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Table 3 Detection techniques of small RNAs

From: Small RNA modifications: regulatory molecules and potential applications

Method

Verified small RNA species

Specific features of the approach

References

ARM-seq

tRNA, tsRNA

AlkB treatment to remove m1A, m3C and m1G modifications in tRNA

[194]

DM-tRNA-seq

tRNA

AlkB treatment to remove m1A, m3C and m1G modifications in tRNAs; thermostable group II intron RT (TGIRT) with high processivity to generate cDNA from highly structured tRNA adds RNA-seq adaptors by template-switching without RNA ligation

[195]

multiplex small RNA-seq library preparation method (MSR-seq)

tRNA, tsRNA and other small RNAs

Design of a biotinylated oligonucleotide used for barcode adapter ligation, immobilization, on-bead reverse transcription, second adapter ligation and PCR; AlkB treatment removes m1A and m1G modifications in tRNAs

[196]

CPA-seq

small RNAs including tsRNA, snsRNA, snosRNA, lncsRNA, miRNA

Use of a deacylation buffer (pH = 9.0) to remove aminoacyl residues in aminoacyl-tRNA-derived 3′-tsRNAs; Cap-Clip to remove the 5′-cap and 5′-ppp from RNAs to generate 5′-P termini; T4 PNK to reduce terminus multiplicities; AlkB and AlkB(D135S) (AlkB mix) used to remove methylation in m1A, m3C and m1G; TGIRT-III, a highly processive reverse transcriptase, used to increase the detection of sRNAs derived from tRNAs containing m1A, m3C and m1G sites

[197]

PANDORA-seq

miRNA, tsRNA and rsRNA

AlkB treatment to remove m1A, m3C, m1G and m22G modifications in tsRNAs;T4PNK treatment to convert 5′-OH at the 5′end into 5′-P and 3′-P and 2′,3′- cP at the 3′end into 3′-OH

[198]

AQRNA-seq

all types(tRNA and miRNA, mRNA, rRNA, etc.)

AlkB treatment to remove m1A, m1G and m1I modifications; Shrimp alkaline phosphate treatment to convert 5′-P into 5′-OH and 3′-P into 3′-OH; Adaptor ligation at the 3′end of RNAs, to resolve the issue of 5′terminal modification

[199]

cP-RNA-seq

5′-tRNA halves; cP-containing RNA repertoires in various transcriptomes

Gel-purified RNAs specific sizes are purified and treated with a phosphatase (CIP), followed by treatment with a periodate (NaIO4) to disrupt 3′-ends of RNAs containing 3′-P and 3′-OH ends; T4PNK to selectively capture RNAs with 2′,3′-cP at their 3′ termini

[200]

5´XP sRNA-seq

miRNA, piRNA, tsRNA and rsRNA

Simultaneous capture of 5′-P and non-5′-P RNAs with the 5′-P RNA tagged with a barcode sequence resolved during bioinformatic analyses

[201]