Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Multiplex single-cell visualization of nucleic acids and protein during HIV infection

  • Maritza Puray-Chavez,
  • Philip R. Tedbury,
  • Andrew D. Huber,
  • Obiaara B. Ukah,
  • Vincent Yapo,
  • Dandan Liu,
  • Juan Ji,
  • Jennifer J. Wolf,
  • Alan N. Engelman,
  • Stefan G. Sarafianos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01693-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

Read online

Technical limitations in simultaneous microscopic visualization of HIV transcription from individual integration sites have curtailed progress in the field. Here the authors report a branched DNA in situ hybridization method for direct single-cell visualization of HIV DNA, RNA, and protein.