SIREs: searching for iron-responsive elements
Autor/a
Campillos, Monica
Cases, Ildefonso
Hentze, Matthias W.
Sanchez, Mayka
Fecha de publicación
2010-07ISSN
0305-1048
Resumen
The iron regulatory protein/iron-responsive element regulatory system plays a crucial role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and its disruption results in human disease. IREs are cis-acting regulatory motifs present in mRNAs that encode proteins involved in iron metabolism. They function as binding sites for two related trans-acting factors, namely the IRP-1 and -2. Among cis-acting RNA regulatory elements, the IRE is one of the best characterized. It is defined by a combination of RNA sequence and structure. However, currently available programs to predict IREs do not show a satisfactory level of sensitivity and fail to detect some of the functional IREs. Here, we report an improved software for the prediction of IREs implemented as a user-friendly web server tool. The SIREs web server uses a simple data input interface and provides structure analysis, predicted RNA folds, folding energy data and an overall quality flag based on properties of well characterized IREs. Results are reported in a tabular format and as a schematic visual representation that highlights important features of the IRE.
Tipo de documento
Artículo
Versión del documento
Versión publicada
Lengua
English
Materias (CDU)
57 - Biología
Palabras clave
Proteïna reguladora del ferro
Ferro
Expressió gènica
ARNm
Metabolisme del ferro
Proteína reguladora del hierro
Hierro
Expresión génica
ARNm
Metabolismo del hierro
Iron-regulating protein
Iron
Gene expression
MRNA
Iron metabolism
Páginas
8
Publicado por
Oxford University Press
Colección
38; 2
Publicado en
Nucleic Acids Research
Citación
Campillos, Monica; Cases, Ildefonso; Hentze, Matthias W. [et al.]. SIREs: searching for iron-responsive elements. Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, 38 (suppl. 2), W360-W367. Disponible en: <https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/38/suppl_2/W360/1104389>. Fecha de acceso: 18 ene. 2022. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq371
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