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Chemical crosslinking enhances RNA immunoprecipitation for efficient identification of binding sites of proteins that photo-crosslink poorly with RNA.

ABSTRACT: In eukaryotic cells, proteins that associate with RNA regulate its activity to control cellular function. To fully illuminate the basis of RNA function, it is essential to identify such RNA-associated proteins, their mode of action on RNA, and their preferred RNA targets and binding sites. By analyzing catalogs of human RNA-associated proteins defined by ultraviolet light (UV)-dependent and -independent approaches, we classify these proteins into two major groups: (i) the widely recognized RNA binding proteins (RBPs), which bind RNA directly and UV-crosslink efficiently to RNA, and (ii) a new group of RBP-associated factors (RAFs), which bind RNA indirectly via RBPs and UV-crosslink poorly to RNA. As the UV crosslinking and immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (CLIP-seq) approach will be unsuitable to identify binding sites of RAFs, we show that formaldehyde crosslinking stabilizes RAFs within ribonucleoproteins to allow for their immunoprecipitation under stringent conditions. Using an RBP (CASC3) and an RAF (RNPS1) within the exon junction complex (EJC) as examples, we show that formaldehyde crosslinking combined with RNA immunoprecipitation in tandem followed by sequencing (xRIPiT-seq) far exceeds CLIP-seq to identify binding sites of RNPS1. xRIPiT-seq reveals that RNPS1 occupancy is increased on exons immediately upstream of strong recursively spliced exons, which depend on the EJC for their inclusion.

SUBMITTER: Patton RD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430673 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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