Journal: Nucleic Acids Research
Article Title: A nanopore-based HIV-1 reference epitranscriptome
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkag220
Figure Lengend Snippet: A preliminary HIV-1 antisense epitranscriptome, the effect of cART and cell type on HIV-1 modification calling, and conservation of m 6 A in HIV-1 genomes from PLWH. (A) Nanopore modification-calling for HIV-1 antisense RNA from Jurkat cells. m 6 A (blue), m 5 C (green), pseudouridine (yellow), inosine (purple), and 2′- O -methylation (orange). Inset shows a close-up of the asp gene. (B) Nanopore modification-calling results for HIV-1 RNA taken from Jurkat cells treated without (darker color) or with (lighter color) cART treatment. Error bars represent the standard deviation from three separate biological replicates. (C) Nanopore modification-calling results for HIV-1 RNA taken from Jurkat cells, primary CD4+ T cells infected in vitro , supernatant of primary CD4+ T cells infected in vitro , and CD4+ T cells from PLWH samples. In each nucleotide position cluster, the first bar is Jurkat cell samples infected with HIV-1, the second bar is CD4+ T cells from healthy donors and infected with HIV-1, the third bar is the supernatant from the CD4+ T cells from healthy donors, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth bars are samples taken from CD4+ T cells from PLWH donors. (D) Top: comparison of m 6 A modifications called from HIV-1 RNA from Jurkat cells against preservation of the DRACH motifs for these m 6 A modifications sequenced from three PLWH samples. Bottom: analysis of conservation of known m 6 A modification sites in a larger dataset of HIV-1 mutations. Positions containing m 6 A between nucleotide positions 8000 and 9171 were identified and the average and median Shannon entropy for these positions are reported.
Article Snippet: For replicative NL4-3, we concentrated the supernatants over a 20% sucrose cushion at 5600 × g overnight in 15 ml tubes. p24 ELISA was performed to quantify the viral preparations (R&D Systems, HIV-1 Gag p24 Quantikine ELISA Kit).
Techniques: Modification, Methylation, Standard Deviation, Infection, In Vitro, Comparison, Preserving