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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA. 2018 Oct 28;10(1):e1513. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1513

Table 1:

Examples of studies using s4U labeling to assess mRNA stability in cell lines of different organisms.

Human
Cell type Concentration Time of feed Citation
BL41 (lymphoma) 100 µM s4U 1h Dölken 2008, Friedel 2009
HeLa (cervical carcinoma) 100 µM s4U
250 µM s4U
1h
1h
Dölken 2008
Borowski 2014
Jurkat (T tymphocyte) 100 µM s4U
200 µM s4U
1h
1h
Dölken 2008
Blackinton 2016
DG75 (B lymphocyte) 100 µM s4U
500 µM s4U
1h
5–60 min
Dölken 2008
Windhanger 2012
HEK293T (embryonic kidney) 250 µM s4U
100 µM s4U
700 µM s4U
1h
20 min-22 d
1h
Borowski 2014
Duffy 2015
Gregersen 2014, Duffy 2015
293A (embryonic kidney 2.5 µM s4U 2h Stubbs 2015
iPS (stem cell 400 µM s4U 2h Russo 2017
LCL (lymphoblast) 200 µM s4U 2h Duan 2013
MEWO (melanoma) 500 µM s4U 1h Azarkh 2011
Primary T-cells 200 µM s4U 1-6h Payne 2014
RAJI (lymphoblast) 300 µM s4U 30 min Donato 2016
RCC (renal carcinoma) 2 µM s4U 2h Bresson 2015
SH-SY5Y (neuroblastoma) 500 µM s4U 30 min Schwarzl 2015
143B (osteosarcoma 250 µM s4U 1h Borowski 2014
K562 500 µM s4U
100 µM s4U
1 mM s4U
5 min
4h
5 min
Schwalb 2016
Schofield 2018
Duffy 2018
MDA-MB-231 (breast cancer) 200 µM s4U 20 min Cho 2018
MCF7 (breast cancer) 400 µM s4U 2h Schwanhausser 2011
 
Mouse
NIH-3T3 (fibroblasts) 200 µM s4U
500 µM s4U
400 µM s4U
1h
<30 min
2h
Dölken 2008
Dölken 2008
Schwanhausser 2011
RAW 264.7 (macrophages) 100 µM s4U 1h Dölken 2008
SVEC 4–10 (endothelial) 100 µM s4U 1h Dölken 2008
MEF 1 mM s4U
200 µM s4U
1h
2h
Schofield 2018
Kenzelmann 2007
Primary T-cells 250 µM s4U 15 min Li 2017
Dendritic cells 150 µM s4U 45 min Rabani 2011
 
Yeast
S. cerevisiae + UPRT 200 µM 4-thiouracil 3h Muchel 2011
S. cerevisiae + hENT1 500 µM s4U 3-24 min Miller 2011
S. cerevisiae
S. pombe
5 mM 4-thiouracil
500 µM s4U
6 min
6 min
Sun 2012
Sun 2012
S. cerevisiae + FUI1 100 µM s4U 2-7 min Swaitkowska 2012
S. cerevisiae 500 µM 4-thiouracil 3-100 min Neymotin 2014
S. cerevisiae + FUI1 500 µM 4-thiouracil 1.5-5 min Barrass 2015
S. cerevisiae 50 µM 4-thiouracil 16h Miller 2018
 
Other
H. volcanii 300 µM 4-thiouracil 45 min Knüppel 2017
S. acidocaldarius 135 µM 4-thiouracil 45 min Knüppel 2017
D. melanogaster kc167 500 µM s4U 5-20 min Pai 2017
D. melanogaster kc167 300 µM s4U 30-450 min Chen and van Steensel 2017
D. melanogaster S2 200 µM s4U 2-6h Khong 2017
D. rerio (zebrafish) embryo 1 nL 50 mM s4UTP 0-9 cell
divisions
Heyn 2014