Abstract
The ability to monitor the behavior of specific genomic loci in living cells can offer tremendous opportunities for deciphering the molecular basis driving cellular physiology and disease evolution. Toward this goal, clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-based imaging systems have been developed, with tagging of either the nuclease-deactivated mutant of the CRISPR-associated protein 9 (dCas9) or the CRISPR single-guide RNA (sgRNA) with fluorescent protein (FP) molecules currently the major strategies for labeling. Recently, we have demonstrated the feasibility of tagging the sgRNA with molecular beacons, a class of small molecule dye-based, fluorogenic oligonucleotide probes, and demonstrated that the resulting system, termed CRISPR/MB, could be more sensitive and quantitative than conventional approaches employing FP reporters in detecting single telomere loci. In this chapter, we describe detailed protocols for the synthesis of CRISPR/MB, as well as its applications for imaging single telomere and centromere loci in live mammalian cells.
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