Figure 1

RNase H selective depletion of poly(rA) carrier from Lassa samples. (A) Native polyacrylamide gel depicting library PCR and side products of LASV preparations with poly(rA) carrier present (middle) or depleted (right panel). No free poly(rA) was present in control library (left). (B) Median base qualities per MiSeq cycle of poly(rA)-contaminated LASV libraries (solid line) and control (no carrier observed in library, dashed) from FastQC report. Both read 1 and read 2 of paired end reads are merged in the library BAM file and the quality scores are shown at each base. (C) Schematic of carrier RNA selective depletion and DNase treatment of oligo (dT).