MeRIP sequencing analysis of PK15 cell line infected with PRV

Purpose: Evaluation of the m6A modification of PRV and PK15 transcripts during PRV infection Methods: Porcine kidney cell line PK15 was uninfected or infected with PRV for 24 hours. Total RNA from each sample were extracted. Intact mRNA was isolated from total RNA samples and then chemically fragmented to 300-nucleoside-long fragments. Fragmented mRNAs were immunoprecipitated with anti-N6-methyadenosine (m6A) antibody (a part of the fragmented mRNAs was kept as input). Both m6A enriched mRNAs and input mRNAs were concentrated for RNA-seq libraries construction. The libraries were forwarded to sequencing run on Illumina NovaSeq 6000. Results: PRV transcripts were m6A modified during PRV infection and PRV infection changed m6A modification profiles of PK15 transcripts. Overall design: Conduct three independent biological repetitions to infect or uninfect with PRV in parallel, and collect the total RNA samples obtained from three biological repetitions as Mock group and PRV group.