Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 1, 2017, 1:15 p.m.
...physiology.
Ribosome profiling
Ribosome profiling, a biochemical method developed in 2009, takes a “snapshot” ...Recent work has adapted this technique to monitor local translation and determine if proteins are targeted...translation
While ribosome profiling co-opts the physical location of the ribosome, TRICK (Translating RNA... the reporter. Because it contains a nuclear localization signal, NLS-PCP-GFP then returns to the nucleus...recruit scFV-GFP, generating green puncta that colocalize with the red reporter mRNA. Yan et al. used harringtonine...inhibitor that stalls ribosomes after initiation, to calculate a ribosome translocation rate of ~3.5 codons/second...studying translation in various cell types and physiological states.
References
1. Ingolia, Nicholas T.,...