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ArticleACS central science2021

Nanopore Dwell Time Analysis Permits Sequencing and Conformational Assignment of Pseudouridine in SARS-CoV-2.

Aaron M Fleming, Nicole J Mathewson, Shereen A Howpay Manage, Cynthia J Burrows

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Article in ACS central science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 79 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.

Aaron M FlemingDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2000-0310
Nicole J MathewsonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States.
Shereen A Howpay ManageDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States.
Cynthia J BurrowsDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-8529
University of Utah · US

Funding

Nanopore Detection of DNA DamageR01GM093099 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI BURROWS, CYNTHIA J · 2011 to 2021
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093099
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Direct RNA sequencing for the epitranscriptomic modification pseudouridine (Ψ), an isomer of uridine (U), was conducted with a protein nanopore sensor using a helicase brake to slowly feed the RNA into the sensor. Synthetic RNAs with 100% Ψ or U in 20 different known human sequence contexts identified differences during sequencing in the base-calling, ionic current, and dwell time in the nanopore sensor; however, the signals were found to have a dependency on the context that would result in biases when sequencing unknown samples. A solution to the challenge was the identification that the passage of Ψ through the helicase brake produced a long-range dwell time impact with less context bias that was used for modification identification. The data analysis approach was employed to analyze publicly available direct RNA sequencing data for SARS-CoV-2 RNA taken from cell culture to locate five conserved Ψ sites in the genome. Two sites were found to be substrates for pseudouridine synthase 1 and 7 in an in vitro assay, providing validation of the analysis. Utilization of the helicase as an additional sensor in direct RNA nanopore sequencing provides greater confidence in calling RNA modifications.

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PMID34729414
PMCPMC8554835
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