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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021

Methods to Study Translated Pseudogenes: Recombinant Expression and Complementation, Targeted Proteomics, and RNA Profiling.

Anne Parle-McDermott, Niamh Bookey, Paula Meleady, Paola Drago

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anne Parle-McDermottMolecular Genetics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. anne.parle-mcdermott@dcu.ie.
Niamh BookeyMolecular Genetics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Paula MeleadyNational Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Paola DragoMolecular Genetics Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin City University · IE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The technical challenge in proving that a given expressed pseudogene is in fact translated into a functional protein is specificity. To circumvent this challenge, one approach is to use PCR in order to generate a series of clones that allow one to exogenously express the pseudogenic protein of interest, either native or fused to a tag, which can facilitate purification, detection, and complementation in both bacterial and mammalian cells. This approach allows an assessment of whether a putative pseudogenic protein possesses enzymatic activity, to identify its subcellular localization and to test its capacity to complement the parental homolog. An alternative approach is to detect the endogenous protein using targeted proteomics analysis and to assess the full range of endogenous RNA isoforms, in order to consider additional coding and noncoding RNA functionality.

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Protein BiosynthesisPseudogenesAnimalsCell LineChromatography, LiquidCloning, MolecularDNA ProbesEscherichia coliGenetic VectorsHumansMammalsOpen Reading FramesProteomicsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerDNA ProbesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRNA, MessengerCloningDHFRExpression proteomicsPseudogeneRNA profiling

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PMID34165719
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