Translational regulation by uORFs and start codon selection stringency

TE Dever, IP Ivanov, AG Hinnebusch - Genes & development, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
In addition to the main, protein-coding, open reading frame (mORF), many eukaryotic
mRNAs contain upstream ORFs (uORFs) initiated at AUG or near-cognate codons residing …

Non-AUG translation: a new start for protein synthesis in eukaryotes

MG Kearse, JE Wilusz - Genes & development, 2017 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Although it was long thought that eukaryotic translation almost always initiates at an AUG
start codon, recent advancements in ribosome footprint mapping have revealed that non …

Codon usage influences the local rate of translation elongation to regulate co-translational protein folding

CH Yu, Y Dang, Z Zhou, C Wu, F Zhao, MS Sachs… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Codon usage bias is a universal feature of eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes and has
been proposed to regulate translation efficiency, accuracy, and protein folding based on the …

Conserved upstream open reading frame nascent peptides that control translation

TE Dever, IP Ivanov, MS Sachs - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Cells utilize transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms to alter gene expression in
response to environmental cues. Gene-specific controls, including changing the translation …

Codon usage regulates protein structure and function by affecting translation elongation speed in Drosophila cells

F Zhao, C Yu, Y Liu - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Codon usage biases are found in all eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes and have been
proposed to regulate different aspects of translation process. Codon optimality has been …

Regulation of TRI5 expression and deoxynivalenol biosynthesis by a long non-coding RNA in Fusarium graminearum

P Huang, X Yu, H Liu, M Ding, Z Wang, JR Xu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deoxynivalenol (DON) is the most frequently detected mycotoxin in cereal grains and
processed food or feed. Two transcription factors, Tri6 and Tri10, are essential for DON …

Non-AUG start codons: expanding and regulating the small and alternative ORFeome

X Cao, SA Slavoff - Experimental cell research, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent ribosome profiling and proteomic studies have revealed the presence of thousands
of novel coding sequences, referred to as small open reading frames (sORFs), in prokaryotic …

eRF1 mediates codon usage effects on mRNA translation efficiency through premature termination at rare codons

Q Yang, CH Yu, F Zhao, Y Dang, C Wu… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Codon usage bias is a universal feature of eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes and plays
an important role in regulating gene expression levels. A major role of codon usage is …

Machine learning predicts translation initiation sites in neurologic diseases with nucleotide repeat expansions

AC Gleason, G Ghadge, J Chen, Y Sonobe, RP Roos - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
A number of neurologic diseases associated with expanded nucleotide repeats, including
an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, have an unconventional form of translation …

Conservation and variability of the AUG initiation codon context in eukaryotes

G Hernández, VG Osnaya, X Pérez-Martínez - Trends in biochemical …, 2019 - cell.com
Selection of the translation initiation site (TIS) is a crucial step during translation. In the
1980s Marylin Kozak performed key studies on vertebrate mRNAs to characterize the …