Title:
Single mRNA Detection Using MTRIPS-FISH

dc.contributor.advisor Santangelo, Philip
dc.contributor.author Argyropoulou, Danae
dc.contributor.committeeMember Dahlman, James
dc.contributor.department Biomedical Engineering (Joint GT/Emory Department)
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-30T16:23:55Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-30T16:23:55Z
dc.date.created 2019-05
dc.date.issued 2019-05
dc.date.submitted May 2019
dc.date.updated 2019-05-30T16:23:55Z
dc.description.abstract RNA localization and interactions within a cell can give valuable insight into the cell’s actions and reactions, especially during a disease state. Assays that give spatial information about RNA localization in cells are extremely useful as controls in interaction studies and also in providing functional understanding of cellular processes. For this purpose, Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) assays use fluorescently labeled strands of nucleic acids that are complementary to the RNA of interest to illuminate where the RNA is at that point in time. While much success has been achieved in visualizing single RNA molecules in live cells by the Santangelo Laboratory, FISH in fixed tissues with single-molecule specificity is more difficult to achieve. Here, we explore different methods of obtaining single-molecule specificity with previously validated MTRIPs molecules. We discovered that using prelabeled PNAs bound to the neutravidin protein lead to highly specific detection of single-molecule RNA, while allowing for other assays, such as Proximity Ligation, to occur simultaneously.
dc.description.degree Undergraduate
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61390
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject RNA
dc.subject Imagine
dc.subject Fluorescent in-situ hybridization
dc.subject Proximity ligation
dc.subject MTRIP
dc.title Single mRNA Detection Using MTRIPS-FISH
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Undergraduate Thesis
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local.contributor.corporatename Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
local.relation.ispartofseries Undergraduate Research Option Theses
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