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Isolation of Translating Ribosomes Containing Peptidyl-tRNAs for Functional and Structural Analyses
Published on: February 25, 2011
Tweezing apart ribosome heterogeneity
1Cardiopulmonary Institute (CPI), Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Molecular Cell
|July 2, 2026
Abstract:
In this issue of Molecular Cell, Chen et al.1 introduce Ribo-Tweezer: a modular platform for conditionally and selectively depleting proteins from mature ribosomes, enabling direct tests of their ribosome-bound roles in translation regulation.
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