Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
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...various stimuli on global translation, but a visual technique to study translation remained elusive. Two ...easier to track translation in two different ways: by monitoring the first round of translation or by tracking...destination co- or post-translationally.
TRICK: Visualizing the first round of translation
While ribosome profiling...in the fluorescent signal: untranslated RNAs appear yellow, and translated RNAs appear red. To enable ...Using translation inhibitors cycloheximide and puromycin, Halstead et al. verified that translation is necessary...readout of relative reporter translation.
Single molecule continuous translation tracking
TRICK allows you...multiple rounds of translation from this single mRNA; you get a view of translational dynamics at the single...