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ArticleThe EMBO journal2020

Ending on a high note: Downstream ORFs enhance mRNA translational output.

Samantha Dodbele, Jeremy E Wilusz

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. The strategies and advances of mRNA translation booster.Asian journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samantha DodbeleDepartment of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6982-1021
Jeremy E WiluszDepartment of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6929-8755
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Regulatory roles for the Integrator complex and circular RNAsR35GM119735 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WILUSZ, JEREMY E · 2016 to 2025
$4.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119735
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic mRNAs were long thought to only translate a single protein product, but it is now recognized that many mRNAs can also encode small open reading frames (ORFs). In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Wu et al characterized small ORFs in the 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs) of human and zebrafish mRNAs and found that many are indeed translated. The peptides encoded by these downstream ORFs (dORFs) are often poorly conserved across evolution, but many dORFs are nonetheless functional, as the act of their translation can promote translation of the canonical ORF.

Indexed as

ProteinsZebrafish3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsHumansOpen Reading FramesRNA, Messenger3' Untranslated RegionsProteinsRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID32744723
PMCPMC7459393
OpenAlexW3046389551

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Registered trials

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