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Visualization of Polytene Chromatin in Mosquito Cell Nuclei Using Three-Dimensional Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization.

Simon M BondarenkoJiangtao LiangMaria V SharakhovaIgor V Sharakhov
Published in: Cold Spring Harbor protocols (2022)
Chromosomes are intricately folded within the cell nucleus and interact with peripheral nuclear proteins. The chromatin architecture has a profound effect on how the genome is organized. 3D-FISH is a powerful technique that can reveal the structural and functional organization of chromosomes in the nuclear space. Here, we present a protocol for visualizing specific genomic regions in whole-mount paraformaldehyde-fixed cell nuclei of Anopheles mosquitoes. This protocol was tested in our laboratories and has been showed to be effective and reliable for visualizing genomic regions of various lengths-from 1-kb gene-scale fragments to chromosome-scale segments of DNA.
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