Pol II CLIP

Crosslinking and Immunoprecipitation of RNA Polymerase II

Pol II CLIP was developed to isolate and sequence noncoding RNAs involved in transcriptional regulation, particularly RNAPII-mediated transcription (Li et al., 2015). Briefly, cells are UV-crosslinked at 254 nm and lysed. Anti-RNAPII antibodies are used to immunoprecipitate the RNAPII complexes. Next, the RNAPII complexes are separated via proteinase K reverse-crosslinking. The released RNA released is isolated, reverse-transcribed, and prepared into sequencing libraries. The CLIP RNA samples are ready for sequencing.

Advantages:

  • Identifies ncRNA sequences involved in transcriptional regulation
  • Simple procedure

Disadvantages:

  • None reported yet


Reagents:

Illumina Library prep and Array Kit Selector



Reviews:

Qu S., Yang X., Li X., Wang J., Gao Y., et al. Circular RNA: A new star of noncoding RNAs. Cancer Lett. 2015;365:141-148



References:

Li Z., Huang C., Bao C., et al. Exon-intron circular RNAs regulate transcription in the nucleus. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015;