In vivo and transcriptome-wide identification of RNA binding protein target sites.
Mol Cell, 2011/12/09;44(5):828-40.
Jungkamp AC[1], Stoeckius M, Mecenas D, Grün D, Mastrobuoni G, Kempa S, Rajewsky N
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PMID: 22152485DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.11.009
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Abstract
Animal mRNAs are regulated by hundreds of RNA binding proteins (RBPs). The identification of RBP targets is crucial for understanding their function. A recent method, PAR-CLIP, uses photoreactive nucleosides to crosslink RBPs to target RNAs in cells prior to immunoprecipitation. Here, we establish iPAR-CLIP (in vivo PAR-CLIP) to determine, at nucleotide resolution, transcriptome-wide binding sites of GLD-1, a conserved, germline-specific translational repressor in C. elegans. We identified 439 reproducible target mRNAs and demonstrate an excellent dynamic range of target detection by iPAR-CLIP. Upon GLD-1 knockdown, protein but not mRNA expression of the 439 targets was specifically upregulated, demonstrating functionality. Finally, we discovered strongly conserved GLD-1 binding sites near the start codon of target genes. These sites are functional in vitro and likely confer strong repression in vivo. We propose that GLD-1 interacts with the translation machinery near the start codon, a so-far-unknown mode of gene regulation in eukaryotes.
MeSH terms
Animals; Binding Sites; Caenorhabditis elegans; Computational Biology; Cross-Linking Reagents; Immunoprecipitation; RNA, Helminth; RNA, Messenger; RNA-Binding Proteins; Transcriptome
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