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Monday, 6th July, 2015, Wednesday, July 8 at 12:00h

Long non-coding RNAs as a source of new peptides.

High throughput sequencing of the eukaryotic transcriptome has resulted in the identification of many transcripts that lack long conserved open reading frames and which have been classified as long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). The majority of them are expressed at low levels and do not have a known function. Despite having been annotated as non-coding RNAs, the sequencing of ribosome-protected RNA fragments (ribosome profiling) has revealed that many of them are scanned by ribosomes and are likely to translate short peptides. We have examined single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and have found evidence of purifying selection on the corresponding coding regions. We propose that lncRNAs provide the necessary raw material for the evolution of new functional proteins during evolution.


Group Leader Seminars are always on Wednesdays at 12:00h at the Auditorium, Sala Marie Curie or, exceptionally, at the Aula 473.

Speaker: Mar AlbĂ 

Room PRBB Auditorium



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