Sensitive, multiplex and direct quantification of RNA sequences using a modified RASL assay.

ABSTRACT: A sensitive and highly multiplex method to directly measure RNA sequence abundance without requiring reverse transcription would be of value for a number of biomedical applications, including high throughput small molecule screening, pathogen transcript detection and quantification of short/degraded RNAs.

R na a

nnealing, S: election and L: igation (RASL) assays, which are based on RNA template-dependent oligonucleotide probe ligation, have been developed to meet this need, but technical limitations have impeded their adoption. Whereas DNA ligase-based RASL assays suffer from extremely low and sequence-dependent ligation efficiencies that compromise assay robustness, Rnl2 can join a fully DNA donor probe to a 3'-diribonucleotide-terminated acceptor probe with high efficiency on an R

SUBMITTER: Larman HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4132746 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature