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ArticleNature protocols2021

Monitoring mammalian mitochondrial translation with MitoRiboSeq.

Sophia Hsin-Jung Li, Michel Nofal, Lance R Parsons, Joshua D Rabinowitz, Zemer Gitai

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Article in Nature protocols, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sophia Hsin-Jung Li *Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Michel Nofal *Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Lance R ParsonsLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8521-714X
Joshua D RabinowitzLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. rabinowitz@princeton.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1247-4727
Zemer GitaiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. zgitai@princeton.edu.
Princeton University · US

Funding

Tumor cell metabolism in actionR01CA163591 · NCI · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI JOSHUA D RABINOWITZ, Eileen P. White · 2012 to 2026
$7.0M
Metabolism in Action: Quantitative Fluxes in MammalsDP1DK113643 · NIDDK · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI RABINOWITZ, JOSHUA D · 2016 to 2020
$5.7M
Mechano-microbiology: how physical forces control bacterial-host interactionsDP1AI124669 · NIAID · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GITAI, ZEMER · 2015 to 2019
$4.0M
EIF | Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) SU2CAACR-DT-20-16NCI NIH HHS R01 CA163591NIAID NIH HHS DP1 AI124669NIDDK NIH HHS DP1 DK113643U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) DP1AI124669U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) DP1DK113643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several essential components of the electron transport chain, the major producer of ATP in mammalian cells, are encoded in the mitochondrial genome. These 13 proteins are translated within mitochondria by 'mitoribosomes'. Defective mitochondrial translation underlies multiple inborn errors of metabolism and has been implicated in pathologies such as aging, metabolic syndrome and cancer. Here, we provide a detailed ribosome profiling protocol optimized to interrogate mitochondrial translation in mammalian cells (MitoRiboSeq), wherein mitoribosome footprints are generated with micrococcal nuclease and mitoribosomes are separated from cytosolic ribosomes and other RNAs by ultracentrifugation in a single straightforward step. We highlight critical steps during library preparation and provide a step-by-step guide to data analysis accompanied by open-source bioinformatic code. Our method outputs mitoribosome footprints at single-codon resolution. Codons with high footprint densities are sites of mitoribosome stalling. We recently applied this approach to demonstrate that defects in mitochondrial serine catabolism or in mitochondrial tRNA methylation cause stalling of mitoribosomes at specific codons. Our method can be applied to study basic mitochondrial biology or to characterize abnormalities in mitochondrial translation in patients with mitochondrial disorders.

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Gene Expression ProfilingProtein BiosynthesisHCT116 CellsHumansMitochondrial RibosomesSequence Analysis

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PMID33953394
PMCPMC8610098
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