Towards a More Authentic Vision of the (multi)Coding Potential of RNA
Xavier Roucou · Professor and Department Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke & Canada Research Chair in Functional Proteomics and Discovery of Novel Proteins
Tue, Jan 18, 2022 · 10:00 UTC
Ten of thousands of open reading frames (ORFs) are hidden within transcripts. They have eluded annotations because they are either small or within unsuspected locations. These are named alternative ORFs (altORFs) or small ORFs and have recently been highlighted by innovative proteogenomic approaches, such as our OpenProt resource, revealing their existence and implications in biological functions. Due to the absence of altORFs from annotations, pathogenic mutations within these are being ignored. I will discuss our latest progress on the re-analysis of large-scale proteomics datasets to improv