Chapter title |
Live Cell Genomics: RNA Exon-Specific RNA-Binding Protein Isolation.
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Chapter number | 31 |
Book title |
Cell-Penetrating Peptides
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-2806-4_31 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-2805-7, 978-1-4939-2806-4
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Authors |
Thomas J. Bell, James Eberwine |
Editors |
Ülo Langel |
Abstract |
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are essential regulatory proteins that control all modes of RNA processing and regulation. New experimental approaches to isolate these indispensable proteins under in vivo conditions are needed to advance the field of RBP biology. Historically, in vitro biochemical approaches to isolate RBP complexes have been useful and productive, but biological relevance of the identified RBP complexes can be imprecise or erroneous. Here we review an inventive experimental to isolate RBPs under the in vivo conditions. The method is called peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-assisted identification of RBP (PAIR) technology and it uses cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) to deliver photo-activatible RBP-capture molecule to the cytoplasm of the live cells. The PAIR methodology provides two significant advantages over the most commonly used approaches: (1) it overcomes the in vitro limitation of standard biochemical approaches and (2) the PAIR RBP-capture molecule is highly selective and adaptable which allows investigators to isolate exon-specific RBP complexes. Most importantly, the in vivo capture conditions and selectivity of the RBP-capture molecule yield biologically accurate and relevant RBP data. |
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