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ArticleMolecular biology reports2014

Characterizing RNA-protein interaction using cross-linking and metabolite supplemented nuclear RNA-immunoprecipitation.

Phil Chi Khang Au, Chris Helliwell, Ming-Bo Wang

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Article in Molecular biology reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Phil Chi Khang AuBlack Mountain Laboratories, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, GPO 1600, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
Chris Helliwell
Ming-Bo Wang
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · AUPlant Industry · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA-immunoprecipitation (RNA-IP) is a method used to isolate and identify RNA molecules specifically associated with an RNA-binding protein. Non-coding RNAs are emerging as key regulators of many biological and developmental pathways and RNA-IP has become an important tool in studying their function(s). While RNA-IP is successfully used to determine protein-RNA interaction, specific details regarding the level of this association and the metabolic requirement of this interaction which can influence the success of RNA-IP remain unclear. Here, we investigate the conditions required for efficient nuclear RNA-IP using Arabidopsis AGO4 (Argonaute 4) and siRNA binding as the study model. We showed that formaldehyde cross-linking, but not UV cross-linking, allowed for efficient pull-down of 24-nt siRNAs, suggesting that AGO4-siRNA interaction involves other protein(s). We also showed that, while formaldehyde cross-linking could also be performed on purified nuclei, ATP supplementation to the nuclei isolation buffer was needed to efficiently pull down 24-nt siRNAs. This result indicates that ATP is required for efficient siRNA loading onto AGO4. As most of the known RNA-mediated regulatory processes occur in the nucleus, our findings on cross-linking conditions and metabolite requirement for successful AGO4 nuclear RNA-IP provide a valuable insight and future consideration when studying the function of protein-RNA interactions in plants.

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ImmunoprecipitationArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsCross-Linking ReagentsProtein BindingRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, NuclearRNA, PlantArabidopsis ProteinsCross-Linking ReagentsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, NuclearRNA, Plant

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