A customized RNA (5′-GCAUCAGAAAUACACCCGUAGGGCUUU-GAGA-3′) with all the dinucleotide combinations (42 = 16) and four homopolymer sequences was purchased from Integrated DNA Technology (IDT). Yeast tRNAPhe was obtained from Sigma, and all other chemicals were procured from Thermo Fisher Scientific. RNase T1 was obtained from Worthington Biochemical Corporation. RNase MC1 [11 (link)] and cusativin [12 (link)] were purified on a nickel column using His-tag protein purification kit (EMD Millipore) following their expression from recombinant plasmids in Rosetta TM (DE3) and BL21 strains of Escherichia coli, as described before.
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