Li Ben B, Qian Changli, Roberts Thomas M, Zhao Jean J
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2019 Jan;125(1):e71. doi: 10.1002/cpmb.71. Epub 2018 Oct 22.
This unit describes a reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR)-based method for gene-targeted measurement of RNA translation levels. The method includes washing and lysing cells with a buffer containing cycloheximide to enrich ribosomal accumulation at translation initiation sites (TIS), followed by enzymatic treatment to generate ribosomal footprints, reverse transcription targeted towards TIS of specific transcripts of interest to generate complementary DNA (cDNA), and qPCR to measure the abundance of these footprints. This method enables time- and cost-effective assessment of changes in translation levels across focused panels of genes and across numerous samples. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
本单元介绍了一种基于逆转录定量PCR(RT-qPCR)的方法,用于基因靶向测量RNA翻译水平。该方法包括用含有环己酰亚胺的缓冲液洗涤和裂解细胞,以富集翻译起始位点(TIS)处的核糖体积累,随后进行酶处理以产生核糖体足迹,针对感兴趣的特定转录本的TIS进行逆转录以生成互补DNA(cDNA),并通过qPCR测量这些足迹的丰度。该方法能够在时间和成本效益方面评估跨聚焦基因面板和众多样本的翻译水平变化。© 2018约翰威立国际出版公司。