Journal article
In vitro and tissue culture methods for analysis of translation initiation on the endoplasmic reticulum
Methods in enzymology, Vol.431, pp.47-60
2007
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)31004-5
PMID: 17923230
Abstract
For mRNAs encoding secretory and integral membrane proteins, translation initiation is thought to begin a process of mRNA localization where mRNA/ribosome/nascent chain complexes (RNCs) are trafficked from the cytosol compartment to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). At the ER membrane, RNCs bind to a protein-conducting channel via the large ribosomal subunit and protein translocation ensues through coupling of the ribosomal nascent protein exit site with the protein-conducting channel. At the termination of translation, ribosomal subunits are thought to dissociate from the ER to return to a common cytoplasmic pool and participate in additional cycles of initiation, translation, targeting, termination, and ER membrane release. Experimental evidence has demonstrated that ER-membrane ribosomes are capable of de novo initiation, that mRNA partitioning to the ER membrane does not, per se, require translation of an encoded signal sequence, and that ribosomal subunit dissociation from the ER membrane is not obligatorily coupled to protein synthesis termination. These findings suggest that the cycle of protein synthesis-initiation, elongation, and termination-can occur on the two-dimensional plane of the ER membrane and challenge current views on the subcellular restriction of translation initiation to the cytosol, the role of the ribosome cycle in partitioning mRNA between the cytosol and ER, and the in vivo basis for termination-induced ribosomal subunit dissociation. In the following chapter, we provide detailed experimental methods to study protein synthesis initiation on the ER membrane.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- In vitro and tissue culture methods for analysis of translation initiation on the endoplasmic reticulum
- Creators
- Samuel B Stephens - Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USAChristopher V Nicchitta
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Methods in enzymology, Vol.431, pp.47-60
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)31004-5
- PMID
- 17923230
- ISSN
- 0076-6879
- eISSN
- 1557-7988
- Grant note
- GM077382 / NIGMS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2007
- Academic Unit
- Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094400402771
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