Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Genome-wide identification of natural RNA aptamers in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

  • Sidika Tapsin,
  • Miao Sun,
  • Yang Shen,
  • Huibin Zhang,
  • Xin Ni Lim,
  • Teodorus Theo Susanto,
  • Siwy Ling Yang,
  • Gui Sheng Zeng,
  • Jasmine Lee,
  • Alexander Lezhava,
  • Ee Lui Ang,
  • Lian Hui Zhang,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Huimin Zhao,
  • Niranjan Nagarajan,
  • Yue Wan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03675-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Riboswitches recognize and respond to specific metabolites by altering gene expression. Here, the authors developed a high-throughput method (PARCEL) to experimentally identify RNA aptamers across transcriptomes.