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Purification of cross-linked RNA-protein complexes by phenol-toluol extraction.

Authors :
Urdaneta EC
Vieira-Vieira CH
Hick T
Wessels HH
Figini D
Moschall R
Medenbach J
Ohler U
Granneman S
Selbach M
Beckmann BM
Source :
Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2019 Mar 01; Vol. 10 (1), pp. 990. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Mar 01.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Recent methodological advances allowed the identification of an increasing number of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and their RNA-binding sites. Most of those methods rely, however, on capturing proteins associated to polyadenylated RNAs which neglects RBPs bound to non-adenylate RNA classes (tRNA, rRNA, pre-mRNA) as well as the vast majority of species that lack poly-A tails in their mRNAs (including all archea and bacteria). We have developed the Phenol Toluol extraction (PTex) protocol that does not rely on a specific RNA sequence or motif for isolation of cross-linked ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), but rather purifies them based entirely on their physicochemical properties. PTex captures RBPs that bind to RNA as short as 30 nt, RNPs directly from animal tissue and can be used to simplify complex workflows such as PAR-CLIP. Finally, we provide a global RNA-bound proteome of human HEK293 cells and the bacterium Salmonella Typhimurium.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
2041-1723
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Nature communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
30824702
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08942-3