A Fur family protein BosR is a novel RNA-binding protein that controls rpoS RNA stability in the Lyme disease pathogen

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2024
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2´-O-methylation (Nm) is one of the most abundant modifications found in both mRNAs and noncoding RNAs. It contributes to many biological processes, such as the normal functioning of tRNA, the protection of mRNA against degradation by the decapping and exoribonuclease (DXO) protein, and the biogenesis and specificity of rRNA. Recent advancements in single-molecule sequencing techniques for long read RNA sequencing data offered by Oxford Nanopore technologies have enabled the direct detection of RNA modifications from sequencing data. In this study, we propose a bio-computational framework, Nm-Nano, for predicting the presence of Nm sites in direct RNA sequencing data generated from two human cell lines. The Nm-Nano framework integrates two supervised machine learning (ML) models for predicting Nm sites: Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and Random Forest (RF) with K-mer embedding. Evaluation on benchmark datasets from direct RNA sequecing of HeLa and HEK293 cell lines, demonstrates high accuracy (99% with XGBoost and 92% with RF) in identifying Nm sites. Deploying Nm-Nano on HeLa and HEK293 cell lines reveals genes that are frequently modified with Nm. In HeLa cell lines, 125 genes are identified as frequently Nm-modified, showing enrichment in 30 ontologies related to immune response and cellular processes. In HEK293 cell lines, 61 genes are identified as frequently Nm-modified, with enrichment in processes like glycolysis and protein localization. These findings underscore the diverse regulatory roles of Nm modifications in metabolic pathways, protein degradation, and cellular processes. The source code of Nm-Nano can be freely accessed at https://github.com/Janga-Lab/Nm-Nano.

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Raghunandanan S, Priya R, Alanazi F, Lybecker MC, Schlax PJ, Yang XF. A Fur family protein BosR is a novel RNA-binding protein that controls rpoS RNA stability in the Lyme disease pathogen. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024;52(9):5320-5335. doi:10.1093/nar/gkae114
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