Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Chemical reversible crosslinking enables measurement of RNA 3D distances and alternative conformations in cells

  • Ryan Van Damme,
  • Kongpan Li,
  • Minjie Zhang,
  • Jianhui Bai,
  • Wilson H. Lee,
  • Joseph D. Yesselman,
  • Zhipeng Lu,
  • Willem A. Velema

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28602-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Determination of RNA 3D structures in vivo is a challenging problem. Here, the authors describe a chemical crosslinking method (SHARC) that they use in combination with RNA sequencing to measure distances between nucleotides in RNA 3D structures.