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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages 3089-3095Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05981d
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- DFG [RA863/15-1, RE2796/6-1, RE2796/7-1]
- ERC (RNActivate) [772280]
- Medical Faculty of the University of Muenster
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Live imaging of mRNA in cells and organisms is important for understanding the dynamic aspects underlying its function. Ideally, labeling of mRNA should not alter its structure or function, nor affect the biological system. However, most methods applied in vivo make use of genetically encoded tags and reporters that significantly enhance the size of the mRNA of interest. Alternately, we utilize the 3 ' poly(A) tail as a non-coding repetitive hallmark to covalently label mRNAs via bioorthogonal chemistry with different fluorophores from a wide range of spectra without significantly changing the size. We demonstrate that the labeled mRNAs can be visualized in cells and zebrafish embryos, and that they are efficiently translated. Importantly, the labeled mRNAs acquired the proper subcellular localization in developing zebrafish embryos and their dynamics could be tracked in vivo.
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