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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dai Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5712428 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature methods 20170515 7
The ribose of RNA nucleotides can be 2'-O-methylated (Nm). Despite advances in high-throughput detection, the inert chemical nature of Nm still limits sensitivity and precludes mapping in mRNA. We leveraged the differential reactivity of 2'-O-methylated and 2'-hydroxylated nucleosides to periodate oxidation to develop Nm-seq, a sensitive method for transcriptome-wide mapping of Nm with base precision. Nm-seq uncovered thousands of Nm sites in human mRNA with features suggesting functional roles. ...[more]