ICE

Inosine Chemical Erasing

ICE (Sakurai et al., 2010) (Sakurai et al., 2014) (Suzuki et al., 2015) followed by NGS identifies adenosine-to-inosine editing. In this method, RNA is treated with acrylonitrile, while control RNA is untreated. Control and treated RNAs are reverse-transcribed and PCR-amplified. Inosines in RNA fragments treated with acrylonitrile cannot be reverse-transcribed. Deep sequencing of the cDNA prepared from control and treated RNA provides high-resolution reads of inosines in RNA fragments.

Advantages:

  • Provides mapping of adenosine-to-inosine editing
  • Can be performed with limited material

Disadvantages:

  • Nonlinear PCR amplification can lead to biases, affecting reproducibility
  • Amplification errors caused by polymerases will be represented and sequenced incorrectly


Reagents:

Illumina Library prep and Array Kit Selector



Reviews:

Ramaswami G. and Li J. B. Identification of human RNA editing sites: A historical perspective. Methods. 2016;107:42-47

Frye M., Jaffrey S. R., Pan T., Rechavi G. and Suzuki T. RNA modifications: what have we learned and where are we headed? Nat Rev Genet. 2016;17:365-372



References:

Ishida K., Miyauchi K., Kimura Y., et al. Regulation of gene expression via retrotransposon insertions and the noncoding RNA 4.5S RNA. Genes Cells. 2015;