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Project description:Nascent RNA-sequencing tracks transcription at nucleotide resolution. The genomic distribution of engaged transcription complexes, in turn, uncovers functional genomic regions. Here, we provide analytical steps to (1) identify transcribed regulatory elements de novo genome-wide, (2) quantify engaged transcription complexes at enhancers, promoter-proximal regions, divergent transcripts, gene bodies, and termination windows, and (3) measure distribution of transcription machineries and regulatory proteins across functional genomic regions. This protocol tracks engaged transcription complexes across functional genomic regions demonstrated in human K562 erythroleukemia cells. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Vihervaara et al. (2021).
| S-EPMC8749334 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Quantifying RNA Synthesis at Rate-Limiting Steps of Transcription Using Nascent RNA-sequencing Data
| PRJNA750851 | ENA
Project description:RNA sequences are expected to be identical to their corresponding DNA sequences. Advances in technologies have enabled deep sequencing of nucleic acids that uncovered exceptions to the one-to-one relationship between DNA and RNA sequences. Previously in human cells, post-transcriptional RNA editing was the only known mechanism that changes RNA sequences from the underlying DNA sequences. Here, we sequenced nascent RNA and found all 12 types of RNA-DNA differences. Using various experimental analyses, we validated this finding. Our results showed that sequences of nascent RNAs within 40 nucleotides of the exit channel of RNA polymerase II already differ from the corresponding DNA sequences. These RNA-DNA differences are mediated by RNA processing steps closely coupled with transcription and not by known deaminase-mediated RNA editing mechanisms nor during NTP incorporation by Pol II. This finding identifies sequence substitution as part of co-transcriptional RNA processing. We sequenced nascent RNA using global run-on sequencing, GRO-seq from human B-cells from two individuals and a variant of the GRO-seq procedure, known as precision run-on sequencing, PRO-seq. The RNAs are prepared after a short run-on assay performed with isolated nuclei in the presence of Br-UTP. The isolated RNAs are base hydrolyzed to ~100 nucleotides and affinity purified with anti-BrU beads three times at each successive step of preparing the RNAs for orientation-specific sequencing using Illumina technology. The 5M-bM-^@M-^Y ~half of each sequence represents nascent RNA made in the cell and the 3M-bM-^@M-^Y ~half represents sequences made in vitro during the run-on reaction. The precision variation, PRO-seq, incorporates one or at most a few biotin-labeled nucleoside triphosphates during the run-on, and sequencing from the 3M-bM-^@M-^Y end of this affinity purified, nascent RNA maps the cellular location of engaged polymerases with near single nucleotide precision. We obtained ~ 100 million 100-nucleotide uniquely mapped GRO-seq reads from B-cells of two individuals. For one subject, we also carried out pGRO-seq and obtained 60 million uniquely mapped reads. In addition, we sequenced ~135 million uniquely mapped RNA-seq reads, and the corresponding DNA of the two individuals to 30X and 60X coverage. Additionally, we isolated and sequenced nascent RNA with an alternate method described by Wuarin and Schibler (1994) in order to compare chromatin-bound RNA to the very nascent RNA from PRO-seq. We obtained ~190 million uniquely mapped reads from chormatin-bound RNA-seq.
2014-02-21 | E-GEOD-39878 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Deep sequencing now provides detailed snapshots of ribosome occupancy on mRNAs. We leverage these data to parameterize a computational model of translation, keeping track of every ribosome, tRNA, and mRNA molecule in a yeast cell. We determine the parameter regimes in which fast initiation or high codon bias in a transgene increases protein yield and infer the initiation rates of endogenous Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes, which vary by several orders of magnitude and correlate with 5' mRNA folding energies. Our model recapitulates the previously reported 5'-to-3' ramp of decreasing ribosome densities, although our analysis shows that this ramp is caused by rapid initiation of short genes rather than slow codons at the start of transcripts. We conclude that protein production in healthy yeast cells is typically limited by the availability of free ribosomes, whereas protein production under periods of stress can sometimes be rescued by reducing initiation or elongation rates.
