Revisiting sORFs: overcoming challenges to identify and characterize functional microproteins

D Schlesinger, SJ Elsässer - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Short ORFs (sORFs), that is, occurrences of a start and stop codon within 100 codons or
less, can be found in organisms of all domains of life, outnumbering annotated protein …

Evolutionary origins and interactomes of human, young microproteins and small peptides translated from short open reading frames

CL Sandmann, JF Schulz, J Ruiz-Orera, M Kirchner… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
All species continuously evolve short open reading frames (sORFs) that can be templated
for protein synthesis and may provide raw materials for evolutionary adaptation. We …

Cancer-related micropeptides encoded by ncRNAs: Promising drug targets and prognostic biomarkers

S Setrerrahmane, M Li, A Zoghbi, X Lv, S Zhang… - Cancer letters, 2022 - Elsevier
An exciting emerging topic in the noncoding RNA (ncRNA) field is the discovery of short
peptides called micropeptides (≤ 100 amino acids), whose novel therapeutic opportunities …

What can ribo-seq, immunopeptidomics, and proteomics tell us about the noncanonical proteome?

JR Prensner, JG Abelin, LW Kok, KR Clauser… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2023 - ASBMB
Abstract Ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq) has proven transformative for our understanding of
the human genome and proteome by illuminating thousands of noncanonical sites of …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into noncanonical open reading frames in cancer

Y Liu, S Zeng, M Wu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2022 - Elsevier
With technological advances, previously neglected noncanonical open reading frames
(nORFs) are drawing ever-increasing attention. However, the translation potential of …

Proteoforms expand the world of microproteins and short open reading frame-encoded peptides

L Cassidy, PT Kaulich, A Tholey - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Microproteins and short open reading frame-encoded peptides (SEPs) can, like all proteins,
carry numerous posttranslational modifications. Together with posttranscriptional processes …

Shining a light on the dark proteome: Non‐canonical open reading frames and their encoded miniproteins as a new frontier in cancer biology

Z Posner, I Yannuzzi, JR Prensner - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the decades following the discovery that genes encode proteins, scientists have tried to
exhaustively and comprehensively characterize the human genome. Recent advances in …

Novel open reading frames in human accelerated regions and transposable elements reveal new leads to understand schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

C Erady, K Amin, TOAE Onilogbo, J Tomasik… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder are debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders arising
from a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Novel open reading frames …

Microproteins—Discovery, structure, and function

JJ Mohsen, AA Martel, SA Slavoff - Proteomics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in proteogenomic technologies have revealed hundreds to thousands of
translated small open reading frames (sORFs) that encode microproteins in genomes across …