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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2023

ORFeus: a computational method to detect programmed ribosomal frameshifts and other non-canonical translation events.

Mary O Richardson, Sean R Eddy

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mary O RichardsonDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sean R EddyDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. seaneddy@fas.harvard.edu.
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center · USHarvard University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation DGE 1745303
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn canonical protein translation, ribosomes initiate translation at a specific start codon, maintain a single reading frame throughout elongation, and terminate at the first in-frame stop codon. However, ribosomal behavior can deviate at each of these steps, sometimes in a programmed manner. Certain mRNAs contain sequence and structural elements that cause ribosomes to begin translation at alternative start codons, shift reading frame, read through stop codons, or reinitiate on the same mRNA. These processes represent important translational control mechanisms that can allow an mRNA to encode multiple functional protein products or regulate protein expression. The prevalence of these events remains uncertain, due to the difficulty of systematic detection.

resultsWe have developed a computational model to infer non-canonical translation events from ribosome profiling data.

conclusionORFeus identifies known examples of alternative open reading frames and recoding events across different organisms and enables transcriptome-wide searches for novel events.

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Frameshifting, RibosomalRibosomesCodon, TerminatorOpen Reading FramesProtein BiosynthesisRNA, MessengerCodon, TerminatorRNA, MessengerAlternative ORFHMMNon-canonical ORFRibosome profiling

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PMID38093195
PMCPMC10720069
OpenAlexW4389686506

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