What species have you tested with your RiboMinus Eukaryote Kit for RNA-Seq?
With regard to species specificity, the following organisms have 0 mismatches for the LSU/SSU probes (LSU (28S) / SSU (18S) Probe perfect matches). This means the probes will remove the 18S and 28S sequences from the following species.
- Species from the Land: Human, mouse, rat, frog, rabbit, cow, pig, chicken, Drosophila,* Caenorhabditis elegans, midge, mosquito, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
- Species from the Sea: Sea squirt, coelacanth, lancelet, eel, salmon, sturgeon, ratfish, lamprey, brown plankton, zooplankton
- Plants: Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, rice, tomato, Humulus lupulus, Zea mays, wheat, soybean, pine, aspen
* The 28S and 18S probes in this kit respectively align 100% to the Drosophila 18S and 28S rRNA sequence. However, there are reports suggesting Drosophila (insect) 28S rRNA split into 2 smaller fragments co-migrating with 18S. The exact split site is not identified yet. But based on customer feedback, this kit does not remove the split 28S rRNA completely. We have not tested Drosophila samples with this kit.
The 5S and 5.8S sequences are more divergent, and thus the best probes possible have reduced species breadth:
- 5S: zero to 1 mismatch: human, mouse, rat, frog, chicken, Drosophila, C. elegans, A. thaliana, Z. mays
- 5.8S: zero mismatches: human, mouse, rat