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CAP(+) selection: A combined chemical-enzymatic strategy for efficient eukaryotic messenger RNA enrichment via the 5'
Benjamin Weiss1, Joseph A Curran2
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are generally enriched using oligo(dT) selection. However, a significant fraction of mRNAs contain either short or no poly(A). Our technique permits the isolation of mRNAs via their unique biochemical feature, the 5' cap. It involves RNA extraction, blocking of the 3' ribose cis-diol by cordycepin, oxidation of the 5' cis-diol of the CAP to a dialdehyde, coupling to a biotinylated linker, and enrichment on a streptavidin affinity matrix. We demonstrate that it efficiently pulls out a synthetic capped and non-polyadenylated transcript used to spike total cell RNA as well as endogenous histone 3c mRNA reported to be poly(A) negative.
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