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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Enzymol. 2012;511:29–63. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396546-2.00002-4

Figure 2.1.

Figure 2.1

Model RNA substrates for use with DEAD-box proteins. Sequences illustrate important RNA substrate design principles. “unwinding substrate” has a 5′-fluorescent tag (“F”), such as fluorescein. The triangle indicates a break in the sugar-phosphate backbone, such that the labeled strand is displaced with 8 bp unwinding. 5′-fluorescent tagged dsRNA substrate(s) can be used for binding without strand displacement.