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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
25
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-12-10
pubmed:abstractText
Tetrahymena ribozymes hold promise for repairing genetic disorders but are largely limited by their modest splicing efficiency and low production of final therapeutic proteins. Ribozyme evolution in intact living mammalian cells would greatly facilitate the discovery of new ribozyme variants with high in vivo activity, but no such strategies have been reported. Here we present a study using a new reporter enzyme, beta-lactamase, to report splicing activity in single living cells and perform high-throughput screening with flow cytometry. The reporter ribozyme constructs consist of the self-splicing Tetrahymena thermophila group I intron ribozyme that is inserted into the ORF of the mRNA of beta-lactamase. The splicing activity in single living cells can be readily detected quantitatively and visualized. Individual cells have shown considerable heterogeneity in ribozyme activity. Screening of Tetrahymena ribozymes with insertions in the middle of the L1 loop led to identification of better variants with at least 4-fold more final in vivo activity than the native sequence. Our work has provided a new reporter system that allows high-throughput screening with flow cytometry of single living mammalian cells for a direct and facile in vivo selection of desired ribozyme variants.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
9
pubmed:volume
100
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
14892-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Cell Separation, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Microscopy, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Models, Chemical, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Nucleic Acid Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-RNA, Catalytic, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-RNA Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Tetrahymena thermophila, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:14645710-beta-Lactamases
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Imaging Tetrahymena ribozyme splicing activity in single live mammalian cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1770, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't