Small ORFs, Big Insights: Drosophila as a Model to Unraveling Microprotein Functions
Recently developed 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 Shorts are defined as less than 100 amino acids in length.The identification of such