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For modified iCLIP experiment, 4SU was used for crosslinking as described in published protocol (citation is bellow) and the RNase conditions were optimised to ensure efficient RNase I-dependent fragmentation. In detail, HEK293T cells were grown on 10 cm 2 dishes, incubated for 8 h with 100 μM 4SU and crosslinked with 2x 400mJ/cm 2 365nm UV light. Protein A Dynabeads were used for immunoprecipitations (IP). 80 μl of beads were washed in iCLIP lysis buffer (50mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 100 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 0.1% SDS, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate). For the preparation of the cell lysate, 2 million cells were lysed in 1 ml of iCLIP lysis buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 100 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 0.1% SDS, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate) buffer, and the remaining cell pellet was dissolved in 50 L MSB lysis buffer (as above). After the pellet had dissolved, the mixture was diluted with CLIP lysis buffer to 1000 l and an additional centrifugation was performed. Lysates were pooled (2ml total volume) and incubated with 4 U/ml of RNase I and 2 l antiRNase (1/1000, AM2690, Thermo Fisher) at 37°C for 3 min, and centrifuged. We took care to prepare the initial dilution of RNase in water, since we found that RNase I gradually loses its activity when diluted in the lysis buffer. 1.5 ml of the supernatant was then added to the beads and incubated at 4°C for 4 h. The rest of the protocol was identical to the published protocol (see bellow). Huppertz I, Attig J, D'Ambrogio A, Easton LE, Sibley CR, Sugimoto Y, Tajnik M, König J, Ule J: iCLIP: protein-RNA interactions at nucleotide resolution. Methods 2014, 65:274-287. |