A poly(A) tail-responsive in vitro system for cap- or IRES-driven translation from HeLa cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

A poly(A) tail-responsive in vitro system for cap- or IRES-driven translation from HeLa cells

Christian Thoma et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2004.

Abstract

In cells, the poly(A) tail stimulates translation from messenger RNAs bearing a cap structure or viral IRES elements. This 3' end-mediated stimulation of translation is not reflected in commonly used commercial cell-free translation systems prepared from rabbit reticulocytes or wheat germ. We describe a simple procedure to generate poly(A) tail-responsive translation extracts from HeLa cells. We suggest that this procedure should be adaptable to many animal cell lines.

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