Genome-wide profiling of human cap-independent translation-enhancing elements.

Wellensiek, Brian P; Larsen, Andrew C; Stephens, Bret; Kukurba, Kim; Waern, Karl; Briones, Natalia; Liu, Li; Snyder, Michael et al. · Nat Methods · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report an in vitro selection strategy to identify RNA sequences that mediate cap-independent initiation of translation. This method entails mRNA display of trillions of genomic fragments, selection for initiation of translation and high-throughput deep sequencing. We identified >12,000 translation-enhancing elements (TEEs) in the human genome, generated a high-resolution map of human TEE-bearing regions (TBRs), and validated the function of a subset of sequences in vitro and in cultured cells.

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