High-throughput mapping of RNA solvent accessibility at the single-nucleotide resolution by RtcB ligation between a fixed 5′-OH-end linker and unique 3′-P-end fragments from hydroxyl radical cleavage

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Solayman, Md
Litfin, Thomas
Zhou, Yaoqi
Zhan, Jian
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2022
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Given the challenges for the experimental determination of RNA tertiary structures, probing solvent accessibility has become increasingly important to gain functional insights. Among various chemical probes developed, backbone-cleaving hydroxyl radical is the only one that can provide unbiased detection of all accessible nucleotides. However, the readouts have been based on reverse transcription (RT) stop at the cleaving sites, which are prone to false positives due to PCR amplification bias, early drop-off of reverse transcriptase, and the use of random primers in RT reaction. Here, we introduced a fixed-primer method called RL-Seq by performing RtcB Ligation (RL) between a fixed 5′-OH-end linker and unique 3′-P-end fragments from hydroxyl radical cleavage prior to high-throughput sequencing. The application of this method to E. coli ribosomes confirmed its ability to accurately probe solvent accessibility with high sensitivity (low required sequencing depth) and accuracy (strong correlation to structure-derived values) at the single-nucleotide resolution. Moreover, a near-perfect correlation was found between the experiments with and without using unique molecular identifiers, indicating negligible PCR biases in RL-Seq. Further improvement of RL-Seq and its potential transcriptome-wide applications are discussed.

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RNA Biology

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19

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1

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Glycobiology

Medical molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins

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Biochemistry and cell biology

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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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hydroxyl radical

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Solayman, M; Litfin, T; Zhou, Y; Zhan, J, High-throughput mapping of RNA solvent accessibility at the single-nucleotide resolution by RtcB ligation between a fixed 5′-OH-end linker and unique 3′-P-end fragments from hydroxyl radical cleavage, RNA Biology, 2022, 19 (1), pp. 1179-1189

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