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ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2017

Metabolic labeling and recovery of nascent RNA to accurately quantify mRNA stability.

Joseph Russo, Adam M Heck, Jeffrey Wilusz, Carol J Wilusz

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Article in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph RussoDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States.
Adam M HeckProgram in Cell & Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States.
Jeffrey WiluszDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States; Program in Cell & Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States. Electronic address: jeffrey.wilusz@colostate.edu.
Carol J WiluszDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States; Program in Cell & Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States.
Colorado State University · US

Funding

Post-Transcriptional RNA Regulons in Stem CellsR01GM114247 · NIGMS · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WILUSZ, CAROL J, WILUSZ, JEFFREY · 2015 to 2018
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in the rate of mRNA decay are closely coordinated with transcriptional changes and together these events have profound effects on gene expression during development and disease. Traditional approaches to assess mRNA decay have relied on inhibition of transcription, which can alter mRNA decay rates and confound interpretation. More recently, metabolic labeling combined with chemical modification and fractionation of labeled RNAs has allowed the isolation of nascent transcripts and the subsequent calculation of mRNA decay rates. This approach has been widely adopted for measuring mRNA half-lives on a global scale, but has proven challenging to use for analysis of single genes. We present a series of normalization and quality assurance steps to be used in combination with 4-thiouridine pulse labeling of cultured eukaryotic cells. Importantly, we demonstrate how the relative amount of 4sU-labeled nascent RNA influences accurate quantification. The approach described facilitates reproducible measurement of individual mRNA half-lives using 4-thiouridine and could be adapted for use with other nucleoside analogs.

Indexed as

RNA StabilityTranscription, GeneticAffinity LabelsAnimalsBiotinylationCell LineEukaryotic CellsHalf-LifeHumansMiceQuality ControlReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerStaining and LabelingThiouridineAffinity LabelsRNA, MessengerThiouridine4-Thiouridine labelingDigital PCRmRNA decaymRNA stabilityRNA biotinylation

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PMID28219744
PMCPMC5447484
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