Category Archives: micropeptide

Our group is participating in the SMBE Satellite Meeting on de novo gene birth

Cova Vara and Chris Papadopoulos have presented their research in this week’s Symposium on de novo genes celebrated in Texas A&M University (College Station, Nov 6-9 2023). The research aims to explore the evolution of new genes in populations and … Continue reading

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Evolutionary trajectories of new duplicated and putative de novo genes

Completely new protein sequences in genomes can arise by gene duplication or de novo. How does the mechanism of origination influence the fate of the proteins? Do duplicated proteins tend to be retained at higher rates than de novo proteins? … Continue reading

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The functions of human de novo originated proteins start to be revealed

Proteins restricted to a given species or lineage are mysterious. Many of them have emerged de novo from ancestral non-coding genomic regions rather than from pre-existing genes. A new study by Vakirlis et al. shows that a large portion of … Continue reading

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Large scale annotation of small proteins by ribosome profiling

We participate in a a new world-wide initiative for the large-scale annotation of small ORF translation events detected by ribosome profiling in the human genome. The initiative, led by researchers at Ensembl, Max Delbrück Center and Broad Institute, among others, … Continue reading

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