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Visualization of RNA using fluorescence complementation triggered by aptamer-protein interactions (RFAP) in live
Maria Valencia-Burton1, Natalia E Broude
1Center for Advanced Biotechnology, College of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
|January 30, 2008
Abstract:
This unit describes a method allowing RNA visualization in live cells. The method is based on fluorescent protein complementation regulated by RNA-aptamer/RNA-binding protein interactions. Based on these two principles, a fluorescent ribonucleoprotein complex is assembled inside the cell only in response to the presence of the aptamer sequence on the target RNA.

