Are Antisense Proteins in Prokaryotes Functional?

Many prokaryotic RNAs are transcribed from loci outside of annotated protein coding genes. Across bacterial species hundreds of short open reading frames antisense to annotated genes show evidence of both transcription and translation, for instance in ribosome profiling data. Determining the functio...

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Main Authors: Zachary Ardern, Klaus Neuhaus, Siegfried Scherer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmolb.2020.00187/full