The definition of open reading frame revisited

P Sieber, M Platzer, S Schuster - Trends in Genetics, 2018 - cell.com
The term open reading frame (ORF) is of central importance to gene finding. Surprisingly, at
least three definitions are in use. We discuss several molecular biological and bioinformatics …

Unraveling the hidden universe of small proteins in bacterial genomes

S Miravet‐Verde, T Ferrar… - Molecular systems …, 2019 - embopress.org
Identification of small open reading frames (sm ORF s) encoding small proteins (≤ 100
amino acids; SEP s) is a challenge in the fields of genome annotation and protein discovery …

ORFik: a comprehensive R toolkit for the analysis of translation

H Tjeldnes, K Labun, Y Torres Cleuren, K Chyżyńska… - BMC …, 2021 - Springer
Background With the rapid growth in the use of high-throughput methods for characterizing
translation and the continued expansion of multi-omics, there is a need for back-end …

Are antisense proteins in prokaryotes functional?

Z Ardern, K Neuhaus, S Scherer - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Many prokaryotic RNAs are transcribed from loci outside of annotated protein coding genes.
Across bacterial species hundreds of short open reading frames antisense to annotated …

ProsmORF-pred: a machine learning-based method for the identification of small ORFs in prokaryotic genomes

A Khanduja, M Kumar, D Mohanty - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Small open reading frames (smORFs) encoding proteins less than 100 amino acids (aa) are
known to be important regulators of key cellular processes. However, their computational …

Evidence for the recent origin of a bacterial protein-coding, overlapping orphan gene by evolutionary overprinting

L Fellner, S Simon, C Scherling, M Witting… - BMC evolutionary …, 2015 - Springer
Background Gene duplication is believed to be the classical way to form novel genes, but
overprinting may be an important alternative. Overprinting allows entirely novel proteins to …

Spotlight on alternative frame coding: Two long overlapping genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are translated and under purifying selection

M Kreitmeier, Z Ardern, M Abele, C Ludwig, S Scherer… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The existence of overlapping genes (OLGs) with significant coding overlaps revolutionizes
our understanding of genomic complexity. We report two exceptionally long (957 nt and …

Statistical analysis of synonymous and stop codons in pseudo-random and real sequences as a function of GC content

V Wesp, G Theißen, S Schuster - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the frequencies of synonymous triplets in protein-coding and non-
coding DNA stretches can be used in gene finding. These frequencies depend on the GC …

Genomewide characterisation of the genetic diversity of carotenogenesis in bacteria of the order Sphingomonadales

S Siddaramappa, V Viswanathan… - Microbial …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
The order Sphingomonadales is a taxon of bacteria with a variety of physiological features
and carotenoid pigments. Some of the coloured strains within this order are known to be …

Phenotype of htgA (mbiA), a recently evolved orphan gene of Escherichia coli and Shigella, completely overlapping in antisense to yaaW

L Fellner, N Bechtel, MA Witting, S Simon… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Overlapping embedded genes, such as htgA/yaaW, are assumed to be rare in prokaryotes.
In Escherichia coli O157: H7, gfp fusions of both promoter regions revealed activity and …