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Illustrating the Epitranscriptome at Nucleotide Resolution Using Methylation-iCLIP (miCLIP)

George, H; Ule, J; Hussain, S; (2017) Illustrating the Epitranscriptome at Nucleotide Resolution Using Methylation-iCLIP (miCLIP). Methods in Molecular Biology , 1562 pp. 91-106. 10.1007/978-1-4939-6807-7_7. Green open access

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Abstract

Next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled the transcriptome to be profiled at a previously unprecedented speed and depth. This yielded insights into fundamental transcriptomic processes such as gene transcription, RNA processing, and mRNA splicing. Immunoprecipitation-based transcriptomic methods such as individual nucleotide resolution crosslinking immunoprecipitation (iCLIP) have also allowed high-resolution analysis of the RNA interactions of a protein of interest, thus revealing new regulatory mechanisms. We and others have recently modified this method to profile RNA methylation, and we refer to this customized technique as methylation-iCLIP (miCLIP). Variants of miCLIP have been used to map the methyl-5-cytosine (m5C) or methyl-6-adenosine (m6A) modification at nucleotide resolution in the human transcriptome. Here we describe the m5C-miCLIP protocol, discuss how it yields the nucleotide-resolution RNA modification maps, and comment on how these have contributed to the new field of molecular genetics research coined "epitranscriptomics."

Type: Article
Title: Illustrating the Epitranscriptome at Nucleotide Resolution Using Methylation-iCLIP (miCLIP)
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6807-7_7
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6807-7_7
Language: English
Additional information: © Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2017. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Epitranscriptome, Epitranscriptomics, Methylation-iCLIP, NSun2, RNA methylation, miCLIP
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1550151
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