Identification of small ORFs in vertebrates using ribosome footprinting and evolutionary conservation

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Identification of small ORFs in vertebrates using ribosome footprinting and evolutionary conservation
Creators Name:	Bazzini, A.A. and Johnstone, T.G. and Christiano, R. and Mackowiak, S.D. and Obermayer, B. and Fleming, E.S. and Vejnar, C.E. and Lee, M.T. and Rajewsky, N. and Walther, T.C. and Giraldez, A.J.
Abstract:	Identification of the coding elements in the genome is a fundamental step to understanding the building blocks of living systems. Short peptides (< 100 aa) have emerged as important regulators of development and physiology, but their identification has been limited by their size. We have leveraged the periodicity of ribosome movement on the mRNA to define actively translated ORFs by ribosome footprinting. This approach identifies several hundred translated small ORFs in zebrafish and human. Computational prediction of small ORFs from codon conservation patterns corroborates and extends these findings and identifies conserved sequences in zebrafish and human, suggesting functional peptide products (micropeptides). These results identify micropeptide-encoding genes in vertebrates, providing an entry point to define their function in vivo.
Keywords:	Micropeptides, Non-Coding RNA, Ribosome Profiling, Small ORFs, Translation, Animals, Zebrafish
Source:	EMBO Journal
ISSN:	0261-4189
Publisher:	EMBO Press / Wiley
Volume:	33
Number:	9
Page Range:	981-993
Date:	2 May 2014
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1002/embj.201488411
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