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SUBMITTER: Duffy EE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4560836 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duffy Erin E EE Rutenberg-Schoenberg Michael M Stark Catherine D CD Kitchen Robert R RR Gerstein Mark B MB Simon Matthew D MD
Molecular cell 20150901 5
We describe a chemical method to label and purify 4-thiouridine (s(4)U)-containing RNA. We demonstrate that methanethiosulfonate (MTS) reagents form disulfide bonds with s(4)U more efficiently than the commonly used HPDP-biotin, leading to higher yields and less biased enrichment. This increase in efficiency allowed us to use s(4)U labeling to study global microRNA (miRNA) turnover in proliferating cultured human cells without perturbing global miRNA levels or the miRNA processing machinery. Thi ...[more]