Spinach Fluoresecent RNA

Coming Soon from SBI

SBI is developing a suite of RNA research tools based on the Spinach technology as described in Jeremy S. Paige, Karen Y. Wu and Samie R. Jaffrey. RNA Mimics of Green Fluorescent Protein. Science. 2011 Jul (333):642-646.

The technology will enable live-cell imaging of RNAs tagged with Spinach, and additional applications.

SBI will be offering the following products featuring the Spinach GFP mimic:

• Lentiviral-based Spinach cloning vectors
• PiggyBac transposon-based Spinach cloning vectors
• Spinach-tagged lncRNA expression clones
• Spinach imaging dye, media and transfection reagents

Expected launch in Summer of 2012.