Implementation of PAR-CLIP to characterize RNA-protein interactions in prokaryotes at nucleotide resolution
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ABSTRACT: The identification of RNAs that are recognized by RNA-binding proteins (RNA-BPs) using techniques such as Crosslinking and Immunoprecipitation (CLIP) has revolutionized the genome-wide discovery of RNA-BP RNA targets. Among the different versions of CLIP that have been developed, the use of photoactivable nucleoside analogs has resulted in high efficiency photoactivable ribonucleoside-enhanced CLIP (PAR-CLIP) in vivo. Nonetheless, PAR-CLIP has not yet been applied in prokaryotes. To determine if PAR-CLIP can be used in prokaryotes, we determined suitable conditions for the incorporation of 4-thiouridine (4SU), a photoactivable nucleoside, into E. coli RNA and for the isolation of RNA crosslinked to RNA-BPs of interest. Applying this technique to Hfq, a well-characterized regulator of small RNA (sRNA)-messenger RNA (mRNA) interactions, we showed that PAR-CLIP identified most of the known sRNA targets of Hfq, as well as functionally relevant sites of Hfq-mRNA interactions at nucleotide resolution. Based on our findings, PAR-CLIP represents an improved method to identify both the RNAs and the specific regulatory sites that are recognized by RNA-BPs in prokaryotes.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos
ORGANISM(S): Escherichia Coli (ncbitaxon:562)
SUBMITTER: Chaitanya Jain
PROVIDER: MSV000090547 | MassIVE | Tue Oct 18 06:31:00 BST 2022
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PXD037523
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
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