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SRX19458819: GSM7054866: NM E. coli tRNAs control treatment (minus DMS) 30mers / 1:2 / 10 replicate 2; Escherichia coli; OTHER
1 ILLUMINA (NextSeq 2000) run: 10.4M spots, 1.6G bases, 588.7Mb downloads

External Id: GSM7054866_r1
Submitted by: Bevilacqua Lab, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University
Study: tRNA structure-seq in peptide-rich droplets
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Compartmentalization of RNA in biopolymer-rich membraneless organelles is now understood to be pervasive and critical for the function of extant biology, and has been proposed as a prebiotically-plausible way to accumulate RNA. Compartment-RNA interactions that drive encapsulation have the potential to influence RNA structure and function in compartment- and RNA sequence-dependent ways. Herein, we detail Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) experiments performed for the first time in membraneless compartments called complex coacervates to characterize the fold of many different transfer RNAs (tRNAs) simultaneously under the potentially denaturing conditions of these compartments. Transfer RNAs are essential for protein synthesis and predate the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all organisms, making them relevant to both extant and ancient biology. Since tRNAs are the most heavily modified RNAs known, with modifications crucial to RNA structure, function, and gene regulation, we also compared unmodified and naturally-modified tRNAs. We elucidate the effects of Mg2+ concentration, polyion charge ratio, and polyion length on tRNA structures. The approach herein, which can be applied to study other RNAs in diverse condensates, reveals that RNA can achieve native tertiary structure in a robust fashion in membraneless compartments. Strikingly, we find that natural modifications favor the native fold of tRNAs in these compartments. This suggests that modifications could have played a critical role in metabolic processes at the origin of life. Overall design: We performed tRNA structure-seq (a type of dimethyl sulfate chemical probing followed by mutational profiling DMS-MaP-Seq) inside of peptide-rich droplets to study a T7 transcript of a single tRNA from S. cerevisiae to validate the the technique. Then, we purified natively modified tRNAs from E. coli and generated T7 transcripts of those same tRNAs and again performed tRNA structure-seq in peptide-rich droplets. For each type of RNA in each droplet condition, there were 3 independent control experiments and 3 independent DMS treatments performed.
Sample: NM E. coli tRNAs control treatment (minus DMS) 30mers / 1:2 / 10 replicate 2
SAMN33397852 • SRS16851479 • All experiments • All runs
Library:
Name: GSM7054866
Instrument: NextSeq 2000
Strategy: OTHER
Source: TRANSCRIPTOMIC
Selection: other
Layout: SINGLE
Construction protocol: Trizol extraction To facilitate ligation onto the 3'-end of RNAs, the ligation adapter must be 5'-end adenylated. The adapter adenylation reaction was prepared as follows: water, 10 μM Mth RNA ligase (M2611A), 200 μM ATP, 20 μM of the ligation adapter (called 3' adapter in supplemental material excel sheet), and 1X 5' DNA Adenylation reaction buffer (B2610S). The reaction was incubated at 65 °C for 1 h, after which, the enzyme was heat inactivated at 85 C for 5 min. We performed the RT primer ligation reaction as follows: 25% PEG 8000, 1X T4 RNA Ligase Reaction Buffer, 3 μM adenylated DNA oligonucleotide from the previous step, 4 μL of RNA recovered from a DMS experiment, and 200 U of T4 RNA Ligase 2 truncated (New England Biolabs). The reaction was incubated at 16 °C overnight, and the next day, the ligated product was fractionated alongside an unligated starting material lane on a 10% denaturing (8.3 M urea 1X TBE) polyacrylamide gel. The gel was stained with SYBR-GOLD and bands were visualized with UV light. The ligated band was excised, cut into ~1 mm x 1mm squares, and placed in a 1.7 mL tube with 450 μL of TEN-250 buffer and crush and soaked at 4 °C overnight. The ligated product was recovered by ethanol precipitation. The ligated products were reverse transcribed by marathon reverse transcriptase in the presence of Mn2+ ions to induce mutations at DMS modification sites and encourage readthrough.9,10; The ligated product and reverse transcription primer were renatured together at 90 °C for 1 min and then cooled to 4 °C for 10 min to hybridize them. The marathon reverse transcription reaction contained the following: 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.3), 200 mM KCl, 5 mM dithiothreitol, 20% glycerol, 2 mM MnCl2, 250 μM of each dNTP, less than 500ng of ligated product, 250 nM of reverse transcription primer (called RT primer in supplemental material excel sheet) and 10-20 U of Marathon Reverse Transcriptase (Kerafast). The reaction was incubated at 42 °C for 1 h, then ~200 mM NaOH was added, and the reaction was heated to 95 °C for 5 min to denature the reverse transcriptase and degrade the RNA template. Then an equal volume of 2X formamide loading dye (0.025% w/v bromophenol blue, 90% formamide, 10 mM EDTA) was added and the sample was fractionated on a 10% denaturing (8.3 M urea 1X TBE) polyacrylamide gel. The gel was stained with SYBR-GOLD, bands were visualized under UV-light, the RT product band was excised, cut into ~1 mm x 1mm squares, placed in a 1.7 mL tube with TEN-250 buffer and crush and soaked at 4 °C overnight. The reverse transcription product was recovered by ethanol precipitation. The single-stranded cDNA from the reverse transcription was circularized using CircLigase II. The reaction was prepared as follows: 1X Circligase reaction buffer (Lucigen), 2.5 mM MnCl2, 1 M betaine, single-stranded cDNA from the reverse transcription, and 3.3 U of CircLigase II (Lucigen). The reaction was incubated at 60 °C for 2 h. The circularized product was used in indexing PCR without further purification. The PCR was prepared as follows, 1X Phusion HF reaction buffer, 0.5 μM indexing primer, 0.5 μM reverse primer (called PCR reverse in supplemental material excel sheet), 200 μM of each dNTP, circularized DNA, and 0.5 U of Phusion HF DNA Polymerase. The thermocycler program was based on that from Yamagami et al.2 and was performed as follows: initial denaturation at 98 °C for 30 sec, denature at 98 °C for 10 sec, anneal at 60 °C for 10 sec, elongate at 72 °C for 5 sec, repeat steps 2-4 for 17 cycles before a final extension at 72 °C for 5 min. PCR products were fractionated on an 8% non-denaturing TBE polyacrylamide gel ran at 180 V for 90-120 min. The gel was stained with SYBR-GOLD, bands were visualized with UV light, the PCR product band was excised, cut into ~1 mm x 1mm squares, and placed in a 1.7 mL with TEN-250 buffer and crush and soaked at 4 °C overnight. The indexed library was recovered by Nucleospin Gel and PCR Clean-Up kit (Macherey-Nagel). Afterwards, the concentrations of each library were measured via a micro-volume UV-vis spectrophotometer (Denovix). Before the libraries were sequenced, they were evaluated for quality and appropriate length by the TapeStation system (Agilent). To determine the concentration of each library, qPCR was performed. Libraries were sequenced by Illumina NextSeq (150 nt single-end sequencing and High-output flow cells) with the standard Illumina primer.
Runs: 1 run, 10.4M spots, 1.6G bases, 588.7Mb
Run# of Spots# of BasesSizePublished
SRR2357199710,433,3021.6G588.7Mb2023-09-27

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26733527

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