Name: mapping rna-rna interactions globally using biotinylated psoralen
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Vi tackar medlemmarna av Wan Lab och Nagarajan Lab för informativa diskussioner. N.Nagarajan stöds av finansiering från A * STAR. Y.Wan stöds av finansiering från A * STAR och Society i Science-Branco Weiss Fellowship.

1. Behandling av HeLa-celler med biotinylerad psoralen och RNA-extraktion <ol><li> Culture HeLa-celler i Dulbeccos modifierade Eagle-medium (DMEM) kompletterat med 10% fetalt bovinserum (FBS) och 1% penicillin streptomycin (PS) i en 10 cm-platta. </li><li> Tvätta HeLa-cellerna två gånger med 5 ml 1x PBS. Tappa överskott av PBS helt ur skålen genom att placera skålen vertikalt i 1 min. </li><li> Tillsätt 1 ml PBS innehållande 200 μM biotinylerad psoralen och 0,01% vikt / volym digitonin, till cellerna jämnt o...

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Här beskriver vi i detalj det experimentella och beräknade arbetsflödet för SPLASH, en metod som gör det möjligt för oss att identifiera parvisa RNA-interaktioner på ett genomgående sätt. Vi har framgångsrikt utnyttjat SPLASH i bakteriella, jäst- och mänskliga kulturer och förutse att strategin kan tillämpas allmänt på olika organismer under olika cellulära tillstånd. Ett av de kritiska stegen i protokollet är att börja med minst 20 | jg tvärbunden RNA för att ha tillräckligt material för nedstr...

Att studera hur makromolekyler viks och interagerar med varandra är nyckeln till att förstå genreglering i cellen. Medan mycket arbete har fokuserats under det senaste decenniet om att förstå hur DNA och proteiner bidrar till genreglering, är relativt mindre känt om post-transkriptionell reglering av genuttryck. RNA bär information i både sin linjära sekvens och i dess sekundära och tertiära struktur 1 . Dess förmåga att basera paret med sig själv och med andra är viktigt för sin funktion in vivo . Nyliga framsteg inom RNA-sekundärstrukturundersökning med hög genomströmning har givit värdefulla insikter i placeringen av dubbel- och enkelsträngade regioner i transkriptomen 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , howeVer information om parningsparametrarna saknas fortfarande i stor utsträckning. För att bestämma vilken RNA-sekvens som interagerar med en annan RNA-region i transkriptomen behöver vi global parvis information. Kartläggning av parvisa RNA-interaktioner på ett globalt, opartiskt sätt har traditionellt varit en stor utmaning. Medan tidigare tillvägagångssätt, såsom CLASH 9 , hiCLIP 10 och RAP 11 , används för att identifiera RNA-interaktioner i stor skala, kartlägger dessa tekniker typiskt RNA-basparning för en delmängd av RNA som antingen interagerar med ett visst protein eller RNA-species. Den senaste utvecklingen i studier av globala RNA-interaktioner inkluderar metoden RPL 12 , som inte stabiliserar RNA-interaktioner in vivo och kan därför endast fånga en delmängd av in vivo- interaktioner. För att övervinna dessa utmaningar utvecklade vi och andra genomgående, opartiska strategier för maP RNA-interaktomer in vivo , med användning av modifierade versioner av tvärbindningspsoralen 13 , 14 , 15 . I detta protokoll beskriver vi detaljerna för utförande av S- ekventering av P- soralt tvärbunden, L- igaterad och S valda H ybrids (SPLASH), vilken utnyttjar biotinylerad psoralen för att tvärbinda basparrings-RNA in vivo följt av närliggande ligering och hög genomströmningssekvensering till Identifiera RNA-basparparametrar genomgående ( Figur 1 ) 15 . I det här manuskriptet beskriver vi stegen för att utföra SPLASH med hjälp av odlade vidhäftande celler, i detta fall HeLa-celler. Samma protokoll kan lätt anpassas till suspensionsdäggdjursceller och till jäst- och bakterieceller. I korthet behandlas HeLa-celler med biotinylerad psoralen och bestrålas vid 365 nm för att tvärbinda interaktiva RNA-baspar in vivo. RNA: erna extraheras sedan från cellerna, fragmenteras och berikas för tvärbindningsregioner med användning av streptavidinpärlor. Interaktiva RNA-fragment ligeras sedan tillsammans med användning av närliggande ligering och gjordes i ett cDNA-bibliotek för djup sekventering. Vid sekvensering mappas de chimära RNA på transcriptomen / genomet för att identifiera de RNA-interagerande regionerna som är parade med varandra. Vi har framgångsrikt utnyttjat SPLASH för att identifiera tusentals RNA-interaktioner in vivo i jäst och olika humana celler, inklusive intramolekylär och intermolekylär RNA-basparning i olika klasser av RNA, såsom snoRNA, lncRNA och mRNA, för att glimta in i strukturorganisationen och interaktionsmönstren Av RNA i cellen.

