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ArticleeLife2019

A systematically-revised ribosome profiling method for bacteria reveals pauses at single-codon resolution.

Fuad Mohammad, Rachel Green, Allen R Buskirk

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 139 papers.

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139citing papers in PubMed
11.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

139 citing papers in PubMed, 255 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fuad MohammadDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.
Rachel GreenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9337-2003
Allen R BuskirkDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2720-6896
Johns Hopkins University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

BIOCHEMISTRY, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PROGRAMT32GM007445 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GREEN, RACHEL · 1985 to 2021
$24.1M
Interactions Regulating Translation and Protein Biogenesis in VivoU54GM105816 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI BUSKIRK, ALLEN ROWDON, CLARK, PATRICIA LOUISE · 2013 to 2017
$3.7M
The Mechanism of Pausing and Restarting Translation in BacteriaR01GM110113 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BUSKIRK, ALLEN ROWDON · 2014 to 2017
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM105816NIGMS NIH HHS GM110113NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM110113NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007445NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM105816
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In eukaryotes, ribosome profiling provides insight into the mechanism of protein synthesis at the codon level. In bacteria, however, the method has been more problematic and no consensus has emerged for how to best prepare profiling samples. Here, we identify the sources of these problems and describe new solutions for arresting translation and harvesting cells in order to overcome them. These improvements remove confounding artifacts and improve the resolution to allow analyses of ribosome behavior at the codon level. With a clearer view of the translational landscape in vivo, we observe that filtering cultures leads to translational pauses at serine and glycine codons through the reduction of tRNA aminoacylation levels. This observation illustrates how bacterial ribosome profiling studies can yield insight into the mechanism of protein synthesis at the codon level and how these mechanisms are regulated in response to changes in the physiology of the cell.

Indexed as

CodonEscherichia coliGlycineProtein BiosynthesisRibosomesRNA, MessengerSerineTransfer RNA AminoacylationCodonGlycineRNA, MessengerSerinebacteriabiochemistrychemical biologychromosomesE. coligene expressionpausingribosome profilingserine

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PMID30724162
PMCPMC6377232
OpenAlexW2914948079

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