Volume 52, Issue 38 pp. 10010-10013
Communication

Covalent Small-Molecule–RNA Complex Formation Enables Cellular Profiling of Small-Molecule–RNA Interactions

Dr. Lirui Guan

Dr. Lirui Guan

Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, 130 Scripps Way, 3A1, Jupiter, FL 33458 (USA)

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Prof. Dr. Matthew D. Disney

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Matthew D. Disney

Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, 130 Scripps Way, 3A1, Jupiter, FL 33458 (USA)

Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, 130 Scripps Way, 3A1, Jupiter, FL 33458 (USA)===Search for more papers by this author
First published: 01 August 2013
Citations: 72

This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (RO1-GM079235) and The Scripps Research Institute. We thank S. G. Rzuczek for the synthesis of Ht azide used to procure 2H-4 derivatives. M.D.D. is a Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar.

Graphical Abstract

Won't let you go! A strategy is described to design small molecules that react with their cellular RNA targets. This approach not only improves the activity of compounds targeting RNA in cell culture by a factor of about 2500 but also enables cell-wide profiling of its RNA targets.

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