1. RNA extraction from Gram-positive bacteria membrane vesicles using a polymer-based precipitation method
Paul Briaud and Ronan Kevin Carroll
2. Extraction and purification of outer membrane vesicles and their associated RNAs
Anaïs Blache and Wafa Achouak
3. Analysis of phage regulatory RNAs: sequencing library construction from the fraction of small prokaryotic RNAs less than 50 nucleotides in length
Sylwia Bloch, Natalia Lewandowska, Wojciech Wesołowski, Aleksandra Łukasiak, Paulina Mach, Bożena Nejman-Faleńczyk and Grzegorz Węgrzyn.
4. Discovering Novel Bacterial Small RNA by RNA-seq Analysis Toolkit ANNOgesic
Chin-Hsien Tai, Deborah Hinton, and Sung-Huan Yu
Part II: sRNA functions
5. Ribosome profiling methods adapted to the study of RNA-dependent translation regulation in Staphylococcus aureus
Maximilian P. Kohl, Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming, Roberto Bahena-Ceron, José Jaramillo, Laura Antoine, Lucas Herrgott, Pascale Romby, and Stefano Marzi
6. CRISPR interference-based functional small RNA genomics
Gianluca Prezza andAlexander Westermann
7. Investigation of sRNA-mRNA interactions in Bacillus subtilis in vivo
Inam Ul Haq, Peter Müller, and Sabine Brantl
8. In vitro methods for the investigation of sRNA-mRNA interactions in Bacillus subtilis
Inam Ul Haq, Peter Müller, and Sabine Brantl
9. RNA double helix hybridization measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Arne Werner
10. New perspectives on cross talks between bacterial regulatory RNAs from outer membrane vesicles and eukaryotic cells
Moumita Roy Chowdhury and Eric Massé
11. Experimental validation of RNA-RNA interactions by Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
Eva Maria Sternkopf Lillebæk and Birgitte Haahr Kallipolitis.
12. Dynamics and function of sRNA/mRNAs under the scrutiny of computational simulation methods
Agustín Ormazábal, Juliana Palma, and Gustavo Pierdominici-Sottile
13. Analysis of sRNAs and their mRNA targets in Sinorhizobium meliloti: focus on half-live determination
Robina Scheuer, Jennifer Kothe, Jan Wähling, and Elena Evguenieva-Hackenberg
14. Evaluation of 5'-end phosphorylation for small RNA stability and target regulation in vivo.
Alexandra Schilder, Yvonne Göpel, Muna Ayesha Khan, and Boris Görke
15. In-gel cyanoethylation for pseudouridines mass spectrometry detection of bacterial regulatory RNA.
Antony Lechner and Philippe Wolff
Part III: sRNA interactome
16. Directed screening for sRNA targets in E. coli using a plasmid library.
Xing Luo and Nadim Majdalani
17. Defining Bacterial RNA-RNA Interactomes Using CLASH
Sofia Esteban-Serna, Liang-Cui Chu, Mehak Chauhan, Pujitha Raja, an dSander Granneman
18. Global identification of RNA-binding proteins in bacteria
Thomas Søndergaard Stenum and Erik Holmqvist
19. An integrated affinity chromatography-based approach to unravel the sRNA interactome in nitrogen-fixing rhizobia
Natalia Isabel García-Tomsig, Antonio Lagares Jr., Anke Becker, Claudio Valverde, and José Ignacio Jiménez-Zurdo
Part IV: sRNA structure
20. sRNA structural modeling based on NMR data
Pengzhi Wu and Lingna Yang
21. Circular and linear dichroism for the analysis of small noncoding RNA properties
Florian Turbant, Kevin Mosca, Florent Busi, Véronique Arluison, and Frank Wien
This second edition details new and updated methods used for studying prokaryotic non-coding RNAs and their protein accomplices. Chapters detail discovery of ncRNAs, characterization of their structure, functions, and their interactomes. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Bacterial Regulatory RNA: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.