Visualization of single endogenous polysomes reveals the dynamics of translation in live human cells

Pichon et al. describe a method to visualize translation of single endogenous mRNPs in live cells and provide evidence for specialized translation factories, as well as measurements of translation elongation rate, ribosome loading, and movements of single polysomes.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Cell Biology

• Publication date

  2016-09-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1083/jcb.201605024PMID 27597760PMCID 5021097
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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