Gable M. Wadsworth
  • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Research fields
  • Molecular biology
Single-probe RNA FISH in Yeast
Authors:  Gable M. Wadsworth, Rasesh Y. Parikh and Harold D. Kim, date: 06/05/2018, view: 7366, Q&A: 0
Quantitative profiling of mRNA expression is an important part of understanding the state of a cell. The technique of RNA Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) involves targeting an RNA transcript with a set of 40 complementary fluorescently labeled DNA oligonucleotide probes. However, there are many circumstances such as transcripts shorter than 200 nt, splicing variations, or alternate initiation sites that create transcripts that would be indistinguishable to a set of multiple probes. To this end we adapted the standard FISH protocol to allow the use of a single probe with a single fluorophore to quantify the amount of transcripts inside budding yeast cells. In addition to allowing the quantification of short transcripts or short features of transcripts, this technique reduces the cost of performing FISH.
Dual-probe RNA FRET-FISH in Yeast
Authors:  Gable M. Wadsworth, Rasesh Y. Parikh and Harold D. Kim, date: 06/05/2018, view: 7251, Q&A: 0
mRNA Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) is a technique commonly used to profile the distribution of transcripts in cells. When combined with the common single molecule technique Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), FISH can also be used to profile the co-expression of nearby sequences in the transcript to measure processes such as alternate initiation or splicing variation of the transcript. Unlike in a conventional FISH method using multiple probes to target a single transcript, FRET is limited to the use of two probes labeled with matched dyes and requires the use of sensitized emission. Any widefield microscope capable of sensitive single molecule detection of Cy3 and Cy5 should be able to measure FRET in yeast cells. Alternatively, a FRET-FISH method can be used to unambiguously ascertain identity of the transcript without the use of a guide probe set used in other FISH techniques.
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