The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
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...oligos that bind with high affinity to small molecules to induce their fluorescence. Until a binding event ...nonspecific binding with RNA by about 7x). Mango fluoresces nearly as brightly as Spinach, but binds with much...small molecule are strongly fluorescent but the binding of an aptamer to its target small molecule activates... process used to evaluate oligonucleotides for binding affinity to a specific target, and the molecular...Broccoli and their derivatives are aptamers able to bind to a small molecule derivative of GFP called 3,5...Additionally, Spinach, the first aptamer identified to bind DFHBI, is highly unstable in vivo due to poor folding...naturally occurring regions in the 5’ UTR of mRNA that bind metabolites, leading to conformational changes that...