Small ORFs, Big Insights: Drosophila as a Model to Unraveling Microprotein Functions
Recently developed ROCK ROSE experimental and computational approaches to identify putative coding small ORFs (smORFs) in genomes have revealed thousands of smORFs localized within coding and non-coding RNAs.They can be translated into smORF peptides or microproteins, which are defined as less than 100 amino acids in length.The identification of su