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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2023

Principles, mechanisms, and biological implications of translation termination-reinitiation.

Madeline E Sherlock, Laura Baquero Galvis, Quentin Vicens, Jeffrey S Kieft, Sujatha Jagannathan

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Madeline E SherlockDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA madeline.sherlock@cuanschutz.edu Sujatha.Jagannathan@cuanschutz.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6471-4243
Laura Baquero GalvisDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.
Quentin VicensDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3751-530X
Jeffrey S KieftDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3718-1891
Sujatha JagannathanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA madeline.sherlock@cuanschutz.edu Sujatha.Jagannathan@cuanschutz.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9039-2631

Funding

Structure, function, and dynamics of viral RNAs and RNA-containing complexesR35GM118070 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Jeffrey S Kieft · 2016 to 2026
$10.6M
Understanding the variability in nonsense-mediated RNA decayR35GM133433 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Sujatha Jagannathan · 2019 to 2026
$3.1M
Structural determinants of viral RNAs resistant to exoribonucleases in the alphavirus supergroupR21AI157244 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI VICENS, QUENTIN · 2021 to 2022
$421k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI157244NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118070NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gene expression pathway from DNA sequence to functional protein is not as straightforward as simple depictions of the central dogma might suggest. Each step is highly regulated, with complex and only partially understood molecular mechanisms at play. Translation is one step where the "one gene-one protein" paradigm breaks down, as often a single mature eukaryotic mRNA leads to more than one protein product. One way this occurs is through translation reinitiation, in which a ribosome starts making protein from one initiation site, translates until it terminates at a stop codon, but then escapes normal recycling steps and subsequently reinitiates at a different downstream site. This process is now recognized as both important and widespread, but we are only beginning to understand the interplay of factors involved in termination, recycling, and initiation that cause reinitiation events. There appear to be several ways to subvert recycling to achieve productive reinitiation, different types of stresses or signals that trigger this process, and the mechanism may depend in part on where the event occurs in the body of an mRNA. This perspective reviews the unique characteristics and mechanisms of reinitiation events, highlights the similarities and differences between three major scenarios of reinitiation, and raises outstanding questions that are promising avenues for future research.

Indexed as

ProteinsRibosomesBase SequenceCodon, TerminatorOpen Reading FramesProtein BiosynthesisRNA, MessengerCodon, TerminatorProteinsRNA, Messengerrecyclingreinitiationterminationtranslation regulation

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PMID37024263
PMCPMC10275272

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