Lin Chan, Feng Yujie, Peng Xueyan, Wu Jiaming, Wang Weili, Liu Yunfeng
State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China.
Bio Protoc. 2021 Sep 5;11(17):e4142. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4142.
Small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs) are vital for eukaryotic cell activities and play important roles in pre-mRNA splicing. The molecular mechanism underlying the transcription of snRNA, regulated via upstream/downstream cis-elements and relevant trans-elements, has been investigated in detail using cell-free extracts. However, the processing of precursor snRNA (pre-snRNA), which is required by 3' end maturation of pre-snRNA, remains unclear as a proper processing assay is difficult to develop . Here, we present an method using synthetic labeled RNA as substrates to study the 3' cleavage of pre-snRNA.
小核RNA(snRNA)对真核细胞活动至关重要,并且在信使前体核糖核酸(pre-mRNA)剪接中发挥重要作用。通过无细胞提取物已详细研究了snRNA转录的分子机制,该机制通过上游/下游顺式元件和相关反式元件进行调控。然而,由于难以开发合适的加工检测方法,前体snRNA(pre-snRNA)的加工(这是pre-snRNA 3'末端成熟所必需的)仍不清楚。在这里,我们提出了一种使用合成标记RNA作为底物来研究pre-snRNA 3'切割的方法。