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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">SAMTOOLS software</td>
			<td>1.2.1</td>
			<td>http://www.htslib.org/</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">PULLSEQ software</td>
			<td>1.0.2</td>
			<td>https://github.com/bcthomas/pullseq</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">STAR software</td>
			<td>2.5.0c</td>
			<td>https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">rem_dups.py PYTHON script</td>
			<td>PYTHON 2.7.11</td>
			<td>https://github.com/CSB5/splash/tree/master/src</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">find_chimeras.py PYTHON script</td>
			<td>PYTHON 2.7.11</td>
			<td>https://github.com/CSB5/splash/tree/master/src</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">pickJunctionReads.awk AWK script</td>
			<td>AWK GNU 4.1.2</td>
			<td>https://github.com/CSB5/splash/tree/master/src</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Elution buffer:&#160;</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.3 M sodium acetate</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Lysis Buffer:</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">50 mM Tris-Cl pH 7.0</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">10 mM EDTA</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">1% SDS</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Always add Superase-in fresh before use except when washing beads</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Proteinase K Buffer&#160;</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">100 mM NaCl</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">10 mM TrisCl pH 7.0</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">1 mM EDTA</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.5% SDS</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Hybridization Buffer</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">750 mM NaCl</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">1% SDS</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">50 mM Tris-Cl pH 7.0</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">1 mM EDTA</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">15% formamide (store in the dark at 4 &#176;C)</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Always add Superase-in fresh before use</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">2x SSC Wash Buffer</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">2x NaCl and Sodium citrate (SSC) (diluted from 20x SSC Invitrogen stock)</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.5% SDS</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">2X RNA fragmentation buffer</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">18mM MgCl2</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">450mM KCl</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">300mM Tris-CL pH 8.3</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">2x RNA loading Dye:</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">95% Formamide</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.02% SDS</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.02% bromophenol blue</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">0.01% Xylene Cyanol</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">1mM EDTA&#160;</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">3&#39; RNA adapter sequence</td>
			<td>5rAppCTGTAGGCACCATCAAT/3ddC</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">RT primer sequence</td>
			<td>AGATCGGAAGAGCGTCGTGTAGGGAAAGAGTGTAGATCTCGGTGGTCGC/iSp18/CACTCA/iSp18/TTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCTATTGATGGTGCCTACAG</td>
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mapping rna-rna interactions globally using biotinylated psoralen

Att veta hur RNA interagerar med sig själva och med andra är nyckeln till förståelsen av RNA-baserad genreglering i cellen. Även om exempel på RNA-RNA-interaktioner såsom mikroRNA-mRNA-interaktioner har visat sig reglera genuttryck, är den fullständiga utsträckning som RNA-interaktioner uppträder i cellen fortfarande okänd. Tidigare metoder för att studera RNA-interaktioner har huvudsakligen fokuserat på delmängder av RNA som interagerar med ett visst protein eller RNA-art. Här specificerar vi en metod som heter S- ekventering av P soralen tvärbunden, L igaterad och S valda H ybrids (SPLASH) som möjliggör genomgripande infångning av RNA-interaktioner in vivo på ett opartiskt sätt. SPLASH använder in vivo tvärbindning, närhetligering och hög genomströmningssekvensering för att identifiera intramolekylära och intermolekylära RNA-basparparametrar globalt. SPLASH kan appliceras på olika organismer inklusive bakterier, jäst och mänskliga celler, liksom aS olika cellulära förhållanden för att underlätta förståelsen av RNA-organisationens dynamik under olika cellulära sammanhang. Hela experimentella SPLASH-protokollet tar ungefär 5 dagar att slutföra och beräkningsflödet tar ungefär 7 dagar att slutföra.

