Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

A protein-independent fluorescent RNA aptamer reporter system for plant genetic engineering

  • Jiuyuan Bai,
  • Yao Luo,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Shi Li,
  • Mei Luo,
  • Meng Yin,
  • Yuanli Zuo,
  • Guolin Li,
  • Junyu Yao,
  • Hua Yang,
  • Mingdi Zhang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Maolin Wang,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Chunhai Fan,
  • Yun Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17497-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Fluorescent RNA aptamers could potentially be used as protein-independent reporters of transgene expression in plants. Here, the authors report that an optimized RNA aptamer, developed from Broccoli, can be used to detect transgene expression in stable and transiently transformed plant tissue.