Nuclear RNA Isolation and Sequencing

Methods Mol Biol. 2016:1402:63-71. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3378-5_7.

Abstract

Most transcriptome studies involve sequencing and quantification of steady-state mRNA by isolating and sequencing poly (A) RNA. Although this type of sequencing data is informative to determine steady-state mRNA levels it does not provide information on transcriptional output and thus may not always reflect changes in transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Furthermore, sequencing poly (A) RNA may miss transcribed regions of the genome not usually modified by polyadenylation which includes many long noncoding RNAs. Here, we describe nuclear-RNA sequencing (nucRNA-seq) which investigates the transcriptional landscape through sequencing and quantification of nuclear RNAs which are both unspliced and spliced transcripts for protein-coding genes and nuclear-retained long noncoding RNAs.

Keywords: Cellular fractionation; LncRNA; Massively parallel sequencing; Nuclear RNA; Transcriptome profiling.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Fractionation / methods
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods
  • Humans
  • Polyadenylation
  • RNA, Long Noncoding / genetics
  • RNA, Long Noncoding / isolation & purification
  • RNA, Nuclear / genetics*
  • RNA, Nuclear / isolation & purification*
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA / methods*
  • Transcriptome*

Substances

  • RNA, Long Noncoding
  • RNA, Nuclear