iCLIP - Transcriptome-wide Mapping of Protein-RNA Interactions with Individual Nucleotide ResolutionJulian Konig 1, Kathi Zarnack 2, Gregor Rot 3, Tomaz Curk 3, Melis Kayikci 1, Blaz Zupan 3, Daniel J. Turner 4, Nicholas M. Luscombe 2, Jernej Ule 1
1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council - MRC, 2European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Heidelberg, 3Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, 4Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
The spatial arrangement of RNA-binding proteins on a transcript is a key determinant of post-transcriptional regulation. Therefore, we developed individual-nucleotide resolution UV crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (iCLIP) that allows precise genome-wide mapping of the binding sites of an RNA-binding protein.