TECHNICAL NOTE

Improved In Situ Hybridization to HIV with RNA Probes Derived from PCR Products

Correspondence to: Richard W. Cone, University Hospital, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Ramistr. 100, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland.

These experiments tested the hypothesis that a pool of PCR-derived RNA probes with defined length and even representation of the target sequences could produce more specific and intense in situ hybridization signals than randomly size-reduced, plasmid-derived RNA probes. In situ hybridization was performed with sense and anti-sense HIV-1 RNA probes that were derived from PCR products tailed with the T7 RNA polymerase promoter or from plasmid DNA. In situ hybridization using a pool of seven anti-sense or sense PCR-derived RNA probes (1805 nucleotides of HIV sequence, 257 nucleotides average probe length) was compared with hybridization using anti-sense or sense RNA probes made from a plasmid representing the HIV-1 env gene (3151 nucleotides of HIV-1 target). The pooled PCR-derived probes resulted in stronger in situ hybridization signals and less background than those produced with plasmid-derived RNA probes. This method for creating PCR-derived RNA probes improves the feasibility of synthesizing multiple, discrete RNA probes for studies of specific mRNA expression because it does not require the subcloning steps used to construct plasmids. PCR-derived RNA probes may provide a viable alternative to the use of plasmid-derived RNA probes for in situ hybridization. (J Histochem Cytochem 45:721-727, 1997)

Key Words: in situ hybridization, T7 RNA polymerase promoter, RNA, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

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