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From: Impact of uORFs in mediating regulation of translation in stress conditions

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Increased ribosome density in 5’UTR versus CDS in stress conditions is independent of uORFs. a Workflow of 5’UTR and CDS read mapping and quantification. We analyzed Ribo-Seq and RNA-Seq data from three experiments: #1 Scer.aa-, amino acid starvation in S. cerevisiae [27], #2 Scer. Oxi, oxidative stress in S. cerevisiae [21] and #3 Spom.N-, nitrogen starvation in S. pombe [16]. For each experiment we used two normal replicates and two stress replicates. We mapped the sequencing reads to 5’UTR and CDS separately, obtaining the corresponding CDS and 5’UTR tables of counts for each gene and sample. b Log10 ratio of 5’UTR to CDS Ribo-Seq reads in stress versus normal conditions in the three experiments. Each data point represents a gene. The number of Ribo-Seq reads is a proxy of ribosome density. A relative increase in the density of ribosomes in the 5’UTR in stress can be observed for the majority of genes in the three experiments. We discarded genes with less than 10 average mapped reads in both conditions. Tables with CDS and 5’UTR reads were merged to calculate the ratios. c Workflow of uORF read mapping and quantification. We defined uORFs in the 5’UTRs as all ATG to STOP putative coding sequences of size 10 codons or longer. Subsequently we applied RibORF to identify the ribosomal P-site for each read, which corresponds to the tRNA binding site, and extracted the number of in-frame and out-of-mapped Ribo-Seq frame reads. The uORF Ribo-Seq table of counts was obtained by adding in-frame and out-of-frame reads for each uORF and sample; uORFs with less than 10 mapped reads, considering all samples together, were not considered for further analysis. d Log10 ratio of uORF to CDS Ribo-Seq reads in stress versus normal conditions in the three experiments. Each data point represents a gene. The number of Ribo-Seq reads is a proxy of ribosome density. Any uORFs with less than 10 Ribo-Seq mapped reads considering all samples together were discarded. Tables with CDS and uORF reads were merged to calculate the ratio. A relative increase in the density of ribosomes in uORFs in stress can be observed for the majority of genes in the three experiments. e proposed uORF dependent and uORF-independent mechanisms for the increase in relative ribosome density in the 5’UTR vs CDS in stress conditions. 1. uORF-dependent: uORFs are translated at higher levels during stress and this results in CDS translation repression. 2. uORF-independent: CDS translational arrest occurs independently of uORFs. f Same as B but for 5’UTRs not containing uORFs. No significant differences in the number of mRNAs with increased 5’UTR to CDS Ribo-Seq signal in stress were detected in subsets of 5’UTR containing or not containing uORFs with respect to the complete mRNA set, see Table S1 for additional information on the number of datapoints and proportions

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