Small proteins in bacteria–big challenges in prediction and identification

S Fuchs, S Engelmann - Proteomics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins with up to 100 amino acids have been largely overlooked due to the challenges
associated with predicting and identifying them using traditional methods. Recent advances …

Understanding small ORF diversity through a comprehensive transcription feature classification

D Guerra-Almeida, DA Tschoeke… - DNA …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Small open reading frames (small ORFs/sORFs/smORFs) are potentially coding sequences
smaller than 100 codons that have historically been considered junk DNA by gene …

Identifying small proteins by ribosome profiling with stalled initiation complexes

J Weaver, F Mohammad, AR Buskirk, G Storz - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Small proteins consisting of 50 or fewer amino acids have been identified as regulators of
larger proteins in bacteria and eukaryotes. Despite the importance of these molecules, the …

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 …

A community-driven roadmap to advance research on translated open reading frames detected by Ribo-seq

JM Mudge, J Ruiz-Orera, JR Prensner, MA Brunet… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Ribosome profiling (Ribo-seq) has catalyzed a paradigm shift in our understanding of the
translational 'vocabulary'of the human genome, discovering thousands of translated open …

Hidden in plain sight: challenges in proteomics detection of small ORF-encoded polypeptides

I Fijalkowski, P Willems, V Jonckheere, L Simoens… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genomic studies of bacteria have long pointed toward widespread prevalence of small open
reading frames (sORFs) encoding for short proteins,< 100 amino acids in length. Despite the …

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 …

Non-canonical transcriptional start sites in E. coli O157:H7 EDL933 are regulated and appear in surprisingly high numbers

B Zehentner, S Scherer, K Neuhaus - BMC microbiology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of genome wide transcription start sites (TSSs) revealed an unexpected
complexity since not only canonical TSS of annotated genes are recognized by RNA …

Translation complex stabilization on messenger RNA and footprint profiling to study the RNA responses and dynamics of protein biosynthesis in the cells

NE Shirokikh - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
During protein biosynthesis, ribosomes bind to messenger (m) RNA, locate its protein-
coding information, and translate the nucleotide triplets sequentially as codons into the …

Recommendations for bacterial ribosome profiling experiments based on bioinformatic evaluation of published data

A Glaub, C Huptas, K Neuhaus, Z Ardern - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Ribosome profiling (RIBO-Seq) has improved our understanding of bacterial translation,
including finding many unannotated genes. However, protocols for RIBO-Seq and …