Abstract
RNA metabolism involves regulatory processes, such as transcription, splicing, nuclear export, transport and localization, association with sites of RNA modification, silencing and decay, and necessitates a wide variety of diverse RNA-interacting proteins. These interactions can be direct via RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) or indirect via other proteins and RNAs that form ribonucleoprotein complexes that together control RNA fate. While pull-down methods for the isolation of known RBPs are commonly used, strategies have also been described for the direct isolation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and their associated factors. The latter techniques allow for the identification of interacting proteins and RNAs, but most suffer from problems of low sensitivity and high background. Here we describe a simple and highly effective method for RNA purification and identification (RaPID) that allows for the isolation of specific mRNAs of interest from yeast and mammalian cells, and subsequent analysis of the associated proteins and RNAs using mass spectrometry and reverse transcription-PCR, respectively. This method employs the MS2 coat RBP fused to both GFP and streptavidin-binding protein to precipitate MS2 aptamer-tagged RNAs using immobilized streptavidin.
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We thank Pravinkumar Purushothaman and Johannes Koch for the critical reading of this manuscript. This work was supported by a grant to J.E.G. from the Yeda CEO Fund, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Minerva Foundation, Germany. J.E.G. holds the Besen-Brender Chair of Microbiology and Parasitology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
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Slobodin, B., Gerst, J.E. (2011). RaPID: An Aptamer-Based mRNA Affinity Purification Technique for the Identification of RNA and Protein Factors Present in Ribonucleoprotein Complexes. In: Gerst, J. (eds) RNA Detection and Visualization. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 714. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-005-8_24
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