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The effect of nucleobase-specific fluorescence quenching on in situ hybridization with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes.

Oligonucleotide probes labeled with fluorescent dyes are used in a variety of in situ applications to detect specific DNA or RNA molecules. It has been described that probe fluorescence might be quenched upon hybridization in a sequence specific way. Here, a set of 17 oligonuleotides labeled with 6-carboxyfluorescein was used to examine the relevance of nucleotide specific quenching for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to whole fixed bacterial cells. Probes quenched upon hybridization to a guanine-rich region of purified RNA in solution were not quenched upon FISH. Among other factors the high protein concentration within cells may prevent quenching of probe fluorescence in situ.