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Isolation of Ribosome Bound Nascent Polypeptides in vitro to Identify Translational Pause Sites Along mRNA
Published on: July 6, 2012
Overlapping stage-specific sets of numerous small collagenous polypeptides are translated in vitro from
Abstract:
Caenorhabditis elegans synthesizes four morphologically distinct types of collagenous cuticles during its lifetime. We show that in RNA populations isolated early or late during the L4-to-adult molt, chick and nematode collagen DNAs hybridize strongly to RNAs of about 1.2 kb. Different but overlapping classes of correspondingly small collagenous polypeptides (310-460 residues in length) are translated in vitro from these two populations and from RNA isolated at the L2-to-dauer molt. Over 60 different collagenous translation products are identified. These collagenous polypeptides are smaller than mature cuticle collagens and smaller than most vertebrate collagens. They probably represent cuticle collagen precursors and the primary products of the cuticle collagen genes of C. elegans.
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