Overlapping genes in natural and engineered genomes

BW Wright, MP Molloy, PR Jaschke - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Modern genome-scale methods that identify new genes, such as proteogenomics and
ribosome profiling, have revealed, to the surprise of many, that overlap in genes, open …

Identifying small open reading frames in prokaryotes with ribosome profiling

N Vazquez-Laslop, CM Sharma, A Mankin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Small proteins encoded by open reading frames (ORFs) shorter than 50 codons (small
ORFs [sORFs]) are often overlooked by annotation engines and are difficult to characterize …

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 …

Uncovering the small proteome of Methanosarcina mazei using Ribo-seq and peptidomics under different nitrogen conditions

MA Tufail, B Jordan, L Hadjeras, R Gelhausen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The mesophilic methanogenic archaeal model organism Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1
is crucial for climate and environmental research due to its ability to produce methane. Here …

Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching

M Raden, SM Ali, OS Alkhnbashi, A Busch… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The Freiburg RNA tools webserver is a well established online resource for RNA-focused
research. It provides a unified user interface and comprehensive result visualization for …

Revealing the small proteome of Haloferax volcanii by combining ribosome profiling and small-protein optimized mass spectrometry

L Hadjeras, J Bartel, LK Maier, S Maaß, V Vogel… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In contrast to extensively studied prokaryotic 'small'transcriptomes (encompassing all small
noncoding RNAs), small proteomes (here defined as including proteins≤ 70 aa) are only …

RiboReport-benchmarking tools for ribosome profiling-based identification of open reading frames in bacteria

R Gelhausen, T Müller, SL Svensson… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Small proteins encoded by short open reading frames (ORFs) with 50 codons or fewer are
emerging as an important class of cellular macromolecules in diverse organisms. However …

Small proteins in Archaea, a mainly unexplored world

K Weidenbach, M Gutt, L Cassidy, C Chibani… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In recent years, increasing numbers of small proteins have moved into the focus of science.
Small proteins have been identified and characterized in all three domains of life, but 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 …

Multi-integrated approach for unraveling small open reading frames potentially associated with secondary metabolism in Streptomyces

SM Fan, ZQ Li, SZ Zhang, LY Chen, XY Wei, J Liang… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Small open reading frames (smORFs) are widely distributed in various living organisms.
However, their functions remain largely unexplored. In addition, annotation and detection of …