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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
In vivo uv-cross-linking hybridization: A powerful technique for isolating RNA binding proteins. Application to trypanosome mini-exon derived RNA
Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 21, No. 10, Year 1993
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Differential gene expression in cells is achieved, In part, through direct RNA-protein Interactions. Methods for the identification of RNA binding proteins require cross-linking of proteins to RNA by chemicals or ultraviolet (UV) light followed by chromatography or density-gradient centrifugatlon (7,11,16). We have developed a simplified method for the rapid and efficient identification of potential regulatory RNA binding proteins. In this method, irradiation of cells with UV light induces cross-links between RNA and proteins In close contact (7,11). Boiling of extracts from Irradiated cells In the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate dissociates any non-specific RNA-proteln Interactions (11). After analysis of the cell extracts by SDS-PAGE, followed by Western blotting onto a nitrocellulose membrane and washing of the filter, we have found that only RNA molecules that are covalently bound to proteins are retained on the filter. Hybridization of this Western blot with an appropriate nucleic acid probe allows detection of bands of RNA-protein complexes. Antlsera against the binding proteins are raised by Immunizing mice with a region of the nitrocellulose membrane containing the bands of RNA-protein complexes. Using this approach we have found that In African trypanosomes, mlnl-exon derived RNA transcripts form complexes with cytoplasmic binding proteins In different life cycle stages of the parasite. Evidence for the specificity of minl-exon derived RNA-protein interactions is shown using in vitro UV-cross-linking analysis In which only in vitro generated sense (but not antisense) minl-exon derived RNA transcripts form complexes with cytoplasmic proteins. © 1993 IRL Press at Oxford University Press.
Authors & Co-Authors
Pellé, Roger
Kenya, Nairobi
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, Kenya
Murphy, Noel B.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, Kenya
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Citations: 21
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
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Doi:
10.1093/nar/21.10.2453
ISSN:
03051048
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics