Discovery of functional factorless internal ribosome entry site-like structures through virome mining

• Subash Chapagain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Subash Chapagain, Nicolas Salcedo-Porras, Amir Abdolahzadeh

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Nicolas Salcedo-Porras ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Subash Chapagain, Nicolas Salcedo-Porras, Amir Abdolahzadeh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Amir Abdolahzadeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Subash Chapagain, Nicolas Salcedo-Porras, Amir Abdolahzadeh

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Yaohua Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Higor Sette Pereira,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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• Stephane Flibotte,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Kevin Low,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Christina Young,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Yuhang Wu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Shao Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Soh Ishiguro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Nozomu Yachie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Premium Research Institute for Human Metaverse Medicine (WPI-PRIMe), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Trushar Patel,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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• Artem Babaian,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Eric Jan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ej@mail.ubc.ca

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-8467

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