Figur 1 visar schematisk av SPLASH-arbetsflödet. Vid tillsats av biotinylerad psoralen i närvaro av 0,01% digitonin och UV-tvärbindning extraheras totalt RNA från cellerna och en punktfläck utförs för att säkerställa att tvärbindning av biotinylerad till RNA har skett effektivt ( Figur 2 ). Vi använder biotinylerade 20 basoligoser som positiva kontroller för att titrera mängden biotinylerad psoralen som skall sätta...

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Mapping RNA-RNA Interactions Globally Using Biotinylated Psoralen

Här specificerar vi metoden för S- ekventering av P- sorolen tvärbunden, L igaterad och S väljs H ybrids (SPLASH), som möjliggör genomgående kartläggning av intramolekylära och intermolekylära RNA-RNA-interaktioner in vivo . SPLASH kan appliceras för att studera RNA-interaktomer av organismer inklusive jäst, bakterier och människor.

Kartläggning av RNA-RNA-interaktioner globalt med användning av biotinylerad psoralen

Knowing how RNAs interact with themselves and with others is key to understanding RNA based gene regulation in the cell. While examples of RNA-RNA ...

The overall goal of this video is to describe the method for sequencing of psoralen crosslinked ligated and selected hybrids or SPLASH in which pair-wise in vivo RNA-RNA interactions are mapped in a genome-wide manner. This technique is a simple, high throughput method for mapping the RNA interaction in vivo. This method can help answer key questions in the RNA genomics field such as how do different regions along a single strand of RNA or between different strands of RNAs interact with each other.Though this method can provide insights into yeast and human cells, it can also be applied to studies in other modern organisms including bacteria and membrane in cells. We first had the idea for this method when we wanted to come up with a way to map interaction molecular. Note that the following procedure contains several stopping points.At these times, the experiment can be paused briefly or indefinitely. Details can be found in the accompanying text. Begin this procedure by washing HeLa cells twice with five milliliters of PBS.Place the dish vertically for one minute to completely drain any excess PBS. Next, add one milliliter of PBS containing 200 micromolar biotinylated psoralen and 0.01%digitonin which increases cell permeability. Take care to add the solution evenly over the surface of the cells.Incubate at 37 degrees Celsius for five minutes. Following the incubation, remove the lid of the dish and place it on ice inside a UV Crosslinker three centimeters from the UV bulb. Irradiate with 365 nanometer UV for 20 minutes.After 20 minutes, remove the dish from the Crosslinker and then isolate fragment and precipitate the RNA from HeLa cells according to the instructions in the accompanying document. Load denatured ladder and RNA samples onto a 8.6 centimeter square 6%TBE-urea gel. Size fractionate by electrophoresis at 180 volts for 40 minutes.Stain the gel in 10 milliliters of TBE buffer containing a 1:10, 000 dilution of nucleic acid gel stain for five minutes in the dark. While the gel is staining, use a 24 gauge needle to puncture a clean 0.6 milliliter microfuge tube at the bottom. Place it in a two milliliter microfuge tube.Using a transilluminator, visualize the bands on the post-stained gel and cut a gel slice corresponding to 90 to 110 nucleotides. Transfer the gel slice into the punctured 0.6 milliliter microfuge tube in the two milliliter microfuge tube. Size selection allows us to set the minimal length for the chimeric fragments and to distinguish between ligated products and non-ligated products later on.Centrifuge the gel slices at 12, 000 times g at room temperature for two minutes to shred the gel slice and collect it in the two milliliter microfuge tube. After the spin, discard the empty 0.6 milliliter microfuge tube. To the shredded gel slice, add 700 microliters of elution buffer.Incubate at four degrees Celsius overnight with constant rotation to allow diffusion of the samples into the buffer. Transfer the gel slices and the elution buffer to a centrifuge tube filter and centrifuge at 20, 000 times g for 20 minutes. After the spin, the gel slices will be trapped at the top compartment of the filter which may be discarded.Precipitate and quantify the RNA as described in the accompanying document. Flash freeze and store the RNA at minus 80 degrees Celsius in liquid nitrogen until it is used. To enrich RNA crosslinking regions, begin by adding 100 microliters of lysis buffer containing RNase inhibitor to wash streptavidin-coated magnetic beads in a microfuge tube.To a 15 milliliter conical centrifuge tube, add two milliliters of freshly-prepared hybridization buffer, one milliliter of supplemented lysis buffer, 1.5 micrograms of size fractionated RNA, and 100 microliters of resuspended beads. Vortex the tube gently. Incubate at 37 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes with end-to-end rotation.Following the incubation, wash the beads five times with pre-warmed wash buffer. At the end of the fifth wash, place the microfuge tube containing the beads on the magnet stand for one minute and then remove the wash buffer. Add one