title: Metabolic labeling of newly transcribed RNA for high resolution gene expression profiling of RNA synthesis, processing and decay in cell culture.
abstract: The development of whole-transcriptome microarrays and next-generation sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of the complexity of cellular gene expression. Along with a better understanding of the involved molecular mechanisms, precise measurements of the underlying kinetics have become increasingly important. Here, these powerful methodologies face major limitations due to intrinsic properties of the template samples they study, i.e. total cellular RNA. In many cases changes in total cellular RNA occur either too slowly or too quickly to represent the underlying molecular events and their kinetics with sufficient resolution. In addition, the contribution of alterations in RNA synthesis, processing, and decay are not readily differentiated. We recently developed high-resolution gene expression profiling to overcome these limitations. Our approach is based on metabolic labeling of newly transcribed RNA with 4-thiouridine (thus also referred to as 4sU-tagging) followed by rigorous purification of newly transcribed RNA using thiol-specific biotinylation and streptavidin-coated magnetic beads. It is applicable to a broad range of organisms including vertebrates, Drosophila, and yeast. We successfully applied 4sU-tagging to study real-time kinetics of transcription factor activities, provide precise measurements of RNA half-lives, and obtain novel insights into the kinetics of RNA processing. Finally, computational modeling can be employed to generate an integrated, comprehensive analysis of the underlying molecular mechanisms.
authors: Max von Pettenkofer Institute.
authors: Bernd
authors: B
authors: Rädle
authors: Andrzej J
authors: AJ
authors: Rutkowski
authors: Zsolt
authors: Z
authors: Ruzsics
authors: Caroline C
authors: CC
authors: Friedel
authors: Ulrich H
authors: UH
authors: Koszinowski
authors: Lars
authors: L
authors: Dölken
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001710:Biotin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D008280:Magnetics; D012313:RNA / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019809:Streptavidin / Q000737:chemistry; D013891:Thiouridine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D013891:Thiouridine; D012313:RNA; D001710:Biotin; D019809:Streptavidin
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