Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Nab3 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was two-fold: on the one hand, we aimed to verify that the mutations inserted in the Nab3 binding sequences of PIC2 had indeed abrogated binding of Nab3 to the PIC2 transcript; on the other hand, we wanted to check whether differential binding of Nab3 to PIC2 would affect how the protein bound other targets in the genome. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).
Project description:Whole-proteome profiling enabled us to compare proteomic differences between a Saccharomyces cerevisiae parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. Previous experiments had established that disrupting Nab3 binding to PIC2 while maintaining Nrd1 binding to the same transcript led to severe growth defects, larger cell size, delayed cell cycle and resistance to oxidative stress. Following characterization of a PIC2-overexpressing mutant we established that these phenotypes were not related to Pic2 overabundance. Therefore, the purpose of this experiment was to determine (i) whether the proteomic signature of the mutant lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2 could account for the observed phenotypes and (ii) if the proteins that were differentially expressed in such mutant were targeted by Nab3 and Nrd1.
Project description:Whole-transcriptome sequencing allowed us to compare transcriptomic differences between a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. Previous experiments had established that disrupting Nab3 binding to PIC2 while maintaining Nrd1 binding to the same transcript led to severe growth defects, larger cell size, delayed cell cycle and resistance to oxidative stress. Following characterization of a PIC2-overexpressing mutant we established that these phenotypes were not related to Pic2 overabundance. Therefore, the purpose of this experiment was to determine (i) whether the transcriptomic signature of the mutant lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2 mutant could account for the observed phenotypes and (ii) if the transcripts that were differentially expressed in such mutant were targeted by Nab3 and Nrd1.
Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Nrd1 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was two-fold: on the one hand, we aimed to verify that the mutations inserted in the Nab3 binding sequences of PIC2 affected the binding of Nrd1 to the PIC2 transcript; on the other hand, we wanted to check whether differential binding of Nab3 to PIC2 would affect how the protein bound other targets in the genome. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).
Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Sen1 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was two-fold: on the one hand, we aimed to verify that the mutations inserted in the Nab3 binding sequences of PIC2 affected the binding of Sen1 to the PIC2 transcript; on the other hand, we wanted to check whether differential binding of Nab3 to PIC2 would affect how the protein bound other targets in the genome. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).
Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Rpo21 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP) and two derived mutants lacking Nab3 RNA-binding sites in PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was to determine that changes in the abundance of differentially expressed transcripts, which had been previously identified by RNA-sequencing, were not caused by alterations in Rpo21 occupancy and transcription. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).
Project description:Using CRAC, we compared the transcriptomic occupancy of Nab3 in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 parental strain (PIC2-GFP, i.e., WT) and two derived mutants overexpressing (pTEF1-PIC2) or lacking (KO) PIC2. The purpose of the experiment was to check whether overexpressing or preventing the expression of PIC2 (an established Nab3 mRNA target which, when overexpressed or deleted, causes severe cellular defects) would cause a re-distribution of Nab3 binding among its other target transcripts. Sequencing outputs were processed using the pyCRAC pipeline and peak calling was performed with DBPeaks, our newly developed package for identification and comparison of binding sites defined by RNA-binding footprinting techniques (e.g., CRAC, iCLIP, PAR-CLIP, etc.).