流程
實驗流程
用TRIzol,對總樣品的RNA進行分離和純化。然后用NanoDrop ND-1000對總RNA的量與純度進行質(zhì)控。再通過Bioanalyzer 2100對RNA的完整性進行檢測,同時通過瓊脂糖電泳的方案進行驗證。濃度>50ng/μL,RIN值>7.0,OD260/280>1.8,total RNA>1μg滿足下游實驗。加入鎂離子打斷試劑盒在94℃高溫條件下對total RNA進行片段化處理5min。使用免疫磁珠與m6A抗體預混,將預混好的m6A-免疫磁珠與片段化的RNA(含有核糖體RNA片段)進行IP,從而得到IP產(chǎn)物。IP產(chǎn)物在逆轉(zhuǎn)錄酶的催化下合成一鏈cDNA,后加入接頭進行第一輪PCR--預變性94℃ 1min,98℃ 變性15s,55℃退火15s,68℃延伸30s,最后再保持68℃延伸2min,共5個循環(huán),合成二鏈DNA。使用純化珠將擴增的DNA文庫進行純化。將R-Probes v2探針和ZapR v2 酶加入到DNA文庫從而達到去除核糖體RNA反轉(zhuǎn)錄的cDNA序列的目的--72℃ 孵育2min,4℃保持2min,37℃ 1h,72℃ 10min,最后4℃保持。通過第二輪PCR對最終文庫進行擴增,PCR程序設置與第一輪一致,循環(huán)數(shù)增加至12-16個。最后,我們使用illumina Novaseq? 6000 按照標準操作對其進行雙端測序,測序模式為PE150。

生物信息分析流程
下機原始數(shù)據(jù)格式為fastq,我們首先使用fastp(https://github.com/OpenGene/fastp)的默認參數(shù)對所有IP樣本和Input樣本下機原始數(shù)據(jù)進行質(zhì)控,包括去除接頭、重復序列和低質(zhì)量序列,得到CleanData用于后續(xù)分析。然后使用HISAT2(http://daehwankimlab.github.io/hisat2)將CleanData比對到基因組上(拉丁文:Mus musculus, 基因組版本:v101),再利用得到的bam文件使用R包exomePeak2(https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/exomePeak2.html)進行Peak calling和diff Peak分析,并使用ANNOVAR( http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/)對peak進行注釋。最后使用MEME2(http://meme-suite.org)和HOMER(http://homer.ucsd.edu/homer/motif)進行motif分析。基因組裝和定量軟件為StringTie(https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie),定量方式為FPKM(total exon fragments/mapped reads (millions)× exon length (kB)),并使用R包edgeR(https://bioconductor.org/packages/edgeR)進行差異分析,差異倍數(shù)FC(fold change)≥2或FC≤0.5且p值小于0.05。
MeRIP測序生信分析流程圖

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2020年陳建軍教授在Cancer Cell上發(fā)表的關于mRNA和non-coding RNA上m6A修飾的綜述值得一讀,聯(lián)川進行了全文翻譯:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9lhlRAs425ePfclhfbvLqQ
