Project description:Expression of 5'-tRFCys is significantly upregulated during breast cancer metastasis and suppression of 5'-tRFCys significantly reduced metastatic lung colonization of breast cancer. We identified Nucleolin (Ncl) as the direct binding partner of 5'-tRFCys. To identify the molecular mechanism underlying 5'-tRFCys promotion of breast cancer, we performed Ncl HITS-CLIP, RNA-Seq, Ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq) upon inhibition of 5'-tRFCys. These analyses reveal that 5'-tRFCys enhances Ncl binding to a subset of transcripts, resulting in increased transcript stability of those transcripts and expression.
Project description:To identify HNRNPA2B1 binding sites on endogenous nuclear RNAs, we performed HITS-CLIP for endogenous HNRNPA2B1 and RNA-seq to analyze the nuclear RNA under either METTL3 or HNRNPA2B1 depletion. Wild type MDA-MB-231 cells were subjected to the HITS-CLIP procedure on immunoprecipitated HNRNPA2B1 associated RNA obtained from the nuclear fraction (Licatalosi D, et al. 2008, Nature 456:464-U22). For RNA-seq, nuclear RNA was extracted from MDA-MB-231 or Hela cells knocked down for METTL3 or HNRNPA2B1.
Project description:In order to identify YBX1 binding sites on endogenous RNA, we performed HITS-CLIP on endogenous YBX1 We used a previously published method to perform HITS-CLIP on endogenous YBX1 (Licatalosi D, et al. 2008, Nature 456:464-U22)
Project description:In order to identify TARBP2 binding sites on endogenous RNA, we performed HITS-CLIP on a myc-tagged TARBP2 expressing cell-line (transient transfection) Cells were transfected with tagged TARBP2 vector (Origene) and 48-hr post-transfection, they were subjected to the HITS-CLIP procedure (Licatalosi D, et al. 2008, Nature 456:464-U22)