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ArticleeLife2014

Extensive translation of small Open Reading Frames revealed by Poly-Ribo-Seq.

Julie L Aspden, Ying Chen Eyre-Walker, Rose J Phillips, Unum Amin, Muhammad Ali S Mumtaz, Michele Brocard, Juan-Pablo Couso

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Article in eLife, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers.

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215citing papers in PubMed
11.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie L AspdenSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Ying Chen Eyre-WalkerSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Rose J PhillipsSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Unum AminSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Muhammad Ali S MumtazSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Michele BrocardSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Juan-Pablo CousoSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
University of Sussex · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 087516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thousands of small Open Reading Frames (smORFs) with the potential to encode small peptides of fewer than 100 amino acids exist in our genomes. However, the number of smORFs actually translated, and their molecular and functional roles are still unclear. In this study, we present a genome-wide assessment of smORF translation by ribosomal profiling of polysomal fractions in Drosophila. We detect two types of smORFs bound by multiple ribosomes and thus undergoing productive translation. The 'longer' smORFs of around 80 amino acids resemble canonical proteins in translational metrics and conservation, and display a propensity to contain transmembrane motifs. The 'dwarf' smORFs are in general shorter (around 20 amino-acid long), are mostly found in 5'-UTRs and non-coding RNAs, are less well conserved, and have no bioinformatic indicators of peptide function. Our findings indicate that thousands of smORFs are translated in metazoan genomes, reinforcing the idea that smORFs are an abundant and fundamental genome component.

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Protein Biosynthesis3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsCell LineComputational BiologyDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsGenomeHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMolecular WeightOpen Reading FramesPeptidesPolyribosomesReproducibility of ResultsRibosomesRNA, Messenger3' Untranslated RegionsDrosophila ProteinsPeptidesRNA, MessengerRNA, Untranslatedbiochemistryd. melanogasterevolutionary biologygenomicsnon-coding RNAssmall open reading Framestransmembrane peptides

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PMID25144939
PMCPMC4359375
OpenAlexW2081090039

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