Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 1, 2017, 1:15 p.m.
...contains 24 copies of SunTag, a synthetic scaffold that can recruit GFP fused to the SunTag-specific antibody...Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When the ribosome ...Using translation inhibitors cycloheximide and puromycin, Halstead et al. verified that translation is ...indicating translational repression. During later stages, single RFP-labeled osk and Oskar protein were ...scFv. Each time the reporter is translated, the SunTag sites on the nascent polypeptide recruit scFV-GFP...translationally silent.
Both of these methods increase our understanding of translation dynamics, but...but they come with a few caveats. In both cases, creating a reporter mRNA requires inserting multiple hairpin...