Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Detecting RNA base methylations in single cells by in situ hybridization

  • Rohan T. Ranasinghe,
  • Martin R. Challand,
  • Kristina A. Ganzinger,
  • Benjamin W. Lewis,
  • Charlotte Softley,
  • Wolfgang H. Schmied,
  • Mathew H. Horrocks,
  • Nadia Shivji,
  • Jason W. Chin,
  • James Spencer,
  • David Klenerman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02714-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Methylated RNA bases influence many life processes, but current detection methods lack the ability to detect individual methylations in single cells. Here, the authors use fluorescence hybridization probes sensitive to methylation to detect specific epitranscriptomic modifications at the single-cell level.