Single molecule-sensitive probes for imaging RNA in live cells.
To visualize native or non-engineered RNA in live cells with single-molecule sensitivity, we developed multiply labeled tetravalent RNA imaging probes (MTRIPs). When delivered with streptolysin O into living human epithelial cancer cells and primary chicken fibroblasts, MTRIPs allowed the accurate imaging of native mRNAs and a non-engineered viral RNA, of RNA co-localization with known RNA-binding proteins, and of RNA dynamics and interactions with stress granules.
Santangelo
Philip J
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Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. philip.santangelo@bme.gatech.edu
Lifland
Aaron W
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Curt
Paul
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Sasaki
Yukio
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Bassell
Gary J
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Lindquist
Michael E
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Crowe
James E
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