Article Dans Une Revue Nature Methods Année : 2023

Nano-DMS-MaP allows isoform-specific RNA structure determination

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Abstract Genome-wide measurements of RNA structure can be obtained using reagents that react with unpaired bases, leading to adducts that can be identified by mutational profiling on next-generation sequencing machines. One drawback of these experiments is that short sequencing reads can rarely be mapped to specific transcript isoforms. Consequently, information is acquired as a population average in regions that are shared between transcripts, thus blurring the underlying structural landscape. Here, we present nanopore dimethylsulfate mutational profiling (Nano-DMS-MaP)—a method that exploits long-read sequencing to provide isoform-resolved structural information of highly similar RNA molecules. We demonstrate the value of Nano-DMS-MaP by resolving the complex structural landscape of human immunodeficiency virus-1 transcripts in infected cells. We show that unspliced and spliced transcripts have distinct structures at the packaging site within the common 5′ untranslated region, likely explaining why spliced viral RNAs are excluded from viral particles. Thus, Nano-DMS-MaP is a straightforward method to resolve biologically important transcript-specific RNA structures that were previously hidden in short-read ensemble analyses.

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hal-05362507 , version 1 (13-11-2025)

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Patrick Bohn, Anne-Sophie Gribling-Burrer, Uddhav Ambi, Redmond Smyth. Nano-DMS-MaP allows isoform-specific RNA structure determination. Nature Methods, 2023, 20 (6), pp.849-859. ⟨10.1038/s41592-023-01862-7⟩. ⟨hal-05362507⟩
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