Quantitative measurements of serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA are becoming increasingly important in the management of HCV-infected patients. Here we compared two quantitative assays, the COBAS AMPLICOR HCV Monitor 2.0 assay (Roche Diagnostics) and the branched DNA-based VERSANT HCV RNA 3.0 assay (Bayer Diagnostics) for HCV RNA measurement in 344 samples derived from 120 patients with chronic ...

Isolation of high-quality RNA is one of the most crucial methods in molecular biology. RNA extraction from woody plants has been problematic due to the presence of rigid and woody tissues, large amounts of polysaccharides, polyphenols and other secondary metabolites. Here we present a suitable protocol for RNA isolation from a wide range of woody plants that includes eight gymnosperms and four ...

nature methods | VOL.11 NO.5 | MAY 2014 | 549 The proposed RNA cell-sorting technique uses flow cytometry to measure the fluorescence of individual cells labeled with a single-molecule RNA FISH (smFISH) probe library13,14. As a proof-of-principle experiment, GFP transcripts were fluorescently labeled in cells that expressed the transgene under doxycycline control15 (Supplementary Fig. 1a–c). To...

RNA-seq has been widely adopted as a gene-expression measurement tool due to the detail, resolution, and sensitivity of transcript characterization that the technique provides. Here we present two transposon-based methods that efficiently construct high-quality RNA-seq libraries. We first describe a method that creates RNA-seq libraries for Illumina sequencing from double-stranded cDNA with onl...

By measuring messenger RNA levels for all genes in a sample, RNA-seq provides an attractive option to characterize the global changes in transcription. RNA-seq is becoming the widely used platform for gene expression profiling. However, real transcription signals in the RNA-seq data are confounded with measurement and sequencing errors and other random biological/technical variation. To extract...

Copperative interactions among constituents of the 50S ribosomal subunit of Escherichia coli have been analyzed in order to elucidate its assembly and structural organization. Proteins L5 and L18 were shown to be necessary and sufficient to effect the association of the 5S and 23S RNAs into a quaternary complex that contains equimolar amounts of all four components. Measurement of diffusion con...

background: optimized rna extraction from tissues and cell lines consists of four main stages regardless of the method of extraction: 1) homogenizing, 2) effective denaturation of proteins from rna, 3) inactivation of ribonuclease, and 4) removal of any dna, protein, and carbohydrate contamination. isolation of undamaged intact rna is challenging when the related tissue contains high levels of ...