Project description:UV cross-linking and immunoprecipiatation with high throughput sequencing of cytoplasmic SLBP RNP Polyclonal α-SLBP antibody was used to immunoprecipitate UV-crosslinked SLBP RNP from cytoplasmic HeLa lysates. Mock immunoprecipitation were also performed and serve as a negative control.
Project description:To elucidate the role of HNRNPU in regulation of lncRNAs nuclear localization, we knocked down HNRNPU in K562 cells using short interfering RNAs and performed subcellular RNA-seq using nuclear or cytosolic RNAs
Project description:Hnrnpu is the largest member of the heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoprotein family of RNA binding proteins. Hnrnpu is involved in pre-mRNA alternative splicing regulation. We used high throughput sequencing to determine how Hnrnpu regulates skeletal muscle physiology.
Project description:We developed a method for measuring non-specific background in PAR-CLIP data demonstrating that covalently crosslinked background binding is common, reproducible and apparently universal. Furthermore, we show that quantitative determination of background is essential for identifying targets of weakly binding RNA-binding proteins and can substantially improve motif analysis. To define background binding events in PAR-CLIP data we performed the standard PAR-CLIP protocol (Hafner et al., Cell 2010.) on lysates expressing a commonly used non-RBP control, FLAG-GFP. After FLAG-tag immunopurification of UV 365nm irradiated lysates prepared from cells supplemented with 4-thiouridine (4SU), RNA was partially digested with RNase T1, radiolabeled and separated by SDS-PAGE. Reads were sequenced by Illumina HiSeq. PAR-CLIP was also performed for HuR. Included as well is a total from lysates treated like PAR-CLIP, but without immunoprecipitation (see sample description for more detail).