Abstract
5-Methylcytosine (m5C) is a posttranscriptional RNA modification identified in both stable and highly abundant tRNAs and rRNAs, and in mRNAs. Many known or novel m5C sites have been validated by using advanced high-throughput techniques combined with next-generation sequencing (NGS), especially RNA bisulfite sequencing (RNA-BisSeq). Here we introduce an optimized RNA-BisSeq method by using ACT random hexamers to prime the reverse transcription of bisulfite-treated RNA samples to detect the m5C sites.
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Chen, YS., Ma, HL., Yang, Y., Lai, WY., Sun, BF., Yang, YG. (2019). 5-Methylcytosine Analysis by RNA-BisSeq. In: Wajapeyee, N., Gupta, R. (eds) Epitranscriptomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1870. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8808-2_18
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