milliliter of cold T4 polynucleotide kinase buffer to the washed beads.Incubate the beads for five minutes at four degrees Celsius with end-to-end rotation. Place the microfuge tube containing the beads on the magnetic strip. After one minute, gently remove the buffer.Repeat this step for a total of two washes and remove the buffer after the last wash. Next, follow the instructions in the accompanying document to convert the five prime and three prime ends to be ligation compatible and perform the proximity ligation. After a wash, add 100 microliters of RNA PK buffer to the beads and resuspend them by pipetting up and down.Heat the samples at 95 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes on a heat block. Next, chill the sample on ice for one minute. Add 500 microliters of guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform to the sample.Mix by vortexing vigorously for 10 seconds. Incubate the mixture at room temperature for 10 minutes. Following the incubation, use a kit to precipitate, clean up, and recover the RNA, ensure that even small RNAs are retained.Elute the RNA in 100 microliters of nuclease-free water. Transfer 100 microliters of the eluted samples into a well of a 24-well plate on nice. Keeping the sample on ice, UV irradiate it at 254 nanometers for five minutes.Transfer the reverse crosslinked sample to a clean microfuge tube. Add 10 microliters of sodium acetate, one microliter of glycogen, and 300 microliters of 100%ethanol. Precipitate the RNA at minus 20 degrees Celsius for at least one hour.To recover the RNA, centrifuge the precipitated RNA at 20, 000 times g for 30 minutes at four degrees Celsius. After the spin, remove the supernatant and add one milliliter of 70%cold ethanol to wash the RNA pellet. Centrifuge the washed pellet at 20, 000 times g for 15 minutes at four degrees Celsius.Remove the wash buffer and add 4.25 microliters of nuclease-free water to resuspend the RNA. Transfer the RNA to a 0.2 milliliter PCR tube. Finally, reverse transcribe, circularize, and amplify the cDNA according to the instructions in the accompanying document.This schematic depicts the SPLASH workflow. Upon the addition of biotinylated psoralen in the presence of 0.01%digitonin and UV crosslinking, total RNA is extracted from the cells and a dot blot is performed to ensure that crosslinking was efficient. Biotinylated 20 base oligos are then used as positive controls to titrate the amount of biotinylated psoralen to be added to the cells such that approximately one in every 150 bases are crosslinked.Small-scale PCR amplification is then performed using increasing numbers of PCR cycles to determine the minium number of cycles required for deep sequencing. In an efficient library preparation process, a cDNA sequencing library can be amplified from a 1.5 microgram of size selected RNA input in less than 15 cycles of PCR amplification. The library is then sequenced using two 150 base pair reads on a high throughout sequencing machine.The sequencing reads are then processed according to the computational pipeline. The end result is a list of filtered chimeric interactions that includes both intramolecular and intermolecular RNA-RNA interactions in the transcriptome. While attempting this procedure, it is important to remember to check for biotinylated psoralen incorporation when using SPLASH on new organisms.After its development, this technique paved the way for researchers in the field of RNA biology to explore RNA interactions in diverse organisms. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to make a sequencing library that captures pair-wise RNA interactions globally in the cell.

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Conjugative Mating Assays for Sequence-specific Analysis of Transfer Proteins Involved in Bacterial Conjugation

The transfer of genetic material by bacterial conjugation is a process that takes place via complexes formed by specific transfer proteins. In Escherichia coli, these transfer proteins make up a DNA transfer machinery known as the mating pair formation, or DNA transfer complex, which facilitates conjugative plasmid transfer. The objective of this paper is to provide a method that can be used to determine the role of a specific transfer protein that is involved in conjugation using a series of deletions and/or point mutations in combination with mating assays. The target gene is knocked out on the conjugative plasmid and is then provided in trans through the use of a small recovery plasmid harboring the target gene. Mutations affecting the target gene on the recovery plasmid can reveal information about functional aspects of the target protein that result in the alteration of mating efficiency of donor cells harboring the mutated gene. Alterations in mating efficiency provide insight into the role and importance of the particular transfer protein, or a region therein, in facilitating conjugative DNA transfer. Coupling this mating assay with detailed three-dimensional structural studies will provide a comprehensive understanding of the function of the conjugative transfer protein as well as provide a means for identifying and characterizing regions of protein-protein interaction.

