TY - JOUR T1 - Studying RNA–DNA interactome by Red-C identifies noncoding RNAs associated with repressed chromatin compartment and reveals transcription dynamics JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/859504 SP - 859504 AU - Alexey A. Gavrilov AU - Anastasiya A. Zharikova AU - Aleksandra A. Galitsyna AU - Artem V. Luzhin AU - Natalia M. Rubanova AU - Arkadiy K. Golov AU - Nadezhda V. Petrova AU - Maria D. Logacheva AU - Omar L. Kantidze AU - Sergey V. Ulianov AU - Mikhail D. Magnitov AU - Andrey A. Mironov AU - Sergey V. Razin Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/12/02/859504.abstract N2 - Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) participate in various biological processes, including regulating transcription and sustaining genome 3D organization. Here, we present a method termed Red-C that exploits proximity ligation to identify contacts with the genome for all RNA molecules present in the nucleus. Using Red-C, we uncovered the RNA–DNA interactome of human K562 cells and identified hundreds of ncRNAs enriched in active or repressed chromatin, including previously undescribed RNAs. We found two microRNAs—MIR3648 and MIR3687 transcribed from the rRNA locus—that are associated with inactive chromatin genome wide. These miRNAs favor bulk heterochromatin over Polycomb-repressed chromatin and interact preferentially with late-replicating genomic regions. Analysis of the RNA–DNA interactome also allowed us to trace the kinetics of messenger RNA production. Our data support the model of co-transcriptional intron splicing, but not the hypothesis of the circularization of actively transcribed genes. ER -