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Enzyme-mediated alkynylation enables transcriptome-wide identification of pseudouridine modifications

Wang, Y.; Zhang, L.; Zhang, W.; Gao, B.; Ye, C.; Dai, Q.; Wang, K.; Luo, M.; Pan, T.; He, C.

2023-06-18 biochemistry
10.1101/2023.06.18.545436 bioRxiv
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Pseudouridine ({Psi}) is one of the most abundant chemical modifications that exists in various types of RNA species and is known to play important roles in RNA function. The advances in studies of {Psi} in less abundant messenger RNA species have been hindered by a lack of suitable methods to precisely and sensitively map their distributions. Here we show that a methyltransferase from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii can label RNA {Psi} efficiently and specifically with various functional groups, both in isolated RNA and inside cells. We leveraged this enzymatic labeling strategy to develop ELAP-seq as a facile method to enrich {Psi}-modified transcripts for the detection of {Psi} modifications at single base resolution with high sensitivity and low background. Using this method, we identified over 10, 000 candidate {Psi} sites from human transcripts, which provides new insights into {Psi} biosynthesis and function. Our study provides a chemical biology method that specifically labels {Psi} for its detection and functional alteration.

Published in Nature Communications (predicted rank #1) · training set

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