Here, we present a protocol to knockout a gene of interest involved in plasmid conjugation and subsequently analyze the impact of its absence using mating assays. The function of the gene is further explored to a specific region of its sequence using deletion or point mutations.

Konjugativ Parning Analyser för sekvensspecifik analys av Transfer proteiner involverade i konjugation

The transfer of genetic material by bacterial conjugation is a process that takes place via complexes formed by specific transfer proteins. In Escherichia ...

QTL Mapping and CRISPR/Cas9 Editing to Identify a Drug Resistance Gene in Toxoplasma gondii

Scientific knowledge is intrinsically linked to available technologies and methods. This article will present two methods that allowed for the identification and verification of a drug resistance gene in the Apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the method of Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping using a Whole Genome Sequence (WGS) -based genetic map and the method of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 -based gene editing. The approach of QTL mapping allows one to test if there is a correlation between a genomic region(s) and a phenotype. Two datasets are required to run a QTL scan, a genetic map based on the progeny of a recombinant cross and a quantifiable phenotype assessed in each of the progeny of that cross. These datasets are then formatted to be compatible with R/qtl software that generates a QTL scan to identify significant loci correlated with the phenotype. Although this can greatly narrow the search window of possible candidates, QTLs span regions containing a number of genes from which the causal gene needs to be identified. Having WGS of the progeny was critical to identify the causal drug resistance mutation at the gene level. Once identified, the candidate mutation can be verified by genetic manipulation of drug sensitive parasites. The most facile and efficient method to genetically modify T. gondii is the CRISPR/Cas9 system. This system comprised of just 2 components both encoded on a single plasmid, a single guide RNA (gRNA) containing a 20 bp sequence complementary to the genomic target and the Cas9 endonuclease that generates a double-strand DNA break (DSB) at the target, repair of which allows for insertion or deletion of sequences around the break site. This article provides detailed protocols to use CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing tools to verify the gene responsible for sinefungin resistance and to construct transgenic parasites.

QTL Mapping and CRISPR/Cas9 Editing to Identify a Drug Resistance Gene in Toxoplasma gondii

Details are presented on how QTL mapping with a whole genome sequence based genetic map can be used to identify a drug resistance gene in Toxoplasma gondii and how this can be verified with the CRISPR/Cas9 system that efficiently edits a genomic target, in this case the drug resistance gene.

QTL-kartläggning och CRISPR / Cas9 redigering för att identifiera en läkemedelsresistensgen i<em&gt; Toxoplasma gondii</em

Scientific knowledge is intrinsically linked to available technologies and methods. This article will present two methods that allowed for the ...

Single Molecule Analysis of Laser Localized Psoralen Adducts

The DNA Damage Response (DDR) has been extensively characterized in studies of double strand breaks (DSBs) induced by laser micro beam irradiation in live cells. The DDR to helix distorting covalent DNA modifications, including interstrand DNA crosslinks (ICLs), is not as well defined. We have studied the DDR stimulated by ICLs, localized by laser photoactivation of immunotagged psoralens, in the nuclei of live cells. In order to address fundamental questions about adduct distribution and replication fork encounters, we combined laser localization with two other technologies. DNA fibers are often used to display the progress of replication forks by immunofluorescence of nucleoside analogues incorporated during short pulses. Immunoquantum dots have been widely employed for single molecule imaging. In the new approach, DNA fibers from cells carrying laser localized ICLs are spread onto microscope slides. The tagged ICLs are displayed with immunoquantum dots and the inter-lesion distances determined. Replication fork collisions with ICLs can be visualized and different encounter patterns identified and quantitated.

Lasers are frequently used in studies of the cellular response to DNA damage. However, they generate lesions whose spacing, frequency, and collisions with replication forks are rarely characterized. Here, we describe an approach that enables the determination of these parameters with laser localized interstrand crosslinks.

