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. 2021 Sep;18(9):1068-1074.
doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01250-z. Epub 2021 Sep 3.

Nascent Ribo-Seq measures ribosomal loading time and reveals kinetic impact on ribosome density

Johanna Schott  1   2 , Sonja Reitter  3   4 , Doris Lindner  3   4 , Jan Grosser  3   4 , Marius Bruer  3   4 , Anjana Shenoy  5 , Tamar Geiger  5 , Arthur Mathes  6   7 , Gergana Dobreva  6   7 , Georg Stoecklin  3   4
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Nascent Ribo-Seq measures ribosomal loading time and reveals kinetic impact on ribosome density

Johanna Schott et al. Nat Methods. 2021 Sep.

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Abstract

In general, mRNAs are assumed to be loaded with ribosomes instantly upon entry into the cytoplasm. To measure ribosome density (RD) on nascent mRNA, we developed nascent Ribo-Seq by combining Ribo-Seq with progressive 4-thiouridine labeling. In mouse macrophages, we determined experimentally the lag between the appearance of nascent mRNA and its association with ribosomes, which was calculated to be 20-22 min for bulk mRNA. In mouse embryonic stem cells, nRibo-Seq revealed an even stronger lag of 35-38 min in ribosome loading. After stimulation of macrophages with lipopolysaccharide, the lag between cytoplasmic and translated mRNA leads to uncoupling between input and ribosome-protected fragments, which gives rise to distorted RD measurements under conditions where mRNA amounts are far from steady-state expression. As a result, we demonstrate that transcriptional changes affect RD in a passive way.

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