Kocks Christine, Boltengagen Anastasiya, Piwecka Monika, Rybak-Wolf Agnieszka, Rajewsky Nikolaus
Systems Biology of Gene-Regulatory Elements, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany.
Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1724:77-96. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7562-4_7.
Individual mRNA molecules can be imaged in fixed cells by hybridization with multiple, singly labeled oligonucleotide probes, followed by computational identification of fluorescent signals. This approach, called single-molecule RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (smRNA FISH), allows subcellular localization and absolute quantification of RNA molecules in individual cells. Here, we describe a simple smRNA FISH protocol for two-color imaging of a circular RNA, CDR1as, simultaneously with an unrelated messenger RNA. The protocol can be adapted to circRNAs that coexist with overlapping, noncircular mRNA isoforms produced from the same genetic locus.
通过与多个单标记寡核苷酸探针杂交,然后对荧光信号进行计算识别,可以在固定细胞中对单个信使核糖核酸(mRNA)分子进行成像。这种方法称为单分子RNA荧光原位杂交(smRNA FISH),可实现单个细胞中RNA分子的亚细胞定位和绝对定量。在此,我们描述了一种简单的smRNA FISH方案,用于对环状RNA CDR1as与一种不相关的信使核糖核酸同时进行双色成像。该方案可适用于与由同一基因座产生的重叠、非环状mRNA异构体共存的环状RNA。