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Transcriptome-Wide Analysis of the 5' Cap Status of RNA Using 5' Monophosphate-Dependent Exonuclease Digestion and
Maxime Wery1, Ugo Szachnowski2, Sara Andjus2
1ncRNA, Epigenetic and Genome Fluidity, CNRS UMR3244, Sorbonne Université, PSL University, Institut Curie, Paris, France. maxime.wery@curie.fr.
Abstract:
Eukaryotic mRNAs carry an N7-methylguanosine (m7G) cap structure at their 5' extremity, which protects them from the degradation by 5'-3' exoribonucleases and plays a pivotal role in mRNA metabolism, promoting splicing, nuclear export, and translation. Decapping, the enzymatic process that removes this structure, is a key event during cytoplasmic mRNA 5'-3' decay, leading to the degradation of the transcript body by Xrn1. In this chapter, we describe a procedure to assess the cap status of RNA at the transcriptome level. It is based on a treatment of total RNA extracts with a 5' monophosphate-dependent exonuclease, which like Xrn1 specifically degrades decapped RNAs harboring 5' monophosphate extremities, but not RNAs with intact m7G cap. The digested RNAs are then analyzed by RNA sequencing.
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