流程
实验流程
用TRIzol,对总样品的RNA进行分离和纯化。然后用NanoDrop ND-1000对总RNA的量与纯度进行质控。再通过Bioanalyzer 2100对RNA的完整性进行检测,同时通过琼脂糖电泳的方案进行验证。浓度>50ng/μL,RIN值>7.0,OD260/280>1.8,total RNA>1μg满足下游实验。加入镁离子打断试剂盒在94℃高温条件下对total RNA进行片段化处理5min。使用免疫磁珠与m6A抗体预混,将预混好的m6A-免疫磁珠与片段化的RNA(含有核糖体RNA片段)进行IP,从而得到IP产物。IP产物在逆转录酶的催化下合成一链cDNA,后加入接头进行第一轮PCR--预变性94℃ 1min,98℃ 变性15s,55℃退火15s,68℃延伸30s,最后再保持68℃延伸2min,共5个循环,合成二链DNA。使用纯化珠将扩增的DNA文库进行纯化。将R-Probes v2探针和ZapR v2 酶加入到DNA文库从而达到去除核糖体RNA反转录的cDNA序列的目的--72℃ 孵育2min,4℃保持2min,37℃ 1h,72℃ 10min,最后4℃保持。通过第二轮PCR对最终文库进行扩增,PCR程序设置与第一轮一致,循环数增加至12-16个。最后,我们使用illumina Novaseq™ 6000 按照标准操作对其进行双端测序,测序模式为PE150。
生物信息分析流程
下机原始数据格式为fastq,我们首先使用fastp(https://github.com/OpenGene/fastp)的默认参数对所有IP样本和Input样本下机原始数据进行质控,包括去除接头、重复序列和低质量序列,得到CleanData用于后续分析。然后使用HISAT2(http://daehwankimlab.github.io/hisat2)将CleanData比对到基因组上(拉丁文:Mus musculus, 基因组版本:v101),再利用得到的bam文件使用R包exomePeak2(https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/exomePeak2.html)进行Peak calling和diff Peak分析,并使用ANNOVAR( http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/)对peak进行注释。最后使用MEME2(http://meme-suite.org)和HOMER(http://homer.ucsd.edu/homer/motif)进行motif分析。基因组装和定量软件为StringTie(https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie),定量方式为FPKM(total exon fragments/mapped reads (millions)× exon length (kB)),并使用R包edgeR(https://bioconductor.org/packages/edgeR)进行差异分析,差异倍数FC(fold change)≥2或FC≤0.5且p值小于0.05。
MeRIP测序生信分析流程图
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2020年陈建军教授在Cancer Cell上发表的关于mRNA和non-coding RNA上m6A修饰的综述值得一读,联川进行了全文翻译:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9lhlRAs425ePfclhfbvLqQ