Anti-YTHDF1 and anti-YTHDF2 RIP-Seq to identify the target mRNAs for YTHDF1 and YTHDF2, respectively
To identify the target mRNAs of the m6A reader protein YTHDF1 and YTHDF2, we carired out anti YTHDF1 and anti YTHDF2 RNA Immunoprecipitation (RIP) followed by RNA-sequencencing. Using EZ-Magna RIP™ RNA-Binding Protein Immunoprecipitation Kit (Millipore), RNA from P6-P8 wild type mouse cerebellum was pulled down by rabbit polyclonal anti-YTHDF1 (proteintech) or polyclonal anti-YTHDF2 (proteintech) and then sequenced on Illumina HiSeq3000 platform. The filtered reads were mapped to the mouse reference genome (GRCm38) using STAR v2.5 with default parameters. The resulting bam files were fed to HTSeq tool to count the number of RNA-seq reads, which was further normalized to calculate FPKM. To determine which gene is enriched, we computed the FPKM from RIP elute to input and any fold change greater than 2 was considered enriched. Finally, Biological replicates of anti-YTHDF1 RIP-Seq and anti-YTHDF2 RIP-Seq identified 506 and 596 mRNAs transcripts, respectively. This study provides gene lists which shows mRNA binding with YTHDF1 and YTHDF2 in mouse cerebellum. Overall design: 2 replicates, each containing input and IP samples