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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2024

A new reagent for in vivo structure probing of RNA G and U residues that improves RNA structure prediction alone and combined with DMS.

Catherine A Douds, Paul Babitzke, Philip C Bevilacqua

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Catherine A DoudsDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-5039-2577
Paul BabitzkeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2481-1062
Philip C BevilacquaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA pcb5@psu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8074-3434
Pennsylvania State University · US

Funding

Regulation of transcription elongationR01GM098399 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI BABITZKE, PAUL L · 2012 to 2024
$3.6M
RNA folding and catalysis at the interface of biophysics and genomicsR35GM127064 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI PHILIP C BEVILACQUA · 2018 to 2026
$3.4M
Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (EGR) Predoctoral Training ProgramT32GM125592 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI REESE, JOSEPH C · 2018 to 2022
$920k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098399NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127064NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM125592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key to understanding the roles of RNA in regulating gene expression is knowing their structures in vivo. One way to obtain this information is through probing the structures of RNA with chemicals. To probe RNA structure directly in cells, membrane-permeable reagents that modify the Watson-Crick (WC) face of unpaired nucleotides can be used. Although dimethyl sulfate (DMS) has led to substantial insight into RNA structure, it has limited nucleotide specificity in vivo, with WC face reactivity only at adenine (A) and cytosine (C) at neutral pH. The reagent 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) was recently shown to modify the WC face of guanine (G) and uracil (U). Although useful at lower concentrations in experiments that measure chemical modifications by reverse transcription (RT) stops, at higher concentrations necessary for detection by mutational profiling (MaP), EDC treatment leads to degradation of RNA. Here, we demonstrate EDC-stimulated degradation of RNA in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. In an attempt to overcome these limitations, we developed a new carbodiimide reagent, 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide methiodide (ETC), which we show specifically modifies unpaired Gs and Us in vivo without substantial degradation of RNA. We establish ETC as a probe for MaP and optimize the RT conditions and computational analysis in

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GuanineNucleic Acid ConformationSulfuric Acid EstersUracilCarbodiimidesEscherichia coliIndicators and ReagentsRNARNA, BacterialRNA StabilityCarbodiimidesdimethyl sulfateGuanineIndicators and ReagentsRNARNA, BacterialSulfuric Acid EstersUracilcarbodiimideETCin vivo RNA probingmutational profilingRNA structure

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PMID38670632
PMCPMC11182018
OpenAlexW4395675900

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