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  • Hedgehog shaped cDNA library

    Hi there,

    I would like to ask whether someone has ever experienced a similar problem with hexamer primed cDNA libraries?

    We have prepared a cDNA library starting with high quality RNA from mice (RIN = 9). In the final QC, we loaded a fraction of the lib onto a fragment analyzer. As you can see in the attached pic, the lib resembles a hedgehog with peaks every 10bp. When we sequenced the lib, we found that the peaks consisted of a decamer (GTATATACTA). Sometime up to 40 of these decamers are present. Thus, it´s not an issue of the fragment analyzer.

    We have really no idea what this could be. We see that for different samples, but it´s not consistent. Some days the lib looks perfect, the other day we get this shape.

    I´m really looking forward to your opinions!
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    This seems to be a rare observation. Providing more info such as workflow, input quantity, kit and posting full sequences of few of those decapolymer reads might give clues on what might be cause.

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    • #3
      We are following exactly NEB kit instructions (NEBNext® Ultra™ RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina® and NEBNext® Ultra™ Directional RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina), we start with 500 ng of total RNA. Anyone else seeing this?

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      • #4
        Hi all,

        Has anyone found an explanation for this? We are having the same problem and can't seem to find an explanation.

        We have Drop-seq libraries that we have prepared with the Nextera XT kit, they all have an exactly similar pattern of hedgehog-like spikes (see attachement).

        We have tried to use a new Nextera kit but it does the same effect. The cDNA before library prep did not have these spikes.

        I am wondering if it could be a bioanalyzer issue, so I cleaned the electrodes and ran a diagnostics but did not find anything suspicious.

        Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
        Many thanks!
        Vince
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        • #5
          Usually it either means your library is "bottomed-out" or you have some spike-in controls of fixed length. By "bottomed-out" I mean amplified from a very limited pool of input amplicons.

          As to what the spikes actually are, I always suspect they are some sort of adapter-dimer concatamers. But that is just speculation on my part.

          --
          Phillip

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