Fig. 8

Schematic of RNA structure probing by PARS in zebrafish. Poly-A RNA from zebrafish is folded in-vitro. The folded RNA is cleaved by RNase V1 and S1 nuclease separately. The enzyme cut sites generate 5’P ends and 3’ OH ends at the cleaved sites. Long fragments generated by single-hit kinetics are further fragmented by alkaline hydrolysis, which blocks the 3′ site of the enzyme-cut fragments. Sequencing adapters are ligated to the 5′ end followed by alkaline phosphatase treatment to 3’ P group. Adapters are ligated to 3’ends followed cDNA synthesis and PCR purification of the library. Appropriate size of the library is maintained by purification by nucleic acid beads. Sequenced reads are aligned back to the genome and only unique reads with the correct read start positions are considered for PARS score calculation