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ArticleMolecular cell2015

Tracking Distinct RNA Populations Using Efficient and Reversible Covalent Chemistry.

Erin E Duffy, Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg, Catherine D Stark, Robert R Kitchen, Mark B Gerstein, Matthew D Simon

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Article in Molecular cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers.

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136 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Erin E DuffyDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Michael Rutenberg-SchoenbergDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Catherine D StarkDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Robert R KitchenDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Mark B GersteinDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Matthew D SimonDepartment of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA. Electronic address: matthew.simon@yale.edu.

Funding

Skill Development for Diverse Scientific Careers: A New Course Predoctoral Program in Cellular and Molecular BiologyT32GM007223 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BASERGA, SUSAN J · 1985 to 2019
$31.0M
Integrating RNAs into signaling pathways by engineering covalent RNA modificationDP2HD083992 · NICHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SIMON, MATTHEW DAVID · 2014 to 2014
$2.5M
NCCDPHP CDC HHS DP2 1DP2HD083992NICHD NIH HHS DP2 HD083992NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007223
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a chemical method to label and purify 4-thiouridine (s(4)U)-containing RNA. We demonstrate that methanethiosulfonate (MTS) reagents form disulfide bonds with s(4)U more efficiently than the commonly used HPDP-biotin, leading to higher yields and less biased enrichment. This increase in efficiency allowed us to use s(4)U labeling to study global microRNA (miRNA) turnover in proliferating cultured human cells without perturbing global miRNA levels or the miRNA processing machinery. This improved chemistry will enhance methods that depend on tracking different populations of RNA, such as 4-thiouridine tagging to study tissue-specific transcription and dynamic transcriptome analysis (DTA) to study RNA turnover.

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BiotinCell ProliferationDisulfidesGene Expression ProfilingHEK293 CellsHumansIndicators and ReagentsMesylatesMicroRNAsOrganic Chemistry PhenomenaRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalThiouridineBiotinDisulfidesIndicators and ReagentsMesylatesmethanethiosulfonateMicroRNAsN-(6-(biotinamido)hexyl)-3'-(2'-pyridyldithio)propionamideThiouridine

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PMID26340425
PMCPMC4560836

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