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ArticleNature chemical biology2014

Electrophilic activity-based RNA probes reveal a self-alkylating RNA for RNA labeling.

Richard I McDonald, John P Guilinger, Shankar Mukherji, Edward A Curtis, Won I Lee, David R Liu

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard I McDonald1] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
John P Guilinger1] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Shankar Mukherji1] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Edward A Curtis1] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Won I Lee1] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 000000031451999X
David R Liu1] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Training Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative GenomicsT32HG002295 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Peter J Park · 2001 to 2026
$15.8M
Synthesis and Discovery Through DNA-Templated ChemistryR01GM065865 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, DAVID R · 2003 to 2015
$5.1M
An Unbiased Chemical Approach for the Discovery of Naturally Occurring RibozymesF32GM099359 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MCDONALD, RICHARD IAN · 2012 to 2013
$101k
Regulation of organelle function by spatiotemporal control of gene expressionF32GM101751 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MUKHERJI, ARINDAM SHANKAR · 2013 to 2013
$52k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002295NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM099359NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM099359NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM101751NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM101751NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probes that form covalent bonds with RNA molecules on the basis of their chemical reactivity would advance our ability to study the transcriptome. We developed a set of electrophilic activity-based RNA probes designed to react with unusually nucleophilic RNAs. We used these probes to identify reactive genome-encoded RNAs, resulting in the discovery of a 42-nt catalytic RNA from an archaebacterium that reacts with a 2,3-disubstituted epoxide at N7 of a specific guanosine. Detailed characterization of the catalytic RNA revealed the structural requirements for reactivity. We developed this catalytic RNA into a general tool to selectively conjugate a small molecule to an RNA of interest. This strategy enabled up to 500-fold enrichment of target RNA from total mammalian RNA or from cell lysate. We demonstrated the utility of this approach by selectively capturing proteins in yeast cell lysate that bind the ASH1 mRNA.

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AlkylationArchaeaBase SequenceCell ExtractsEpoxy CompoundsGuanosineHEK293 CellsHumansMolecular Sequence DataRepressor ProteinsRNA, CatalyticRNA, MessengerRNA ProbesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSELEX Aptamer TechniqueASH1 protein, S cerevisiaeCell ExtractsEpoxy CompoundsGuanosineRepressor ProteinsRNA, CatalyticRNA, MessengerRNA ProbesSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

Identifiers

PMID25306441
PMCPMC4232462
OpenAlexW2041366444

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