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Krzyszton, Rafal; Woschee, Daniel; Reiser, Anita; Schwake, Gerlinde; Strey, Helmut H. and Rädler, Joachim O. (2019): Single-cell kinetics of siRNA-mediated mRNA degradation. In: Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine, Vol. 21, 102077

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Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) enables the therapeutic use of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to silence disease-related genes. The efficiency of silencing is commonly assessed by measuring expression levels of the target protein at a given time point post-transfection. Here, we determine the siRNA-induced fold change in mRNA degradation kinetics from single-cell fluorescence time-courses obtained using live-cell imaging on single-cell arrays (LISCA). After simultaneous transfection of mRNAs encoding eGFP (target) and CayRFP (reference), the eGFP expression is silenced by siRNA. The single-cell time-courses are fitted using a mathematical model of gene expression. Analysis yields best estimates of related kinetic rate constants, including mRNA degradation constants. We determine the siRNA-induced changes in kinetic rates and their correlations between target and reference protein expression. Assessment of mRNA degradation constants using single-cell time-lapse imaging is fast (<30 h) and returns an accurate, time-independent measure of siRNA-induced silencing, thus allowing the exact evaluation of siRNA therapeutics. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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