Determining Alternative Protein Isoform Expression Using RNA Sequencing and Mass Spectrometry

Summary: Alternative splicing greatly expands the coding capacity of the human genome, but how many alternative transcripts are translated as proteins or carry functional importance remains unknown and awaits experimental verification. Here, we describe a protocol that combines transcriptomics (RNA-...

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Main Authors: Yu Han, Julianna M. Wright, Edward Lau, Maggie Pui Yu Lam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:STAR Protocols
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666166720301258
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Summary:Summary: Alternative splicing greatly expands the coding capacity of the human genome, but how many alternative transcripts are translated as proteins or carry functional importance remains unknown and awaits experimental verification. Here, we describe a protocol that combines transcriptomics (RNA-seq) and proteomics (mass spectrometry [MS]) analyses to identify alternative isoforms in proteomes. This workflow is applicable to custom-generated RNA-seq and MS data from matching samples, as well as the reanalysis of existing transcriptomics and proteomics datasets in public repositories.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Lau et al. (2019).
ISSN:2666-1667