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[Methods in Molecular Biology] Plant Long Non-Coding RNAs Volume 1933 (Methods and Protocols) || Trimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (TriFC) Assay for Visualization of RNA-Protein Interaction in Plants
摘要: RNA-protein interactions play important roles in various eukaryotic biological processes. Molecular imaging of subcellular localization of RNA-protein complexes in plants is critical for understanding these interactions. However, methods to image RNA-protein interactions in living plants have not yet been developed until now. Recently, we have developed a trimolecular fluorescence complementation (TriFC) system for in vivo visualization of RNA-protein interaction by transient expression in tobacco leaves. In this method, we combined conventional bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) system with the MS2 system (phage MS2 coat protein [MCP] and its binding RNA sequence [MS2 sequence]) to tag lncRNA. Target RNA is tagged with 6xMS2, and MCP and RNA-binding protein are fused with YFP fragments. DNA constructs encoding such fusion RNA and proteins are infiltrated into tobacco leaves with Agrobacterium suspensions. RNA-protein interaction in vivo is observed by confocal microscopy.
关键词: RNA-protein interaction,Long noncoding RNA,TriFC,Tobacco transient expression,In vivo visualization
更新于2025-11-21 11:08:12
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RNA-protein UV-crosslinking Assay
摘要: RNA-protein interactions play a crucial role in every aspect of RNA metabolism, and also plays a major role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. RNA-binding proteins have been implicated in viral gene expression (Ray and Das, 2002) and microRNA-mediated gene regulation (Poria et al., 2016). Here we have described the protocol which (1) covalently links transiently interacting RNA-protein complexes by UV crosslinking, (2) removes the unprotected RNA by RNase digestion and (3) detects the RNA-protein complexes by SDS-PAGE analysis. This protocol provides a rapid and reliable means to directly assay RNA-protein interactions and their kinetics using purified proteins and also help in identifying novel RNA-protein interactions
关键词: UV-crosslinking,RNA-protein interaction,RNA-binding proteins
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14