CATS Total RNA-seq Kit (with rRNA depletion) v2 x24

• Ligation-free  assay - increased efficiency and minimum bias
• Low inputs down to 100 picograms
• User-friendly: reduced hands-on  time with fewer steps than competing methods
• Libraries ready to sequence in only 5 hours
• Retaining strand specificity of origin

Workflow

Schematic representation of the workflow used by the CATS Small RNA-seq Kit. Single stranded RNAs are first dephosphorylated (end-repaired) and polyadenylated at the 3’-end. Subsequently, a cDNA strand synthesis is performed in the presence of the anchored poly(dT) oligonucleotide containing terminal P7 Illumina® adaptor sequence. When the reverse transcriptase reaches the 5’-end of the RNA it switches the template and continue DNA synthesis over the template-switching oligonucleotide (TSO). The TSO contains three 3’-terminal ribonucleotides X (rX) which facilitate the template switching and carry the terminal P5 Illumina® adaptor sequence. During PCR pre-amplification of the first cDNA strand, Illumina® adapters carrying P5 and P7 terminal sequences (required for clustering on an Illumina® flow cell) as well as index sequences are incorporated into the library. The sum size of the adapters (the size of “empty” library) is 143 bp.