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SIREs: searching for iron-responsive elements

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Campillos, M., Cases, I., Hentze, M. W., Sanchez, M.·2010·Nucleic Acids Research

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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. The SIREs (Search for iron-responsive elements) web server is freely available on the web at http://ccbg.imppc.org/sires/index.html.

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  • IRPs probably regulate the immune response indirectly because the assayed cytokine transcripts lack IREs.

    “IRPs most likely regulate the immune response in an indirect manner since the transcripts encoding the cytokines assayed in our study are devoid of IRE, as assessed using the sIRES tool (Campillos et al., 2010).”

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Authors
Campillos, M., Cases, I., Hentze, M. W., & Sanchez, M.
Affiliations
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (ES)
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2010-05-11
Volume
38
Issue
Web Server
Pages
W360-W367
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W1967604392
Cited by
102
References
31
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FWCI
2.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Hispana (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (RYC-2008-02352)
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
Keywords
iron-responsive element, iron regulatory proteins, post-transcriptional regulation, RNA secondary structure prediction, web server, iron metabolism
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Binding Sites, Humans, Iron, Nucleic Acid Conformation, RNA, Software, Internet, Untranslated Regions, Iron-Regulatory Proteins, Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid

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