Heterologous Stop Codon Readthrough of Metazoan Readthrough Candidates in Yeast

Recent analysis of genomic signatures in mammals, flies, and worms indicates that functional translational stop codon readthrough is considerably more abundant in metazoa than previously recognized, but this analysis provides only limited clues about the function or mechanism of readthrough. If an m...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jungreis, Irwin (Contributor), Kellis, Manolis (Contributor), Chan, Clara Sophia (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2013-07-12T16:54:33Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext
LEADER 01937 am a22002653u 4500
001 79593
042 |a dc 
100 1 0 |a Jungreis, Irwin  |e author 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Chan, Clara Sophia  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Jungreis, Irwin  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Kellis, Manolis  |e contributor 
700 1 0 |a Kellis, Manolis  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Chan, Clara Sophia  |e author 
245 0 0 |a Heterologous Stop Codon Readthrough of Metazoan Readthrough Candidates in Yeast 
260 |b Public Library of Science,   |c 2013-07-12T16:54:33Z. 
856 |z Get fulltext  |u http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79593 
520 |a Recent analysis of genomic signatures in mammals, flies, and worms indicates that functional translational stop codon readthrough is considerably more abundant in metazoa than previously recognized, but this analysis provides only limited clues about the function or mechanism of readthrough. If an mRNA known to be read through in one species is also read through in another, perhaps these questions can be studied in a simpler setting. With this end in mind, we have investigated whether some of the readthrough genes in human, fly, and worm also exhibit readthrough when expressed in S. cerevisiae. We found that readthrough was highest in a gene with a post-stop hexamer known to trigger readthrough, while other metazoan readthrough genes exhibit borderline readthrough in S. cerevisiae. 
520 |a National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (5U54HG004555-03) 
546 |a en_US 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t PLoS ONE