Chapter title |
Optimizing Molecular Beacons for Intracellular Analysis of RNA
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Chapter number | 16 |
Book title |
RNA Detection
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7213-5_16 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7212-8, 978-1-4939-7213-5
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Authors |
Mingming Chen, Yantao Yang, Christopher J. Krueger, Antony K. Chen |
Abstract |
Conventional molecular beacons (MBs) have been used extensively for imaging specific endogenous RNAs in living cells, but their tendency to generate false-positive signals as a result of nuclease degradation and/or nonspecific binding limits sensitive and accurate imaging of intracellular RNAs. In an attempt to overcome this limitation, MBs have been synthesized with various chemically modified oligonucleotide backbones to confer greater biostability. We have recently developed a new MB architecture composed of 2'-O-methyl RNA (2Me), a fully phosphorothioate (PS) modified loop domain and a phosphodiester stem (2Me/PSLOOP MB). We showed that this new MB exhibits a marginal level of false-positive signals and enables accurate single-molecule imaging of target RNA in living cells. In this chapter, we describe detailed methods that led us to conclude that, among various PS-modified configurations, the 2Me/PSLOOP MB is an optimal design for intracellular RNA analysis. |
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