Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy have now made it possible to measure the translation dynamics of individual RNA in living cells and in multiple colors. Here we describe a protocol that exploits these recent advances to simultaneously image the translation of two open reading frames encoded on a single reporter RNA yet frameshifted with respect to each other. This enables precise measurements of frameshifting dynamics and efficiency from specific frameshift stimulatory sequences, all with single-RNA precision.

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Imaging and Quantifying Ribosomal Frameshifting Dynamics with Single-RNA Precision in Live Cells

  • Kenneth R. Lyon,
  • Tatsuya Morisaki,
  • Timothy J. Stasevich

摘要

Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy have now made it possible to measure the translation dynamics of individual RNA in living cells and in multiple colors. Here we describe a protocol that exploits these recent advances to simultaneously image the translation of two open reading frames encoded on a single reporter RNA yet frameshifted with respect to each other. This enables precise measurements of frameshifting dynamics and efficiency from specific frameshift stimulatory sequences, all with single-RNA precision.