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Hochdurchsatztechnologien zur Detektion von RNA Modifikationen

Antragsteller Professor Dr. Mark Helm
Fachliche Zuordnung Biochemie
Förderung Förderung von 2013 bis 2017
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 242474743
 
Erstellungsjahr 2018

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

RNA modifications are chemical alterations of the four classical nucleosides typically contained in naturally occurring RNA. Recent progress has unveiled a strong influence on such modifications on a plethora of aspects of the regulation of gene expression, even including aspects of inheritance. The latter being unrelated to the sequence information of the genome proper has led to the coining of epitranscriptomics as a key word that now characterizes the field. Progress in this field is strongly limited by the lack of methods suited to accurately and precisely determine the positions of the up to 150 chemically distinct RNA modifications in the sequence of the epitranscriptome. In the course of this project, several types of chemistry were tested for their suitability to be used in approaches of RNA high-throughput sequencing (RNA seq). For two types of RNA modifications, namely m1A and Nm, methods were developed to the level of fully-fledged analysis packages including bioinformatic tools for screening a given transcriptome.

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