Experiment / E7AEY4JHC3' UTR / RNA Stability MPRA (MPRAu)

PERSIST-seq pooled mRNA in-cell stability time course

Combinatorial optimization of mRNA structure, stability, and translation for RNA-based therapeutics

The same 233 full-length barcoded reporter mRNAs were transfected into HEK293T cells, harvested over the in-cell time course, and quantified by full-length RT-PCR followed by barcode sequencing. The resulting normalized abundance trajectories quantify construct-specific mRNA decay and half-life.

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Perturbation & assay details

Basal / Untreated

PERSIST-seq uses pooled m7G-capped, poly(A)-tailed synthetic mRNAs with a barcode in the 3′ UTR. A first RT-PCR spans the full CDS to select intact transcripts before a second barcode amplicon; the author analysis fits normalized log RNA abundance over time and reports degradation_coef_in_cell, half_life_in_cell, and a model-predicted protein output that combines stability with ribosome load. The author script uses the early 1-, 7-, and 12-hour points for the stability fit.

Processed data

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Filters apply to this table only. The CSV download contains the complete processed table; filtered rows are available through the API.

Column dictionary · 25 definitions
element_id
Unique construct identifier from the authors’ pooled 233-sequence library.
construct_name
Human-readable construct/design name supplied by the authors.
library_group
Author-defined library category, such as UTR or CDS variants.
utr5_description
Description or source label for the tested 5′ UTR.
cds_description
Description or source label for the tested coding sequence.
utr3_description
Description or source label for the tested 3′ UTR.
utr5_type
Author annotation for the 5′ UTR origin/type (for example cellular, viral, or others).
cds_type
Author annotation for the CDS design type (for example start or design).
utr3_type
Author annotation for the 3′ UTR origin/type.
rna_sequence
Full synthetic reporter RNA sequence in the author annotation, including UTRs, CDS, barcode/constant regions, and flanking sequence as provided.
rna_length
Length of rna_sequence in nucleotides.
utr5_sequence
Parsed 5′ UTR nucleotide sequence in RNA alphabet.
cds_sequence
Parsed CDS nucleotide sequence when available; blank where the source annotation did not provide a parsed segment.
cds_sequence_longest
Longest CDS sequence parsed by the authors; retained because some constructs have a blank cds_sequence field.
barcode_sequence
Sequence barcode embedded in the reporter 3′ UTR and counted by short-read sequencing.
utr3_sequence
Parsed 3′ UTR nucleotide sequence in RNA alphabet when available.
long_amplicon_flag
Author processing flag indicating whether the construct was assigned to the long-amplicon class (TRUE/FALSE).
in_cell_degradation_coefficient_per_hour
Positive in-cell mRNA degradation coefficient per hour from the author’s linear fit of normalized log RNA abundance over time.
in_cell_degradation_coefficient_error_per_hour
Author-reported error estimate for the in-cell degradation coefficient.
in_cell_half_life_hours
In-cell mRNA half-life in hours, calculated from the degradation coefficient.
predicted_expression
Model-predicted protein output from the combined in-cell stability and ribosome-load measurements; arbitrary units.
predicted_expression_error
Author-reported error estimate for predicted_expression.
ribosome_load
Weighted mean ribosome load derived from normalized RNA abundance across the sucrose-gradient fractions.
ribosome_load_error
Author-reported error estimate for ribosome_load.
qc_pass
TRUE for a construct retained after modality-specific QC and finite-value filtering.

Quality control

The processed author table reports finite in-cell degradation coefficient, coefficient error, half-life, predicted expression, and predicted-expression error for 203 of 233 constructs. Rows lacking the in-cell fit were omitted from this experiment table; no values were imputed. Rows retained here pass the author’s source analysis and all required modality fields are finite.

Curation notes

The 203 retained constructs are the subset with a complete author-reported in-cell fit. The remaining 30 constructs remain represented in the translation table and in raw_data, but are omitted here rather than given synthetic decay values.

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