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Background <p>Nucleotide sequence can be translated in three reading frames producing distinct protein products. Many examples of RNA translation in two reading frames (dual coding) have been identified so far.</p> Results <p>We report translation of mRNA transcripts derived from SRD5A1 locus in all three reading frames that result in the synthesis of long polypeptides. This occurs due to initiation at three nearby AUG codons occurring in all three reading frames. Only one of the three proteoforms contains the conserved catalytical domain of SRD5A1 produced either from the second or the third AUG codon depending on the transcript. Paradoxically, ribosome profiling data and expression reporters indicate that the most efficient translation would produce catalytically inactive polypeptide. While phylogenetic analysis suggests that the long triple decoding region is specific to primates, occurrence of nearby AUGs in all three reading frames is ancestral to placental mammals. This suggests that their evolutionary significance belongs to regulation of translation rather than biological role of their products. By analysing multiple publicly available ribosome profiling data and with gene expression assays carried out in different cellular environments, we show that relative expression of these proteoforms is mutually dependent and varies across environments supporting this conjecture. We show that a remarkable feature of triple decoding is its resistance to frameshift causing variants with apparent implications to clinical interpretation of genomic sequence variants.</p> Conclusions <p>We argue for the importance of identification, characterisation and annotation of productive RNA translation irrespective of the presumed biological roles of its products.</p>

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Human SRD5A1 as a case of gene expression indel-resistance in triple-coding region

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    2026年5月18日

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  • Martina M. Yordanova,
  • Jack A. S. Tierney,
  • Kyle A. Meiklejohn,
  • Conor Slattery,
  • Michał I. Świrski,
  • Mirriam Baranova-Gurvich,
  • Manon Engels,
  • Oscar Ting,
  • Ananth Prakash,
  • Håkon Tjeldnes,
  • Jonathan M. Mudge,
  • Gary Loughran,
  • Juan Antonio Vizcaíno,
  • Dmitry E. Andreev,
  • Pavel V. Baranov

摘要

Background

Nucleotide sequence can be translated in three reading frames producing distinct protein products. Many examples of RNA translation in two reading frames (dual coding) have been identified so far.

Results

We report translation of mRNA transcripts derived from SRD5A1 locus in all three reading frames that result in the synthesis of long polypeptides. This occurs due to initiation at three nearby AUG codons occurring in all three reading frames. Only one of the three proteoforms contains the conserved catalytical domain of SRD5A1 produced either from the second or the third AUG codon depending on the transcript. Paradoxically, ribosome profiling data and expression reporters indicate that the most efficient translation would produce catalytically inactive polypeptide. While phylogenetic analysis suggests that the long triple decoding region is specific to primates, occurrence of nearby AUGs in all three reading frames is ancestral to placental mammals. This suggests that their evolutionary significance belongs to regulation of translation rather than biological role of their products. By analysing multiple publicly available ribosome profiling data and with gene expression assays carried out in different cellular environments, we show that relative expression of these proteoforms is mutually dependent and varies across environments supporting this conjecture. We show that a remarkable feature of triple decoding is its resistance to frameshift causing variants with apparent implications to clinical interpretation of genomic sequence variants.

Conclusions

We argue for the importance of identification, characterisation and annotation of productive RNA translation irrespective of the presumed biological roles of its products.