RNA Sensors of Intracellular Metabolites

2012 ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Vineetha Zacharia ◽  
Daniel Lafontaine ◽  
Wade C. Winkler
2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 347-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rilka M. Taskova ◽  
Holger Zorn ◽  
Ulrich Krings ◽  
Henning Bouws ◽  
Ralf G. Berger

Different techniques were compared for their effectiveness in the disruption of the rigid cell walls of Basidiomycetes. Grinding under liquid nitrogen, stirred glass bead milling and enzymatic cell lysis were applied to the mycelia of Pleurotus sapidus and Lepista irina grown submerged. Each of the disruption procedures was evaluated by testing the quantity and quality of released intracellular metabolites: DNA, RNA, enzymes, and secondary metabolites. The most suitable method for nucleic acid isolation was grinding under liquid nitrogen, while bead mill homogenization was the superior technique for isolation of active enzymes. A new effective method is proposed for isolation of secondary metabolites with the aid of bead milling of fungal mycelia.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 4828-4833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhan-Ming Ying ◽  
Yue-Yan Yuan ◽  
Bin Tu ◽  
Li-Juan Tang ◽  
Ru-Qin Yu ◽  
...  

Genetically encoded light-up RNA aptamers afford a valuable platform for developing RNA sensors toward live cell imaging.


2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-340
Author(s):  
Pin Chen ◽  
Xiaoqian Chen ◽  
Wei Yu ◽  
Bo Zhou ◽  
Lihua Liu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Dalia Cicily Kattiparambil Dixon ◽  
Chameli Ratan ◽  
Bhagyalakshmi Nair ◽  
Sabitha Mangalath ◽  
Rachy Abraham ◽  
...  

: Innate immunity is the first line of defence elicited by the host immune system to fight against invading pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. From this elementary immune response, the more complex antigen-specific adaptive responses are recruited to provide a long-lasting memory against the pathogens. Innate immunity gets activated when the host cell utilizes a diverse set of receptors known as pattern recognition receptors (PRR) to recognize the viruses that have penetrated the host and respond with cellular processes like complement system, phagocytosis, cytokine release and inflammation and destruction of NK cells. Viral RNA or DNA or viral intermediate products are recognized by receptors like toll-like receptors(TLRs), nucleotide oligomerization domain(NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) and retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs) thereby, inducing type I interferon response (IFN) and other proinflammatory cytokines in infected cells or other immune cells. But certain viruses can evade the host innate immune response to replicate efficiently, triggering the spread of the viral infection. The present review describes the similarity in the mechanism chosen by viruses from different families -HIV, SARS-CoV2 and Nipah viruses to evade the innate immune response and how efficiently they establish the infection in the host. The review also addresses the stages of developments of various vaccines against these viral diseases and the challenges encountered by the researchers during vaccine development.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 4648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manikandan Santhanam ◽  
Itay Algov ◽  
Lital Alfonta

Pandemics require a fast and immediate response to contain potential infectious carriers. In the recent 2020 Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, authorities all around the world have failed to identify potential carriers and contain it on time. Hence, a rapid and very sensitive testing method is required. Current diagnostic tools, reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) and real-time PCR (qPCR), have its pitfalls for quick pandemic containment such as the requirement for specialized professionals and instrumentation. Versatile electrochemical DNA/RNA sensors are a promising technological alternative for PCR based diagnosis. In an electrochemical DNA sensor, a nucleic acid hybridization event is converted into a quantifiable electrochemical signal. A critical challenge of electrochemical DNA sensors is sensitive detection of a low copy number of DNA/RNA in samples such as is the case for early onset of a disease. Signal amplification approaches are an important tool to overcome this sensitivity issue. In this review, the authors discuss the most recent signal amplification strategies employed in the electrochemical DNA/RNA diagnosis of pathogens.


2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (22) ◽  
pp. 6311-6326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel W. Brown ◽  
Alan M. Marmelstein ◽  
Dorothea Fiedler

New chemical and analytical tools have been developed to study the diverse functions of the inositol pyrophosphates, a unique group of densely phosphorylated intracellular metabolites found in a wide variety of eukaryotic organisms.


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