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Development of a highly optimized procedure for the discovery of RNA G-quadruplexes by combining several strategies

Marc-Antoine Turcotte
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François Bolduc
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Anaïs Vannutelli
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Jérémie Mitteaux
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Jean-Pierre Perreault

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RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s) are non-canonical secondary structures that are formed by the selfassociation of guanine quartets and that are stabilized by monovalent cations (e.g. potassium). rG4s are key elements in several post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms, including both messenger RNA (mRNA) and microRNA processing, mRNA transport and translation, to name but a few examples. Over the past few years, multiple high-throughput approaches have been developed in order to identify rG4s, including bioinformatic prediction, in vitro assays and affinity capture experiments coupled to RNA sequencing. Each individual approach had its limits, and thus yielded only a fraction of the potential rG4 that are further confirmed (i.e., there is a significant level of false positive). This report aims to benefit from the strengths of several existing approaches to identify rG4s with a high potential of being folded in cells. Briefly, rG4s were pulled-down from cell lysates using the biotinylated biomimetic G4 ligand BioTASQ and the sequences thus isolated were then identified by RNA sequencing. Then, a novel bioinformatic pipeline that included DESeq2 to identify rG4 enriched transcripts, MACS2 to identify rG4 peaks, rG4-seq to increase rG4 formation probability and G4RNA Screener to detect putative rG4s was performed. This workflow uncovers new rG4 candidates whose rG4-folding was then confirmed in vitro using an array of established biophysical methods. Clearly, this workflow led to the identification of novel rG4s in a highly specific and reliable manner.
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hal-04234600 , version 1 (10-10-2023)

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Marc-Antoine Turcotte, François Bolduc, Anaïs Vannutelli, Jérémie Mitteaux, David Monchaud, et al.. Development of a highly optimized procedure for the discovery of RNA G-quadruplexes by combining several strategies. Biochimie, 2023, 214, pp.24-32. ⟨10.1016/j.biochi.2023.07.014⟩. ⟨hal-04234600⟩
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