mRNA-Seq of neuronal compartments with perturbed mRNA degradation machinery (overexpression of dnCaf1) in mouse primary cortical neurons

To study the correlation between mRNA stability and subcellular mRNA localisation we globally interferred with mRNA degradation in primary cortical neurons by overexpressing a catalytic mutant of deadenylase CAF1 that functions as a dominant negative form. Neurons were separated into subcellular compartments (neurite, soma-cytoplasm and nucleus) and sequenced in parallel with respective compartments from GFP- expressing control neuons.