Chemistry Letters, Vol.40, No.11, 1247-1248, 2011
Real-time Imaging of RNA Expression in Living Cells Using Bispyrene-modified RNA Probes
We successfully monitored time-dependent RNA expression profiles using bispyrene-modified RNA probe in living cervical carcinoma cells stimulated with EGF. Fluorescence microscopy images clearly showed the RNA expression profile, and our time-dependent profiles were in good agreement with those obtained by RT-PCR. This suggests that our novel method can analyze cellular responses to specific stimuli in a time-dependent manner at a single-cell level.