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ArticleScientific reports2020

Exhaustive identification of conserved upstream open reading frames with potential translational regulatory functions from animal genomes.

Hiro Takahashi, Shido Miyaki, Hitoshi Onouchi, Taichiro Motomura, Nobuo Idesako, Anna Takahashi, Masataka Murase, Shuichi Fukuyoshi, Toshinori Endo, Kenji Satou and 2 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Hiro Takahashi *Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan. takahasi@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
Shido Miyaki *Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, 271-8510, Japan.
Hitoshi Onouchi *Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan.
Taichiro MotomuraGraduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan.
Nobuo IdesakoGraduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, 271-8510, Japan.
Anna TakahashiFaculty of Information Technologies and Control, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics, 220013, Minsk, Belarus.
Masataka MuraseGraduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan.
Shuichi FukuyoshiInstitute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan.
Toshinori EndoGraduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0814, Japan.
Kenji SatouFaculty of Biological Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan.
Satoshi NaitoGraduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan.
Motoyuki ItohGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan. mito@chiba-u.jp.
Chiba University · JPKanazawa University · JPHokkaido University · JPChubu University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) are present in the 5'-untranslated regions of many eukaryotic mRNAs, and some peptides encoded by these regions play important regulatory roles in controlling main ORF (mORF) translation. We previously developed a novel pipeline, ESUCA, to comprehensively identify plant uORFs encoding functional peptides, based on genome-wide identification of uORFs with conserved peptide sequences (CPuORFs). Here, we applied ESUCA to diverse animal genomes, because animal CPuORFs have been identified only by comparing uORF sequences between a limited number of species, and how many previously identified CPuORFs encode regulatory peptides is unclear. By using ESUCA, 1517 (1373 novel and 144 known) CPuORFs were extracted from four evolutionarily divergent animal genomes. We examined the effects of 17 human CPuORFs on mORF translation using transient expression assays. Through these analyses, we identified seven novel regulatory CPuORFs that repressed mORF translation in a sequence-dependent manner, including one conserved only among Eutheria. We discovered a much higher number of animal CPuORFs than previously identified. Since most human CPuORFs identified in this study are conserved across a wide range of Eutheria or a wider taxonomic range, many CPuORFs encoding regulatory peptides are expected to be found in the identified CPuORFs.

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AnimalsChickensConserved SequenceDrosophila melanogasterGene Expression RegulationGenomeHumansOpen Reading FramesProtein BiosynthesisZebrafish

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