Abstract
Most transcriptome studies involve sequencing and quantification of steady-state mRNA by isolating and sequencing poly (A) RNA. Although this type of sequencing data is informative to determine steady-state mRNA levels, it does not provide information on transcriptional output and thus may not always reflect changes in transcriptional regulation of gene expression . Furthermore, sequencing poly (A) RNA may miss transcribed regions of the genome not usually modified by polyadenylation which includes many long non-coding RNAs including enhancer RNA (eRNA). Here, we describe nuclear RNA sequencing (nucRNA-seq) which investigates the transcriptional landscape through sequencing and quantification of nuclear RNAs which are both unspliced and spliced transcripts for protein-coding genes and nuclear-retained long non-coding RNAs.
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This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (operating and infrastructure grants held by JAM). Studentship funding held by NKD was provided by Ontario Graduate Scholarships.
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Dhaliwal, N.K., Mitchell, J.A. (2021). Nuclear RNA Isolation and Sequencing. In: Zhang, L., Hu, X. (eds) Long Non-Coding RNAs. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2372. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1697-0_8
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