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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

Profiling of 2'-O-Me in human rRNA reveals a subset of fractionally modified positions and provides evidence for ribosome heterogeneity.

Nicolai Krogh, Martin D Jansson, Sophia J Häfner, Disa Tehler, Ulf Birkedal, Mikkel Christensen-Dalsgaard, Anders H Lund, Henrik Nielsen

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicolai KroghDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Martin D JanssonBiotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Sophia J HäfnerBiotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Disa TehlerBiotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Ulf BirkedalDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Mikkel Christensen-DalsgaardDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark.
Anders H LundBiotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark anders.lund@bric.ku.dk.
Henrik NielsenDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200N, Denmark hamra@sund.ku.dk.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribose methylation is one of the two most abundant modifications in human ribosomal RNA and is believed to be important for ribosome biogenesis, mRNA selectivity and translational fidelity. We have applied RiboMeth-seq to rRNA from HeLa cells for ribosome-wide, quantitative mapping of 2'-O-Me sites and obtained a comprehensive set of 106 sites, including two novel sites, and with plausible box C/D guide RNAs assigned to all but three sites. We find approximately two-thirds of the sites to be fully methylated and the remainder to be fractionally modified in support of ribosome heterogeneity at the level of RNA modifications. A comparison to HCT116 cells reveals similar 2'-O-Me profiles with distinct differences at several sites. This study constitutes the first comprehensive mapping of 2'-O-Me sites in human rRNA using a high throughput sequencing approach. It establishes the existence of a core of constitutively methylated positions and a subset of variable, potentially regulatory positions, and paves the way for experimental analyses of the role of variations in rRNA methylation under different physiological or pathological settings.

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Base SequenceHCT116 CellsHeLa CellsHumansMethylationReproducibility of ResultsRibosomesRNA, RibosomalRNA, Small NucleolarSequence Analysis, RNARNA, RibosomalRNA, Small Nucleolar

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PMID27257078
PMCPMC5027482
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