Abstract
The ribose of RNA nucleotides can be 2′-O-methylated (Nm). Despite advances in high-throughput detection, the inert chemical nature of Nm still limits sensitivity and precludes mapping in mRNA. We leveraged the differential reactivity of 2′-O-methylated and 2′-hydroxylated nucleosides to periodate oxidation to develop Nm-seq, a sensitive method for transcriptome-wide mapping of Nm with base precision. Nm-seq uncovered thousands of Nm sites in human mRNA with features suggesting functional roles.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 695-698 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Nature Methods |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 15 May 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health NHGRI RM1 HG008935 to C.H.; a grant from the Kahn Family Foundation to D.D. and G.R.; and grants from the Ernest and Bonnie Beutler Research Program, Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) and the Israeli Centers of Excellence (I-CORE) Program (ISF grants no. 41/11 and no. 1796/12) to G.R. C.H. is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). G.R. is a member of the Sagol Neuroscience Network and holds the Djerassi Chair for Oncology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. D.D. was supported by a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) long-term fellowship. Q.D. is supported by the National Institutes of Health grant K01 HG006699. We wish to thank M. Salmon-Divon for advice and help with bioinformatic analysis and R. Mashiach for help with chemical structure drawings.
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