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Improved genome-wide mapping of uncapped and cleaved transcripts in eukaryotes—GMUCT 2.0

ABSTRACT: The advent of high-throughput sequencing has led to an explosion of studies into the diversity, expression, processing, and lifespan of RNAs. Recently, three different high-throughput sequencing-based methods have been developed to specifically study RNAs that are in the process of being degraded. All three methods—genome-wide mapping of uncapped and cleaved transcripts (GMUCT), parallel analysis of RNA ends (PARE), and degradome sequencing—take advantage of the fact that Illumina sequencing libraries use T4 RNA ligase 1 to ligate an adapter to the 5’ end of RNAs that have a free 5’-monophosphate. This condition for T4 RNA ligase 1 substrates means that mature mRNAs are not substrates of the enzyme because they have a 5’-cap. As a result, these sequencing libraries are specifically made up of clones of decapped or degrading mRNAs and the 3’ fragment of cleaved miRNA and siRNA targets. In this paper, we present a massively streamlined protocol for GMUCT that takes 2-3 days and can be initiated with as little as 5 µg of starting total RNA and involves only one gel size-selection step. We show that the results are similar to libraries made using the previous GMUCT protocol and PARE.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE47121 | GEO | 2014/03/08

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA203678

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:We were interested in identifying targets of novel putative miRNAs we identified from small RNA sequencing libraries of Arabidopsis shoots. The small RNA (smRNA) sequencing libraries were made to identify changes in abundance of specific smRNAs in response to developmental transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana shoots, with special focus on vegetative phase change. We specifically wanted to separate the temporal changes in gene expression that result from vegetative phase change and those from flowering. Because of the close timing between the juvenile-to-adult and adult-to-reproductive developmental transitions in Arabidopsis grown under long day conditions, we used the late-flowering genotype FRI;FLC developed by the lab of Richard Amasino by introgressing the FRI allele from Sf-2 into the Col-0 genetic background, which is fri;FLC. For the early flowering genotype, we used FRI;flc-3, also developed by the Amasino lab by EMS-mutagenizing FRI;FLC, identifying early flowering mutants, and backcrossing multiple times to eliminate other EMS-induced mutations. The onset of vegetative phase change in FRI;FLC and FRI;flc-3 under our growth conditions was identical, but the progression was slower in FRI;FLC. By sequencing small RNAs from shoot apices at different time points and fully-expanded leaves at different positions on the shoot and comparing the results between the two genotypes, we were able to obtain a clear picture of changes in small RNA abundance in response to vegetative phase change and flowering in Arabidopsis. We then used the remaining RNA to make genome-wide mapping of uncapped and cleaved transcripts (GMUCT) 2.0 libraries of a subset of our samples. GMUCT 2.0 allows you to identify RNAs that are 1) uncapped and in the process of 5’->3’ exonuclease degradation and 2) miRNA and siRNA-mediated cleavage products. We wanted to use these GMUCT 2.0 libraries to identify targets of novel putative miRNAs discovered by our smRNA sequencing, thereby supporting the idea that these novel putative miRNAs are in fact functional.

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Improved genome-wide mapping of uncapped and cleaved transcripts in eukaryotes—GMUCT 2.0

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