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In situ localization of ribosomal RNAs is a reliable reference for hybridizable RNA in tissue sections
A Yoshii, T Koji, N Ohsawa and PK Nakane
First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Japan.
Assessments of RNA integrity and its hybridizability are essential for successful implementation of in situ hybridization (ISH) for mRNA or viral RNA, particularly when paraffin-embedded specimens from surgical, biopsy, and autopsy cases are used. In this study, we examined the suitability of ISH of 28S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) for this purpose. Oligo- DNA with nucleotide sequences complementary to a well-conserved segment of 28S rRNA with auxiliary adenine-thymine-thymine (ATT) repeats at the 3' and 5' ends was synthesized. The oligo-DNA was made antigenic by converting the adjacent thymines to T-T dimers by UV irradiation and was used as a probe for ISH of 28S rRNA. The T-T dimers were detected by enzyme immunohistochemistry. When the results of ISH rRNA staining and that of total RNA staining by methyl green/pyronin Y were compared for various types of sections prepared from rat and human tissues, the staining intensities of total RNA did not always match those of ISH rRNA staining. In paraffin sections of formalin-fixed tissues, the degree of proteinase digestion influenced the ISH rRNA staining intensity, whereas it had no effect on the total RNA staining intensity. The intensities of ISH rRNA staining agreed well with those of various types of mRNA staining by ISH in 10 cases of paraffin- embedded pathological specimens. We therefore believe that ISH rRNA staining is a convenient parameter for evaluation of levels of hybridizable RNAs in tissue sections.
Volume 43,
Issue 3,
pp. 321-327,
03/01/1995
Copyright © 1995 by The Histochemical Society
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