Assessing long-distance RNA sequence connectivity via RNA-templated DNA-DNA ligation
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyRNA Therapeutics Institute
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2015-04-13Keywords
D. melanogasterDscam1
RNA-templated
alternative splicing
chromosomes
fibronectin
genes
isoform
ligation
mouse
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Genetics and Genomics
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Many RNAs, including pre-mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs, can be thousands of nucleotides long and undergo complex post-transcriptional processing. Multiple sites of alternative splicing within a single gene exponentially increase the number of possible spliced isoforms, with most human genes currently estimated to express at least ten. To understand the mechanisms underlying these complex isoform expression patterns, methods are needed that faithfully maintain long-range exon connectivity information in individual RNA molecules. In this study, we describe SeqZip, a methodology that uses RNA-templated DNA-DNA ligation to retain and compress connectivity between distant sequences within single RNA molecules. Using this assay, we test proposed coordination between distant sites of alternative exon utilization in mouse Fn1, and we characterize the extraordinary exon diversity of Drosophila melanogaster Dscam1.Source
Elife. 2015 Apr 13;4:e03700. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03700. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.7554/eLife.03700Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/39754PubMed ID
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