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An Easy Method for Plant Polysome Profiling
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Biology
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JoVE Journal Biology
An Easy Method for Plant Polysome Profiling
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11:09 min

August 28, 2016

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Chapters

  • 00:00Title
  • 01:34Preparation of Sucrose Gradient
  • 02:51Preparation of Cytosolic Extracts
  • 04:09Polysome Profiling
  • 07:07RNA Extraction
  • 09:17Results
  • 10:25Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

This protocol describes an easy method to extract and fractionate transcripts from plant tissues on the basis of the number of bound ribosomes. It allows a global estimate of translation activity and the determination of the translational status of specific mRNAs.

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