Digestion protocol¶

• Starting amounts 1 and 10 micrograms of RNA (both N2 and P6661 and P6662 worms)

• Enzymes:

1. Snake Venom Phosphodiesterase - to cleave RNA - http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/p3243?lang=de&region=DE
2. Bacterial Phosphatase - to dephopshorylate nucleotides to nucleosides - http://www.carlroth.com/catalogue/catalogue.do?favOid=0000000b000320fd00010023&act=showBookmark&lang=en-nl&market=NL

• Digestion conditions

Original - 50mM Tris (pH 7.5 - 9)
Preferred due to LC-MS/MS compatibility - 0.1 M ammonium bicarbonate, pH 8.0 or 0.1M TEAB pH 8

• Sample precipitation for LC-MS/MS analysis

Ethanol precipitation using 1/10 sample volume 3M sodium acetate pH 5.3 and 3 times sample volume absolute EtOH (-20 deg). Incubation for >2h to overnight. Centrifugation at 13000 (4 deg) and dry supernatant for analysis.

This step precipitates the digestion enzymes and undigested material. Dephosphorylated nucleosides remain in the supernatant.