The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
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Blog Post
...neither the aptamer nor the small molecule are strongly fluorescent but the binding of an aptamer to its...plasmids encoding aptamer-tagged RNA and later introducing the small molecule into the cell. The fluorescence...metabolites, leading to conformational changes that control the expression of coding RNA. Spinach-based riboswitches...then identified through microfluidic-assisted in vitro compartmentalisation for their high binding affinity...