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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gnf107
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI36083-09, R01 AI036083] Funding Source: Medline
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Reagents for proteome research must of necessity be generated by high throughput methods. Apta mers are potentially useful as reagents to identify and quantitate individual proteins, yet are currently produced for the most part by manual selection procedures. We have developed automated selection methods, but must still individually purify protein targets. Therefore, we have attempted to select aptamers against protein targets generated by in vitro transcription and translation of individual genes. In order to specifically immobilize the protein targets for selection, they are also biotinylated in vitro. As a proof of this method, we have selected aptamers against translated human U1A, a component of the nuclear spliceosome. Selected sequences demonstrated exquisite mimicry of natural binding sequences and structures. These results not only reveal a potential path to the high throughput generation of aptamers, but also yield insights into the incredible specificity of the U1A protein for its natural RNA ligands.
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