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J Vis Exp ; (148)2019 06 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31282891

ABSTRACT

Native and denaturing polyacrylamide gels are routinely used to characterize ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex mobility and to measure RNA size, respectively. As many gel-imaging techniques use nonspecific stains or expensive fluorophore probes, sensitive, discriminating, and economical gel-imaging methodologies are highly desirable. RNA Mango core sequences are small (19-22 nt) sequence motifs that, when closed by an arbitrary RNA stem, can be simply and inexpensively appended to an RNA of interest. These Mango tags bind with high affinity and specificity to a thiazole-orange fluorophore ligand called TO1-Biotin, which becomes thousands of times more fluorescent upon binding. Here we show that Mango I, II, III, and IV can be used to specifically image RNA in gels with high sensitivity. As little as 62.5 fmol of RNA in native gels and 125 fmol of RNA in denaturing gels can be detected by soaking gels in an imaging buffer containing potassium and 20 nM TO1-Biotin for 30 min. We demonstrate the specificity of the Mango-tagged system by imaging a Mango-tagged 6S bacterial RNA in the context of a complex mixture of total bacterial RNA.


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Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel/methods , Mangifera/chemistry , RNA/analysis , Benzothiazoles/chemistry , Biotin/chemistry , Fluorescent Dyes , Ligands , Quinolines/chemistry , RNA/chemistry , RNA/metabolism , RNA, Bacterial/analysis , RNA, Bacterial/chemistry , RNA, Bacterial/metabolism , RNA, Untranslated/analysis , RNA, Untranslated/chemistry , RNA, Untranslated/metabolism
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