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ArticleScientific reports2024

Nanopore signal deviations from pseudouridine modifications in RNA are sequence-specific: quantification requires dedicated synthetic controls.

Amr Makhamreh, Sepideh Tavakoli, Ali Fallahi, Xinqi Kang, Howard Gamper, Mohammad Nabizadehmashhadtoroghi, Miten Jain, Ya-Ming Hou, Sara H Rouhanifard, Meni Wanunu

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Amr MakhamrehDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Sepideh TavakoliDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Ali FallahiDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Xinqi KangDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Howard GamperDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mohammad NabizadehmashhadtoroghiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Miten JainDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Ya-Ming HouDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sara H RouhanifardDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. s.rouhanifard@northeastern.edu.
Meni WanunuDepartment of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. wanunu@neu.edu.

Funding

Synthetic mRNA Control Set for Nanopore-Based Pseudouridine Modification Profiling in Human TranscriptomesR01HG012856 · NHGRI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Sara Hakim Rouhanifard · 2023 to 2026
$3.4M
Twice reading of RNA by direct nanopore sequencingR01HG013302 · NHGRI · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI Ya-Ming Hou · 2024 to 2026
$2.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012856NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG013302
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical modifications to mRNA respond dynamically to environmental cues and are important modulators of gene expression. Nanopore direct RNA sequencing has been applied for assessing the presence of pseudouridine (ψ) modifications through basecalling errors and signal analysis. These approaches strongly depend on the sequence context around the modification, and the occupancies derived from these measurements are not quantitative. In this work, we combine direct RNA sequencing of synthetic RNAs bearing site-specific modifications and supervised machine learning models (ModQuant) to achieve near-analytical, site-specific ψ quantification. Our models demonstrate that the ionic current signal features important for accurate ψ classification are sequence dependent and encompass information extending beyond n + 2 and n - 2 nucleotides from the ψ site. This is contradictory to current models, which assume that accurate ψ classification can be achieved with signal information confined to the 5-nucleotide k-mer window (n + 2 and n - 2 nucleotides from the ψ site). We applied our models to quantitatively profile ψ occupancy in five mRNA sites in datasets from seven human cell lines, demonstrating conserved and variable sites. Our study motivates a wider pipeline that uses ground-truth RNA control sets with site-specific modifications for quantitative profiling of RNA modifications. The ModQuant pipeline and guide are freely available at https://github.com/wanunulab/ModQuant .

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PseudouridineRNA, MessengerHumansNanoporesRNASequence Analysis, RNAPseudouridineRNARNA, Messenger

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PMID39341872
PMCPMC11438862

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