionary conservation data supporting 35 predictions, and distinct phenotypes upon ORF deletion (one essential, four slow-growth, two delayed-division phenotypes) suggest that all 39 predictions encode functional proteins. The popularity of S. pombe as a model organism suggests that this augmented annotation will be of interest in diverse areas of molecular and cellular biology, while the generality of the approach suggests widespread applicability to other genomes.

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Genes, FungalBiological EvolutionCell SurvivalDatabases, GeneticGenetic LociGenome, FungalGenomicsMeiosisMolecular Sequence AnnotationProteomeReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, FungalSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsProteomeRNA, FungalSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins

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PMID21270388
PMCPMC3070528

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