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HITS-CLIP yields genome-wide insights into brain alternative RNA processing

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Licatalosi, Donny D., Mele, Aldo, Fak, John J., Ule, Jernej, Kayikci, Melis, Chi, Sung Wook, Clark, Tyson A., Schweitzer, Anthony C. +4 more·2008·Nature

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Protein-RNA interactions have critical roles in all aspects of gene expression. However, applying biochemical methods to understand such interactions in living tissues has been challenging. Here we develop a genome-wide means of mapping protein-RNA binding sites in vivo, by high-throughput sequencing of RNA isolated by crosslinking immunoprecipitation (HITS-CLIP). HITS-CLIP analysis of the neuron-specific splicing factor Nova revealed extremely reproducible RNA-binding maps in multiple mouse brains. These maps provide genome-wide in vivo biochemical footprints confirming the previous prediction that the position of Nova binding determines the outcome of alternative splicing; moreover, they are sufficiently powerful to predict Nova action de novo. HITS-CLIP revealed a large number of Nova-RNA interactions in 3' untranslated regions, leading to the discovery that Nova regulates alternative polyadenylation in the brain. HITS-CLIP, therefore, provides a robust, unbiased means to identify functional protein-RNA interactions in vivo.

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Licatalosi, D. D., Mele, A., Fak, J. J., Ule, J., Kayikci, M., Chi, S. W., Clark, T. A., Schweitzer, A. C., Blume, J. E., Wang, X., Darnell, J. C., & Darnell, R. B.
Affiliations
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
  • Affymetrix (United States) (US)
  • Rockefeller University (US)
Corresponding author
Darnell, Robert B.
Venue
Nature
Published
2008-11
Volume
456
Issue
7221
Pages
464-469
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2044117548
Cited by
1,352
References
51
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FWCI
29.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS040955, R01 NS34389, R01NS034389)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD040647)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA regulation and disease
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Keywords
HITS-CLIP, RNA-protein interactions, alternative splicing, nova, alternative polyadenylation, 3' untranslated region, RNA binding sites, brain, neurons, splicing factors, genome-wide mapping
MeSH terms
Neuro-Oncological Ventral Antigen, Animals, Antigens, Neoplasm, Cell Line, Cross-Linking Reagents, Exons, Humans, Neurons, Organ Specificity, RNA, Messenger, RNA-Binding Proteins, Genome, Alternative Splicing, Neocortex, Genomics, Polyadenylation, Immunoprecipitation, Mice

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