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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 69-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0381-8
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-16-CE11-0010-01/02, ANR-10-BINF_02_02]
- European Research Council ERC Consolidator grant BrightSens [648528]
- LabEx [ANR-10-LABX-0036_NETRNA]
- Universite de Strasbourg
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Live-cell imaging of RNA has remained a challenge because of the lack of naturally fluorescent RNAs. Recently developed RNA aptamers that can light-up small fluorogenic dyes could overcome this limitation, but they still suffer from poor brightness and photostability. Here, we propose the concept of a cell-permeable fluorogenic dimer of self-quenched sulforhodamine B dyes (Gemini-561) and the corresponding dimerized aptamer (o-Coral) that can drastically enhance performance of the current RNA imaging method. The improved brightness and photostability, together with high affinity of this complex, allowed direct fluorescence imaging in live mammalian cells of RNA polymerase III transcription products as well as messenger RNAs labeled with a single copy of the aptamer; that is, without tag multimerization. The developed fluorogenic module enables fast and sensitive detection of RNA inside live cells, while the proposed design concept opens the route to new generation of ultrabright RNA probes.
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