An accurate quantitative method for screening effective siRNA probes targeting a Hepatitis B virus transcript in single living cells

W Tong, Y Zhou, X Wang, F Yang, KL Wu, J Wu… - Biochemical and …, 2008 - Elsevier
W Tong, Y Zhou, X Wang, F Yang, KL Wu, J Wu, Y Zhang
Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2008Elsevier
A dual fluorescence reporter plasmid expressing EGFP and DsRed-Monomer from separate
promoters was constructed for quantitative flow cytometry analysis. Cloning the hepatitis B
virus (HBV) X gene into the 3′ UTR region of DsRed-Monomer allowed quantifying the
efficacy of ten siRNAs designed according to the accessibility of HBx mRNA measured in
vitro. Using EGFP as an internal control, a justified calculation of the changed mean
fluorescence intensity of DsRed-Monomer in each transfected cell yielded highly consistent …
A dual fluorescence reporter plasmid expressing EGFP and DsRed-Monomer from separate promoters was constructed for quantitative flow cytometry analysis. Cloning the hepatitis B virus (HBV) X gene into the 3′ UTR region of DsRed-Monomer allowed quantifying the efficacy of ten siRNAs designed according to the accessibility of HBx mRNA measured in vitro. Using EGFP as an internal control, a justified calculation of the changed mean fluorescence intensity of DsRed-Monomer in each transfected cell yielded highly consistent results, and revealed all 10 siRNAs achieved over 50% inhibition among which a super effective siRNA achieved 88% inhibition at a very low concentration (0.33μg/ml). This provides a quantification method critical for therapeutic application of siRNA.
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