Journal: Nature Communications
Article Title: Fast-exchanging spirocyclic rhodamine probes for aptamer-based super-resolution RNA imaging
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39611-1
Figure Lengend Snippet: a Schematic illustration of the construct used for expressing RhoBAST-tagged GFP mRNA. b Confocal images of HEK293T cells expressing GFP-RhoBAST 16 or GFP (control) mRNA incubated with SpyRho (100 nM) for 1 h before imaging. At least three independent experiments were carried out with similar results. c Normalized fluorescence profile along the dashed line in panel b (lower left). d Schematic illustration of the constructs used for expressing CGG-containing FMR1-GFP mRNAs fused to 16 repeats of RhoBAST and HaloTag7-Sam68. e Confocal images of live Cos7 cells expressing CGG 99 -FMR1-GFP-RhoBAST 16 , CGG 99 -FMR1-GFP or GFP (control) mRNA and HaloTag7-Sam68 fusion protein (plasmid ratio 10:1) incubated with SpyRho (100 nM) and MaP700-Halo (200 nM, SiR channel) for 1 h before imaging. At least three independent experiments were carried out with similar results. f Normalized fluorescence profiles along the dashed lines shown in e . The fluorescence in the TMR channel was normalized to the highest value detected for CGG 99 -FMR1-GFP mRNA. Scale bars, 5 µm.
Article Snippet: The vector backbone and the HaloTag7 insert were amplified by PCR using the pcDNA3-HA-Sam68-WT vector (Addgene, plasmid #17690) and pcDNA5-FRT- Halo-SNAP-NLS plasmid (kindly provided by the Johnsson group, Heidelberg) as templates.
Techniques: Construct, Expressing, Incubation, Imaging, Fluorescence, Plasmid Preparation