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RNA binding protein mapping: RIP, CLIP, HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP

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PAR CLIP

PAR-CLIP 

Photoactivatable-Ribonucleoside-Enhanced Cross linking and Immunoprecipitation

PAR-CLIP is a method for identifying RBP binding sites on target RNAs with nucleotide-level resolution.

It's applicable to any protein that contact directly RNA, including RBPs that are predicted to bind in a sequence- or structure- dependent manner at discrete RNA recognition elements (RREs), and those that are thought to bind transiently, such as RNA polymerases or helicases.

In PAR-CLIP are

Important features : 

  • Photoactivatable ribonucleosides, usually the 4-thiouridine (4SU) and  more rarely the  6-thioguanine (6SG), are incorporated into nascent RNA transcripts. 

  • The labeled RNAs are excited in living cells with UVA or UVB light (>310 nm) and yield photoadducts with interacting RBPs, that a represents an increased cross-linking efficiency compared to 254 nm CLIP
  • A characteristic mutation (T-to-C for 4SU and G-to-A for 6SG) is introduced during reverse transcription at the position of cross-linking. This mutation permits the localization  the sites of RNA–RBP interaction with nucleotide resolution and  enables the user to computationally remove the ubiquitous background of co-purifying fragments of cellular RNAs that otherwise may be misinterpreted as signal
Method :

Preparation of UV-Crosslinked RNPs 
  1. Expanding Cells
  2. UV-cross-linking 
  3. Cell Lysis and RNase T1 Digest

Immunoprecipitation and Recovery of Crosslinked Target RNA Fragments

  1. Preparation of Magnetic Beads
  2. Immunoprecipitation (IP), Second RNase T1 Digestion, and Dephosphorylation
  3. Radiolabeling of RNA Segments Crosslinked to Immunoprecipitated Proteins
  4. SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, Transfer, and Recovery of RNA from Nitrocellulose Membrane
  5. Proteinase K Digestion

cDNA Library Preparation and Deep Sequencing

  1. 3′ Adapter Ligation
  2. 5′ Adapter Ligation
  3. Reverse Transcription
  4. PCR Amplification
  5. Optional: Determination of Incorporation Levels of 4-Thiouridine into Total RNA

PAR-CLIP Analysis

  1. Illumina sequencing : >200 million sequence reads per sample
  2. Sophisticated approaches to identify binding sites
  3. Calculation of  the common sequence motifs of the RRE using one of the programs developed for the analysis of transcription-factor binding sites on DNA ( MEME, MDScan, PhyloGibbs, cERMIT, Gimsan)

Generally, the analysis of the sequence reads begins by alignment to the genome, allowing for at least one error (substitution, insertion, or deletion) to capture cross-linked reads with cross-linking-induced mutations. 

Next, overlapping sequence reads are grouped, taking into account the frequency of cross-linking-induced mutations.

The frequency of the T-to-C mutations (or G-to-A mutations when using 6SG) allows ranking of groups to predict those interactions with the highest functional impact. 


It's possible to found additional and interesting informations on this video 


(Audisio Alice)