Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Full-length transcriptome reconstruction reveals a large diversity of RNA and protein isoforms in rat hippocampus

  • Xi Wang,
  • Xintian You,
  • Julian D. Langer,
  • Jingyi Hou,
  • Fiona Rupprecht,
  • Irena Vlatkovic,
  • Claudia Quedenau,
  • Georgi Tushev,
  • Irina Epstein,
  • Bernhard Schaefke,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Liang Fang,
  • Guipeng Li,
  • Yuhui Hu,
  • Erin M. Schuman,
  • Wei Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13037-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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It is challenging to characterize diverse transcript isoforms by short-read sequencing. Here the authors report full-length transcriptomes in rat hippocampus by hybrid-sequencing, predict isoform-specific translational status, and reconstruct open reading frames validated by mass spectrometry.