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  • barbarian
    Member
    • Feb 2015
    • 21

    #1

    RISC effect to mRNA during RNA-seq preparation

    Hello,

    I have a question regarding the RISC (RNA induced silencing complex, especially miRNA) and RNA-seq. I'm not a biologist so forgive me if I have wrong interpretation. Let's start with what I have in mind.

    So, what I think about RISC is that RISC will bind to mRNA. To simplify, I will write mRNA+RISC. What I want to understand is, what will happen with mRNA+RISC during RNA-seq preparation.

    To understand this, I need to understand how RNA-seq, especially Illumina TruSeq v2 protocol works but I'm not biologis so I don't know biochemistry that much so my understanding is limited. This is what I understand what will happen with mRNA-RISC.

    First possibility is mRNA+RSIC will not be sequenced. I think this because with the RISC bound to mRNA, mRNA will not be able to react to chemical reaction.

    Second possibility is mRNA+RISC still react to the tagging, and any other step until the fragmentation step. At the amplification step, mRNA+RISC will be fragmented. There will be some fragment which has no RISC bound to it so these kind of fragment can be amplified and the cDNA result can be sequenced. The fragment which has RISC bound to it will not be amplified because the RISC will prevent the cDNA binding to amplify the fragment. The consequences of this result is that there will be a low reads for area which RISC bound to mRNA.

    To illustrate this, suppose a mRNA length is 1000 nucleotide. RISC bound to 300-320 bp. What I expected is the aligned reads around 300-320 will be relatively low in coverage compare to other parts of the mRNA. What do you think about this?
  • nucacidhunter
    Jafar Jabbari
    • Jan 2013
    • 1250

    #2
    During RNA extraction or lysis procedure (single-cells) the RISC complex will be denatured and protein subunits will be discarded or inactivated. So it will not affect RNA-Seq results because it will not bound to RNA.

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    • barbarian
      Member
      • Feb 2015
      • 21

      #3
      Reference suggestion

      Thank you for your answer. Do you have any reference to read? A reference which will explain the process of this removal of RISC from mRNA. I have to tell my supervisor about this because he says it is possible to detect from RNA-seq reads alignment. I have tried to analyse the reads and it is really hard to notice. That's why I had a doubt that it could be detected at all.

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      • nucacidhunter
        Jafar Jabbari
        • Jan 2013
        • 1250

        #4
        Nucleic acid extraction is a process that removes all other cell materials from the input tissue including proteins (sometimes unwanted material may not be removed completely). Purified RNA does not have any proteins including RISC. Example reference:



        If your aim is to study mRNA bound to RISC you will need special techniques to isolate or enrich RISC bound RNA and then purify it for RNA-Seq library prep.

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