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Reka A Haraszti1, Joerg E Braun2
1RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Colocalization single-molecule spectroscopy (CoSMoS) allows studying RNA-protein complexes in the full complexity of their cellular environment at single-molecule resolution. Conventionally, the interaction between a single RNA species and multiple proteins is monitored in real time. However, comparing interactions of the same proteins with different RNA species in the same cell extract promises unique insights into RNA biology. Here, we describe an approach to monitor multiple RNA species simultaneously to enable direct comparison. This approach represents a technological development to avoid conventional inter-experiment comparisons.
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