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ArticleNature communications2024

Single-molecule RNA sizing enables quantitative analysis of alternative transcription termination.

Gerardo Patiño-Guillén, Jovan Pešović, Marko Panić, Dušanka Savić-Pavićević, Filip Bošković, Ulrich Felix Keyser

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gerardo Patiño-GuillénCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Jovan PešovićUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Centre for Human Molecular Genetics, Belgrade, Serbia.
Marko PanićUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Centre for Human Molecular Genetics, Belgrade, Serbia.
Dušanka Savić-PavićevićUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Centre for Human Molecular Genetics, Belgrade, Serbia.
Filip BoškovićCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. fnb24@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7663-2408
Ulrich Felix KeyserCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ufk20@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3188-5414
University of Belgrade · RSUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription, a critical process in molecular biology, has found many applications in RNA synthesis, including mRNA vaccines and RNA therapeutics. However, current RNA characterization technologies suffer from amplification and enzymatic biases that lead to loss of native information. Here, we introduce a strategy to quantitatively study both transcription and RNA polymerase behaviour by sizing RNA with RNA nanotechnology and nanopores. To begin, we utilize T7 RNA polymerase to transcribe linear DNA lacking termination sequences. Surprisingly, we discover alternative transcription termination in the origin of replication sequence. Next, we employ circular DNA without transcription terminators to perform rolling circle transcription. This allows us to gain valuable insights into the processivity and transcription behaviour of RNA polymerase at the single-molecule level. Our work demonstrates how RNA nanotechnology and nanopores may be used in tandem for the direct and quantitative analysis of RNA transcripts. This methodology provides a promising pathway for accurate RNA structural mapping by enabling the study of full-length RNA transcripts at the single-molecule level.

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RNATranscription, GeneticDNA, CircularDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesNanotechnologyDNA, CircularDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesRNA

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PMID38402271
PMCPMC10894232
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