Global mapping of RNA homodimers in living cells
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Abstract
RNA homodimerization is important for various physiological processes, including the assembly of membraneless organelles, RNA subcellular localization, and packaging of viral genomes. However, understanding RNA dimerization has been hampered by the lack of systematic in vivo detection methods. Here, we show that CLASH, PARIS, and other RNA proximity ligation methods detect RNA homodimers transcriptome-wide as “overlapping” chimeric reads that contain more than one copy of the same sequence. Analyzing published proximity ligation data sets, we show that RNA:RNA homodimers mediated by direct base-pairing are rare across the human transcriptome, but highly enriched in specific transcripts, including U8 snoRNA, U2 snRNA, and a subset of tRNAs. Mutations in the homodimerization domain of U8 snoRNA impede dimerization in vitro and disrupt zebrafish development in vivo, suggesting an evolutionarily conserved role of this domain. Analysis of virus-infected cells reveals homodimerization of SARS-CoV-2 and Zika genomes, mediated by specific palindromic sequences located within protein-coding regions of N gene in SARS-CoV-2 and NS2A gene in Zika. We speculate that regions of viral genomes involved in homodimerization may constitute effective targets for antiviral therapies.
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We then called chimeras in the overlapping and non-overlapping datasets using hyb and STAR, using the following commands: hyb (bowtie2 mapping): hyb analyse in=input bowtie2suggested: (Bowtie 2, RRID:SCR_016368): STAR --genomeDir. --readFilesIn input.fasta --outFileNamePrefix 06 -- outReadsUnmapped Fastx --outFilterMismatchNoverLmax 0.05 -- outFilterMatchNmin 16 --outFilterScoreMinOverLread 0 -- outFilterMatchNminOverLread 0 --clip3pAdapterMMp 0.1 –chimSegmentMin 15 --scoreGapNoncan -4 --scoreGapATAC -4 --chimJunctionOverhangMin 15 We used the ua.hyb files from hyb and … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.13.444021: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We then called chimeras in the overlapping and non-overlapping datasets using hyb and STAR, using the following commands: hyb (bowtie2 mapping): hyb analyse in=input bowtie2suggested: (Bowtie 2, RRID:SCR_016368): STAR --genomeDir. --readFilesIn input.fasta --outFileNamePrefix 06 -- outReadsUnmapped Fastx --outFilterMismatchNoverLmax 0.05 -- outFilterMatchNmin 16 --outFilterScoreMinOverLread 0 -- outFilterMatchNminOverLread 0 --clip3pAdapterMMp 0.1 –chimSegmentMin 15 --scoreGapNoncan -4 --scoreGapATAC -4 --chimJunctionOverhangMin 15 We used the ua.hyb files from hyb and Chimeric.out.junction files from STAR for downstream analysis. STARsuggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_004463)Overlap statistics across experimental datasets were visualized in R using the ggplot2 and ggforce libraries (facet_zoom function). ggplot2suggested: (ggplot2, RRID:SCR_014601)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
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