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RNA structural probing of guanine and uracil nucleotides in yeast

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PLOS ONE
卷 18, 期 7, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288070

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RNA structure probing is a valuable method to investigate the three-dimensional structure of RNA. In this study, we analyze the effectiveness of guanine modification and uracil modification in yeast models. We find that phenylglyoxal (PGO) is the best guanine probe for structural probing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans, and that uracils can be modified by Cyclohexyl-3-(2-Morpholinoethyl) Carbodiimide metho-p-Toluenesulfonate (CMCT) in S. cerevisiae. These findings provide valuable conditions and tools for studying RNA structure and function in yeast models.
RNA structure can be essential for its cellular function. Therefore, methods to investigate the structure of RNA in vivo are of great importance for understanding the role of cellular RNAs. RNA structure probing is an indirect method to asess the three-dimensional structure of RNA by analyzing the reactivity of different nucleotides to chemical modifications. Dimethyl sulfate (DMS) is a well-established compound that reports on base pairing context of adenine (A) and cytidine (C) in-vitro and in-vivo, but is not reactive to guanine (G) or uracil (U). Recently, new compounds were used to modify Gs and Us in plant, bacteria, and human cells. To complement the scope of RNA structural probing by chemical modifications in the model organism yeast, we analyze the effectiveness of guanine modification by the glyoxal family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans. We show that within glyoxal family of compounds, phenylglyoxal (PGO) is the best guanine probe for structural probing in S. cerevisiae and C. albicans. Further, we show that PGO treatment does not affect the processing of different RNA species in the cell and is not toxic for the cells under the conditions we have established for RNA structural probing. We also explore the effectiveness of uracil modification by Cyclohexyl-3-(2-Morpholinoethyl) Carbodiimide metho-p-Toluenesulfonate (CMCT) in vivo and demonstrate that uracils can be modified by CMCT in S. cerevisiae in vivo. Our results provide the conditions for in vivo probing the reactivity of guanine and uracil nucleotides in RNA structures in yeast and offer a valuable tool for studying RNA structure and function in two widely used yeast model systems.

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