You are here
Jon's Blog
| Post date | ||
|---|---|---|
| Phosphorothioates, Morpholinos and cellular changes |
Here is a discussion of protein interactions and other cellular changes caused by phosphorothioate oligos that are not seen with Morpholinos. Flynn LL, Li R, Aung-Htut MT, Pitout IL, Cooper J, Hubbard A, Griffiths L, Bond C, Wilton SD, Fox AH, Fletcher S. Interaction of modified oligonucleotides with nuclear proteins, formation of novel nuclear structures and sequence-independent effects on RNA processing. bioRxiv. 2018:446773[Preprint] doi:10.1101/446773 |
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 12:35 |
| How I really feel about five-mispair oligos |
I try to send this message with any designs involving five-mispair oligos. A brief version is farther down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Argument for using a different specificity control instead of the five-mispair |
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 11:46 |
| Purifying and analyzing Morpholinos by HPLC and detecting Morpholinos in biological samples |
HPLC purifications are most effective when Morpholinos are conjugated to a relatively big molecule, such as a peptide (say ca. 200 Daltons or larger), or are conjugated with a net-charged moiety and then the conjugate is purified to remove unreacted oligo. If you are adding a relatively small reactive group and subsequently adding the large molecule, it is probably best to do both additions prior to the purification; that way it is easier to separate the unreacted Morpholino and the activated Morpholino from the conjugate of the Morpholino with the large molecule. |
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 07:39 |
| Book: Exon Skipping and Inclusion Therapies |
Exon Skipping and Inclusion Therapies |
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 12:06 |
| Negative control Morpholino oligos |
Gene Tools offers several negative controls that are offered at reduced prices or we can synthesize custom oligos to use as negative controls. I suggest, at least initially, using the standard control oligo. |
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 10:57 |
| This blog has an index of selected posts |
I use my blog to keep track of Morpholino information that might be useful to me; that can make it tough to find the more broadly useful posts. Here's a linked list of posts I think might be useful to others. |
Monday, August 20, 2018 - 14:28 |
| Oocyte microinjection in situ (OMIS): Morpholinos in zebrafish oocytes in the ovary |
Wu X, Shen W, Zhang B, Meng A. The genetic program of oocytes can be modified in vivo in the zebrafish ovary. J Mol Cell Biol. 2018 Jul 28. doi: 10.1093/jmcb/mjy044. [Epub ahead of print] https://academic.oup.com/jmcb/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jmcb/mjy044 "Furthermore, maternal knockdown of dnmt1 by antisense morpholino via OMIS results in a dramatic decrease of global DNA methylation level at the dome stage and causes embryonic lethality prior to segmentation period." |
Monday, August 20, 2018 - 13:22 |
| Targeting non-coding RNAs: strategies and what we need to design an oligo |
Morpholinos have been used to alter activity of non-coding RNAs. A citation list is here: Targeting non-coding RNAs presents special problems. Ideally, we need to know where on the non-coding RNA an activity is located that we can block. You will need to tell us where you want the oligo targeted and we’ll try to find the best oligo sequence targeting that location. |
Monday, August 20, 2018 - 09:19 |
| Watch gene expression start to happen in an embryo |
Watching dynamics of RNA expression - paper describing a visualization technique. Movie 1: https://www.biorxiv.org/highwire/filestream/112058/field_highwire_adjunct_files/3/366468-4.mp4 |
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 13:23 |
| Morpholino duration of effect |
A researcher asked about the half-life of the Morpholino. This is much of my response. |
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 07:49 |
Pages
