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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 70, Issue 5, Pages 854-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.05.001
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- NIH ENCODE Project [U54HG007005]
- NIH grant [GM085319, HG004659, NS103172, HG007005]
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Rush L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship [12138618]
- Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Fund [027003-00001]
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation [DRG-2172-13]
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RNA binding proteins (RBPs) orchestrate the production, processing, and function of mRNAs. Here, we present the affinity landscapes of 78 human RBPs using an unbiased assay that determines the sequence, structure, and context preferences of these proteins in vitro by deep sequencing of bound RNAs. These data enable construction of RNA maps'' of RBP activity without requiring crosslinking-based assays. We found an unexpectedly low diversity of RNA motifs, implying frequent convergence of binding specificity toward a relatively small set of RNA motifs, many with low compositional complexity. Offsetting this trend, however, we observed extensive preferences for contextual features distinct from short linear RNA motifs, including spaced bipartite'' motifs, biased flanking nucleotide composition, and bias away from or toward RNA structure. Our results emphasize the importance of contextual features in RNA recognition, which likely enable targeting of distinct subsets of transcripts by different RBPs that recognize the same linear motif.
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