Chapter title |
Single-Molecule Analysis for RISC Assembly and Target Cleavage
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Chapter number | 10 |
Book title |
Argonaute Proteins
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7339-2_10 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7338-5, 978-1-4939-7339-2
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Authors |
Hiroshi M. Sasaki, Hisashi Tadakuma, Yukihide Tomari |
Abstract |
RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) is a small RNA-protein complex that mediates silencing of complementary target RNAs. Biochemistry has been successfully used to characterize the molecular mechanism of RISC assembly and function for nearly two decades. However, further dissection of intermediate states during the reactions has been warranted to fill in the gaps in our understanding of RNA silencing mechanisms. Single-molecule analysis with total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy is a powerful imaging-based approach to interrogate complex formation and dynamics at the individual molecule level with high sensitivity. Combining this technique with our recently established in vitro reconstitution system of fly Ago2-RISC, we have developed a single-molecule observation system for RISC assembly. In this chapter, we summarize the detailed protocol for single-molecule analysis of chaperone-assisted assembly of fly Ago2-RISC as well as its target cleavage reaction. |
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