Revisiting sORFs: overcoming challenges to identify and characterize functional microproteins

D Schlesinger, SJ Elsässer - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Short ORFs (sORFs), that is, occurrences of a start and stop codon within 100 codons or
less, can be found in organisms of all domains of life, outnumbering annotated protein …

LncRNA-encoded peptide: functions and predicting methods

J Xing, H Liu, W Jiang, L Wang - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) was originally defined as the representative of the non-
coding RNAs and unable to encode. However, recent reports suggest that some lncRNAs …

Ultrasensitive Ribo-seq reveals translational landscapes during mammalian oocyte-to-embryo transition and pre-implantation development

Z Xiong, K Xu, Z Lin, F Kong, Q Wang, Y Quan… - Nature Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
In mammals, translational control plays critical roles during oocyte-to-embryo transition
(OET) when transcription ceases. However, the underlying regulatory mechanisms remain …

Translatome and transcriptome co-profiling reveals a role of TPRXs in human zygotic genome activation

Z Zou, C Zhang, Q Wang, Z Hou, Z Xiong, F Kong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Translational regulation plays a critical role during the oocyte-to-embryo transition (OET)
and zygotic genome activation (ZGA). Here, we integrated ultra-low-input ribosome profiling …

POSTAR3: an updated platform for exploring post-transcriptional regulation coordinated by RNA-binding proteins

W Zhao, S Zhang, Y Zhu, X Xi, P Bao, Z Ma… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play key roles in post-transcriptional regulation. Accurate
identification of RBP binding sites in multiple cell lines and tissue types from diverse species …

What can ribo-seq, immunopeptidomics, and proteomics tell us about the noncanonical proteome?

JR Prensner, JG Abelin, LW Kok, KR Clauser… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2023 - ASBMB
Abstract Ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq) has proven transformative for our understanding of
the human genome and proteome by illuminating thousands of noncanonical sites of …

The translation of non-canonical open reading frames controls mucosal immunity

R Jackson, L Kroehling, A Khitun, W Bailis, A Jarret… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The annotation of the mammalian protein-coding genome is incomplete. Arbitrary size
restriction of open reading frames (ORFs) and the absolute requirement for a methionine …

Human hematopoietic stem cell vulnerability to ferroptosis

J Zhao, Y Jia, D Mahmut, AA Deik, S Jeanfavre… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have a number of unique physiologic adaptations that
enable lifelong maintenance of blood cell production, including a highly regulated rate of …

Single-cell transcriptome and translatome dual-omics reveals potential mechanisms of human oocyte maturation

W Hu, H Zeng, Y Shi, C Zhou, J Huang, L Jia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The combined use of transcriptome and translatome as indicators of gene expression
profiles is usually more accurate than the use of transcriptomes alone, especially in cell …

Coding and non-coding roles of MOCCI (C15ORF48) coordinate to regulate host inflammation and immunity

CQE Lee, B Kerouanton, S Chothani, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mito-SEPs are small open reading frame-encoded peptides that localize to the mitochondria
to regulate metabolism. Motivated by an intriguing negative association between mito-SEPs …