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PLOS ONE
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273253
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- Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin
- Berlin Institute of Health
- Berliner Krebsgesellschaft e.V. [FUFF201721KK]
- Stiftung Tumorforschung Kopf-Hals (Wiesbaden, Germany)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [439441203]
- Inserm
- l'association Eva pour la vie
- Federation Grandir Sans Cancer
- La ligue contre le cancer (Equipes Labelisee 2017-2021)
- Labex TOUCAN/Laboratoire d'excellence Toulouse Cancer
- Fondation de France
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This article presents an improved protocol for enriching and sequencing full-length circRNAs using the Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing platform. The protocol involves exonuclease treatment and negative selection to enrich lowly abundant circRNAs, followed by cDNA library creation and PCR amplification. The protocol works well with human cancer cell lines and enables reliable full-length analysis of circRNAs.
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a noncoding RNA class with important implications for gene expression regulation, mostly by interaction with other RNA species or RNA-binding proteins. While the commonly applied short-read Illumina RNA-sequencing techniques can be used to detect circRNAs, their full sequence is not revealed. However, the complete sequence information is needed to analyze potential interactions and thus the mechanism of action of circRNAs. Here, we present an improved protocol to enrich and sequence full-length circRNAs by using the Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing platform. The protocol involves an enrichment of lowly abundant circRNAs by exonuclease treatment and negative selection of linear RNAs. Then, a cDNA library is created and amplified by PCR. This protocol provides enough material for several sequencing runs. The library is used as input for ligation-based sequencing together with native barcoding. Stringent quality control of the libraries is ensured by a combination of Qubit, Fragment Analyzer and qRT-PCR. Multiplexing of up to 4 libraries yields in total more than 1-2 Million reads per library, of which 1-2% are circRNA-specific reads with >99% of them full-length. The protocol works well with human cancer cell lines. We further provide suggestions for the bioinformatic analysis of the created data, as well as the limitations of our approach together with recommendations for troubleshooting and interpretation. Taken together, this protocol enables reliable full-length analysis of circRNAs, a noncoding RNA type involved in a growing number of physiologic and pathologic conditions.
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