| S-EPMC3694300 | biostudies-literature
Project description:EXD2 is a recently identified exonuclease that cleaves RNA and DNA in double-stranded (ds) forms. It thus serves as a model system for investigating the similarities and discrepancies between exoribonuclease and exodeoxyribonuclease activities and for understanding the nucleic acid (NA) unwinding-degradation coordination of an exonuclease. Here, using a single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) approach, we show that despite stable binding to both substrates, EXD2 barely cleaves dsDNA and yet displays both exoribonuclease and exodeoxyribonuclease activities toward RNA-DNA hybrids with a cleavage preference for RNA. Unexpectedly, EXD2-mediated hybrid cleavage proceeds in a discrete stepwise pattern, wherein a sudden 4-bp duplex unwinding increment and the subsequent dwell constitute a complete hydrolysis cycle. The relatively weak exodeoxyribonuclease activity of EXD2 partially originates from frequent hybrid rewinding. Importantly, kinetic analysis and comparison of the dwell times under varied conditions reveal two rate-limiting steps of hybrid unwinding and nucleotide excision. Overall, our findings help better understand the cellular functions of EXD2, and the cyclic coupling between duplex unwinding and exonucleolytic degradation may be generalizable to other exonucleases.
| S-SCDT-10_15252-EMBJ_2022111703 | biostudies-other
Project description:An analysis of the available data on the cytidine pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, by the logic derived from the theoretical principles of metabolic regulation, shows that the first two reactions catalysed by choline (ethanolamine) kinase and phosphocholine (phosphoethanolamine) cytidylyltransferase are rate-limiting, whereas the phosphocholine (phosphoethanolamine) transferase step is near equilibrium in rat liver.
| S-EPMC1183736 | biostudies-other
Project description:One weakness of batteries is the rapid falloff in charge-storage capacity with increasing charge/discharge rate. Rate performance is related to the timescales associated with charge/ionic motion in both electrode and electrolyte. However, no general fittable model exists to link capacity-rate data to electrode/electrolyte properties. Here we demonstrate an equation which can fit capacity versus rate data, outputting three parameters which fully describe rate performance. Most important is the characteristic time associated with charge/discharge which can be linked by a second equation to physical electrode/electrolyte parameters via various rate-limiting processes. We fit these equations to ~200 data sets, deriving parameters such as diffusion coefficients or electrolyte conductivities. It is possible to show which rate-limiting processes are dominant in a given situation, facilitating rational design and cell optimisation. In addition, this model predicts the upper speed limit for lithium/sodium ion batteries, yielding a value that is consistent with the fastest electrodes in the literature.
| S-EPMC6488605 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Amino-oxyacetate (carboxymethoxylamine) was found to inhibit protein labelling in isolated liver cells. A similar degree of inhibition (about 70%) was observed of basal and substrate-stimulated rates of protein labelling, ruling out an action on the cellular energy state. Its effect does not seem to be related either to a perturbation of the reduction state of the NAD system or to rate changes in the gluconeogenic pathway. The following observations indicate that amino-oxyacetate inhibits protein labelling by limiting aspartate supply. Amino-oxyacetate was ineffective in a postmitochondrial supernatant under non-limiting amino acid supply conditions. The aspartate cellular content decreases in the presence of amino-oxyacetate, although most other amino acids tend to accumulate. L-Cycloserine was unable to decrease aspartate content and was ineffective in decreasing protein labelling. The inhibitory action of amino-oxyacetate was specifically reversed by incubating cells with amino acids that increase the cellular content of aspartate.
| S-EPMC1147731 | biostudies-other
Project description:Precision Run-On Sequencing (PRO-seq) was performed on triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell lines and drug resistant cell lines to determine the epigenetic factors that contribute to TNBC subtypes and drug resistance.
2023-06-01 | GSE206324 | GEO
Project description:The effect of electrostatic screening of fixed negative charges on uncoupled mitochondrial electron transport was investigated with substrates with different charge and different sites of donation of electrons to the electron-transport chain of Jerusalem-artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) mitochondria. Duroquinol (neutral substrate) was oxidized with a pH optimum of 7.6-7.8. The addition of cations caused a doubling of Vmax. (order of efficiency C3+ greater than C2+ greater than C+) through electrostatic screening, whereas the Km was unaffected. Screening stimulated (by 150%) the Vmax. for the oxidation of reduced cytochrome c (positive substrate; to O2), but in this case the Km doubled. The Vmax. of the oxidation of exogenous NADH (negative substrate) was also stimulated by screening when the acceptor was O2, but unaffected when duroquinone was the acceptor. In both cases, the Km for NADH was considerably decreased. The effect of screening on the Km for the different substrates can be explained by the changes in the effective concentration of substrate near the active site due to the lowering in the size of the surface potential. The effect of screening on the Vmax. of the different partial processes indicates that increasing the salt concentration of the medium enhances the maximal activity of cytochrome c oxidase. However, the results also point at the existence of other rate-limiting steps, which are affected by screening and may involve ubiquinone, in electron transport in plant mitochondria.
| S-EPMC1144360 | biostudies-other