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ArticleMolecular cell2016

SONAR Discovers RNA-Binding Proteins from Analysis of Large-Scale Protein-Protein Interactomes.

Kristopher W Brannan, Wenhao Jin, Stephanie C Huelga, Charles A S Banks, Joshua M Gilmore, Laurence Florens, Michael P Washburn, Eric L Van Nostrand, Gabriel A Pratt, Marie K Schwinn and 2 more

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Article in Molecular cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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112citing papers in PubMed
12.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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112 citing papers in PubMed, 190 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Kristopher W BrannanDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cell Program and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Wenhao JinDepartment of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore, Singapore.
Stephanie C HuelgaDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cell Program and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Charles A S BanksStowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
Joshua M GilmoreStowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
Laurence FlorensStowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
Michael P WashburnStowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Eric L Van NostrandDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cell Program and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Gabriel A PrattDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cell Program and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Marie K SchwinnPromega Corporation, 2800 Woods Hollow Road, Madison, WI 53711, USA.
Danette L DanielsPromega Corporation, 2800 Woods Hollow Road, Madison, WI 53711, USA.
Gene W YeoDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Stem Cell Program and Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 117597 Singapore, Singapore; Molecular Engineering Laboratory, A(∗)STAR, 138673 Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: geneyeo@ucsd.edu.
University of California, San Diego · USStowers Institute for Medical Research · USPromega (United States) · USNational University of Singapore · SGUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · US

Funding

VIRAL MALIGNANCYP30CA023100 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DIANE M SIMEONE · 1985 to 2026
$124.9M
Comprhensive analysis of functional RNA elements encoded in the human genomeU54HG007005 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI GRAVELEY, BRENTON R. · 2012 to 2017
$12.5M
Functional RNA elements in the human genomeR01HG004659 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Kevin Daniel Corbett, Eugene Wei-Ming Yeo · 2008 to 2026
$12.4M
Training Program in Basic Clinical GeneticsT32GM008666 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HAMILTON, BRUCE A · 1998 to 2021
$8.6M
Defining the messenger RNP code in the brainR01NS075449 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI YEO, EUGENE WEI-MING · 2012 to 2016
$3.0M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023100NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004659NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG007005NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008666NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS075449
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA metabolism is controlled by an expanding, yet incomplete, catalog of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), many of which lack characterized RNA binding domains. Approaches to expand the RBP repertoire to discover non-canonical RBPs are currently needed. Here, HaloTag fusion pull down of 12 nuclear and cytoplasmic RBPs followed by quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) demonstrates that proteins interacting with multiple RBPs in an RNA-dependent manner are enriched for RBPs. This motivated SONAR, a computational approach that predicts RNA binding activity by analyzing large-scale affinity precipitation-MS protein-protein interactomes. Without relying on sequence or structure information, SONAR identifies 1,923 human, 489 fly, and 745 yeast RBPs, including over 100 human candidate RBPs that contain zinc finger domains. Enhanced CLIP confirms RNA binding activity and identifies transcriptome-wide RNA binding sites for SONAR-predicted RBPs, revealing unexpected RNA binding activity for disease-relevant proteins and DNA binding proteins.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsMolecular Sequence AnnotationAnimalsBinding SitesCell NucleusCytoplasmDrosophila melanogasterGene ExpressionGene OntologyHEK293 CellsHumansNucleotide MotifsProtein BindingProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsRNARNA-Binding ProteinsRNARNA-Binding Proteinsmachine-learningprotein-protein interaction networksRNA-binding proteinssupport vector machine

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PMID27720645
PMCPMC5074894
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