RNA Analysis by Biosynthetic Tagging Using 4-Thiouracil and Uracil Phosphoribosyltransferase
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RNA analysis by biosynthetic tagging (RABT) enables sensitive and specific queries of (a) how gene expression is regulated
on a genome-wide scale and (b) transcriptional profiling of a single cell or tissue type in vivo. RABT can be achieved by
exploiting unique properties of Toxoplasma gondii uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (TgUPRT), a pyrimidine salvage enzyme that couples ribose-5-phosphate to the N1 nitrogen
of uracil to yield uridine monophosphate (UMP). When 4-thiouracil is provided as a TgUPRT substrate, the resultant product
is 4-thiouridine monophosphate which can, ultimately, be incorporated into RNA. Thio-substituted nucleotides are not a natural
component of nucleic acids and are readily tagged, detected, and purified with commercially available reagents. Thus, one
can do pulse/chase experiments to measure synthesis and decay rates and/or use cell-specific expression of the TgUPRT to tag
only RNA synthesized in a given cell type. This chapter updates the original RABT protocol (1) and addresses methodological details associated with RABT that were beyond the scope or space allotment of the initial report.
Affiliation(s): (3) Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Book Title: Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 419 | Pub. Date: Dec-21-2007 | Page Range: 135-146 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-033-1_9
Subject: Genetics/Genomics
Key Words: RABT - 4-thiouracil - 4-thiouridine monophosphate - microarray - gene regulation - cell-specific profiling - RNA - synthesis - decay - RNA purification -
Toxoplasma gondii
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