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Isolation of Translating Ribosomes Containing Peptidyl-tRNAs for Functional and Structural Analyses
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Biology
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Isolation of Translating Ribosomes Containing Peptidyl-tRNAs for Functional and Structural Analyses
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11:19 min

February 25, 2011

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 02:59Preparation of Cell Free Extracts Depleted of RF2
  • 04:28Preparation of a DNA Template
  • 05:18Preparation of Biotin Labeled mRNA
  • 06:19Isolation of Translating Ribosomes Containing a Peptidyl-tRNA
  • 07:56Analysis of the Isolated Ribosomes Containing the Peptidyl-tRNA
  • 09:23Representative Results
  • 10:52Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

A major impediment to biochemical analyses of ribosomes containing nascent peptidyl-tRNAs has been the presence of other ribosomes in the same samples, ribosomes not involved in the translation of the specific mRNA sequence being analyzed. We developed a simple methodology to purify, exclusively, the ribosomes containing the nascent peptidyl-tRNA of interest.

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