Enda molekyl Analys av Laser Lokaliserade psoralen Addukter

The DNA Damage Response (DDR) has been extensively characterized in studies of double strand breaks (DSBs) induced by laser micro beam irradiation in live ...

Genome-wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interactions with ChEC-seq in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interactions is critical for understanding gene regulation, chromatin remodeling, and other chromatin-resident processes. Formaldehyde crosslinking followed by chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing (X-ChIP-seq) has been used to gain many valuable insights into genome biology. However, X-ChIP-seq has notable limitations linked to crosslinking and sonication. Native ChIP avoids these drawbacks by omitting crosslinking, but often results in poor recovery of chromatin-bound proteins. In addition, all ChIP-based methods are subject to antibody quality considerations. Enzymatic methods for mapping protein-DNA interactions, which involve fusion of a protein of interest to a DNA-modifying enzyme, have also been used to map protein-DNA interactions. We recently combined one such method, chromatin endogenous cleavage (ChEC), with high-throughput sequencing as ChEC-seq. ChEC-seq relies on fusion of a chromatin-associated protein of interest to micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to generate targeted DNA cleavage in the presence of calcium in living cells. ChEC-seq is not based on immunoprecipitation and so circumvents potential concerns with crosslinking, sonication, chromatin solubilization, and antibody quality while providing high resolution mapping with minimal background signal. We envision that ChEC-seq will be a powerful counterpart to ChIP, providing an independent means by which to both validate ChIP-seq findings and discover new insights into genomic regulation.

Genome-wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interactions with ChEC-seq in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

We describe chromatin endogenous cleavage coupled with high-throughput sequencing (ChEC-seq), a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-orthogonal method for mapping protein binding sites genome-wide with micrococcal nuclease (MNase) fusion proteins.

Genomgående kartläggning av protein-DNA-interaktioner med ChEC-seq in<em&gt; Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em

Genome-wide mapping of protein-DNA interactions is critical for understanding gene regulation, chromatin remodeling, and other chromatin-resident ...

Retroviral Scanning: Mapping MLV Integration Sites to Define Cell-specific Regulatory Regions

Moloney murine leukemia (MLV) virus-based retroviral vectors integrate predominantly in acetylated enhancers and promoters. For this reason, mLV integration sites can be used as functional markers of active regulatory elements. Here, we present a retroviral scanning tool, which allows the genome-wide identification of cell-specific enhancers and promoters. Briefly, the target cell population is transduced with an mLV-derived vector and genomic DNA is digested with a frequently cutting restriction enzyme. After ligation of genomic fragments with a compatible DNA linker, linker-mediated polymerase chain reaction (LM-PCR) allows the amplification of the virus-host genome junctions. Massive sequencing of the amplicons is used to define the mLV integration profile genome-wide. Finally, clusters of recurrent integrations are defined to identify cell-specific regulatory regions, responsible for the activation of cell-type specific transcriptional programs.
The retroviral scanning tool allows the genome-wide identification of cell-specific promoters and enhancers in prospectively isolated target cell populations. Notably, retroviral scanning represents an instrumental technique for the retrospective identification of rare populations (e.g. somatic stem cells) that lack robust markers for prospective isolation.

Here, we describe a protocol for genome-wide mapping of the integration sites of Moloney murine leukemia virus-based retroviral vectors in human cells.

Retroviral Scanning: Kartläggning av MLV-integrationswebbplatser för att definiera cellspecifika reglerande regioner

Moloney murine leukemia (MLV) virus-based retroviral vectors integrate predominantly in acetylated enhancers and promoters. For this reason, mLV ...

Mapping Genome-wide Accessible Chromatin in Primary Human T Lymphocytes by ATAC-Seq

Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a method used for the identification of open (accessible) regions of chromatin. These regions represent regulatory DNA elements (e.g., promoters, enhancers, locus control regions, insulators) to which transcription factors bind. Mapping the accessible chromatin landscape is a powerful approach for uncovering active regulatory elements across the genome. This information serves as an unbiased approach for discovering the network of relevant transcription factors and mechanisms of chromatin structure that govern gene expression programs. ATAC-seq is a robust and sensitive alternative to DNase I hypersensitivity analysis coupled with next-generation sequencing (DNase-seq) and formaldehyde-assisted isolation of regulatory elements (FAIRE-seq) for genome-wide analysis of chromatin accessibility and to the sequencing of micrococcal nuclease-sensitive sites (MNase-seq) to determine nucleosome positioning. We present a detailed ATAC-seq protocol optimized for human primary immune cells i.e. CD4+ lymphocytes (T helper 1 (Th1) and Th2 cells). This comprehensive protocol begins with cell harvest, then describes the molecular procedure of chromatin tagmentation, sample preparation for next-generation sequencing, and also includes methods and considerations for the computational analyses used to interpret the results. Moreover, to save time and money, we introduced quality control measures to assess the ATAC-seq library prior to sequencing. Importantly, the principles presented in this protocol allow its adaptation to other human immune and non-immune primary cells and cell lines. These guidelines will also be useful for laboratories which are not proficient with next-generation sequencing methods.

Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin coupled with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a genome-wide method to uncover accessible chromatin. This is a step-by-step ATAC-seq protocol, from molecular to the final computational analysis, optimized for human lymphocytes (Th1/Th2). This protocol can be adopted by researchers without prior experience in next-generation sequencing methods.

Mappning av Genome-wide tillgängliga kromatin i primära humana T-lymfocyter av ATAC-Seq

Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) is a method used for the identification of open (accessible) regions ...

A Fast and Quantitative Method for Post-translational Modification and Variant Enabled Mapping of Peptides to Genomes

Cross-talk between genes, transcripts, and proteins is the key to cellular responses; hence, analysis of molecular levels as distinct entities is slowly being extended to integrative studies to enhance the understanding of molecular dynamics within cells. Current tools for the visualization and integration of proteomics with other omics datasets are inadequate for large-scale studies. Furthermore, they only capture basic sequence identify, discarding post-translational modifications and quantitation. To address these issues, we developed PoGo to map peptides with associated post-translational modifications and quantification to reference genome annotation. In addition, the tool was developed to enable the mapping of peptides identified from customized sequence databases incorporating single amino acid variants. While PoGo is a command line tool, the graphical interface PoGoGUI enables non-bioinformatics researchers to easily map peptides to 25 species supported by Ensembl genome annotation. The generated output borrows file formats from the genomics field and, therefore, visualization is supported in most genome browsers. For large-scale studies, PoGo is supported by TrackHubGenerator to create web-accessible repositories of data mapped to genomes that also enable an easy sharing of proteogenomics data. With little effort, this tool can map millions of peptides to reference genomes within only a few minutes, outperforming other available sequence-identity based tools. This protocol demonstrates the best approaches for proteogenomics mapping through PoGo with publicly available datasets of quantitative and phosphoproteomics, as well as large-scale studies.

Here we present the proteogenomic tool PoGo and protocols for fast, quantitative, post-translational modification and variant enabled mapping of peptides identified through mass spectrometry onto reference genomes. This tool is of use to integrate and visualize proteogenomic and personal proteomic studies interfacing with orthogonal genomics data.

En snabb och kvantitativ metod för posttranslationella modifieringen och Variant aktiverad mappning av peptider till genomen

Cross-talk between genes, transcripts, and proteins is the key to cellular responses; hence, analysis of molecular levels as distinct entities is slowly ...

Transcription Start Site Mapping Using Super-low Input Carrier-CAGE

Cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) is a method used for single-nucleotide resolution detection of RNA polymerase II transcription start sites (TSSs). Accurate detection of TSSs enhances identification and discovery of core promoters. In addition, active enhancers can be detected through signatures of bidirectional transcription initiation. Described here is a protocol for performing super-low input carrier-CAGE (SLIC-CAGE). This SLIC adaptation of the CAGE protocol minimizes RNA losses by artificially increasing the RNA amount through use of an in vitro transcribed RNA carrier mix that is added to the sample of interest, thus enabling library preparation from nanogram-amounts of total RNA (i.e., thousands of cells). The carrier mimics the expected DNA library fragment length distribution, thereby eliminating biases that could be caused by the abundance of a homogenous carrier. In the last stages of the protocol, the carrier is removed through degradation with homing endonucleases and the target library is amplified. The target sample library is protected from degradation, as the homing endonuclease recognition sites are long (between 18 and 27 bp), making the probability of their existence in the eukaryotic genomes very low. The end result is a DNA library ready for next-generation sequencing. All steps in the protocol, up to sequencing, can be completed within 6 days. The carrier preparation requires a full working day; however, it can be prepared in large quantities and kept frozen at -80 &#176;C. Once sequenced, the reads can be processed to obtain genome-wide single-nucleotide resolution TSSs. TSSs can be used for core promoter or enhancer discovery, providing insight into gene regulation. Once aggregated to promoters, the data can also be used for 5&#8217;-centric expression profiling.

Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE) is a method for genome-wide quantitative mapping of mRNA 5&#8217;ends to capture RNA polymerase II transcription start sites at a single-nucleotide resolution. This work describes a low-input (SLIC-CAGE) protocol for generation of high-quality libraries using nanogram-amounts of total RNA.

Transkription start webbplats mappning med Super-low ingång Carrier-CAGE

Cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) is a method used for single-nucleotide resolution detection of RNA polymerase II transcription start sites (TSSs). ...

In Vitro Biochemical Assays using Biotin Labels to Study Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions

Protein-nucleic acid interactions play important roles in biological processes such as transcription, recombination, and RNA metabolism. Experimental methods to study protein-nucleic acid interactions require the use of fluorescent tags, radioactive isotopes, or other labels to detect and analyze specific target molecules. Biotin, a non-radioactive nucleic acid label, is commonly used in electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) but has not been regularly employed to monitor protein activity during nucleic acid processes. This protocol illustrates the utility of biotin labeling during in vitro enzymatic reactions, demonstrating that this label works well with a range of different biochemical assays. Specifically, in alignment with previous findings using radioisotope 32P-labeled substrates, it is confirmed via biotin-labeled EMSA that MEIOB (a protein specifically involved in the meiotic recombination) is a DNA-binding protein, that MOV10 (an RNA helicase) resolves biotin-labeled RNA duplex structures, and that MEIOB cleaves biotin-labeled single-stranded DNA. This study demonstrates that biotin is capable of substituting 32P in various nucleic acid-related biochemical assays in vitro.&#160;

Presented here are protocols for in vitro biochemical assays using biotin labels that may be widely&#160;applicable for studying protein-nucleic acid interactions.

In vitro biokemiska analyser med biotin-märkning för att studera interaktioner mellan protein-nukleinsyror

Protein-nucleic acid interactions play important roles in biological processes such as transcription, recombination, and RNA metabolism. Experimental ...

Genetic Mapping of Thermotolerance Differences Between Species of Saccharomyces Yeast via Genome-Wide Reciprocal Hemizygosity Analysis

A central goal of modern genetics is to understand how and why organisms in the wild differ in phenotype. To date, the field has advanced largely on the strength of linkage and association mapping methods, which trace the relationship between DNA sequence variants and phenotype across recombinant progeny from matings between individuals of a species. These approaches, although powerful, are not well suited to trait differences between reproductively isolated species. Here we describe a new method for genome-wide dissection of natural trait variation that can be readily applied to incompatible species. Our strategy, RH-seq, is a genome-wide implementation of the reciprocal hemizygote test. We harnessed it to identify the genes responsible for the striking high temperature growth of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae relative to its sister species S. paradoxus. RH-seq utilizes transposon mutagenesis to create a pool of reciprocal hemizygotes, which are then tracked through a high-temperature competition via high-throughput sequencing. Our RH-seq workflow as laid out here provides a rigorous, unbiased way to dissect ancient, complex traits in the budding yeast clade, with the caveat that resource-intensive deep sequencing is needed to ensure genomic coverage for genetic mapping. As sequencing costs drop, this approach holds great promise for future use across eukaryotes.

Genetic Mapping of Thermotolerance Differences Between Species of Saccharomyces Yeast via Genome-Wide Reciprocal Hemizygosity Analysis

Reciprocal hemizygosity via sequencing (RH-seq) is a powerful new method to map the genetic basis of a trait difference between species. Pools of hemizygotes are generated by transposon mutagenesis and their fitness is tracked through competitive growth using high-throughout sequencing. Analysis of the resulting data pinpoints genes underlying the trait.

Genetisk kartläggning av Termotolerans skillnader mellan arter av Saccharomyces jäst via Genomomfattande ömsesidig Hemizygosity analys

A central goal of modern genetics is to understand how and why organisms in the wild differ in phenotype. To date, the field has advanced largely on the ...