Coupled transcription-and-translation in Xenopus oocyte and egg extracts

Journal of Biotechnology
Alexander A TokmakovShigeyuki Yokoyama

Abstract

Coinjection of T7 promoter-driven plasmids and T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP) into Xenopus oocytes results in robust protein synthesis, due to simultaneous gene transcription-and-translation (TnT) in the oocyte cytoplasm [Geib, S., Sandoz, G., Carlier, E., V. Cornet, Cheynet-Sauvion, V., De Waard, M., 2001. A novel Xenopus oocyte expression system based on cytoplasmic coinjection of T7-driven plasmids and purified T7-RNA polymerase. Receptors Channels 7, 331-343; Tokmakov, A.A., Matsumoto, E., Shirouzu, M., Yokoyama, S., 2006. Coupled cytoplasmic transcription-and-translation--a method of choice for heterologous gene experession in Xenopus oocytes. J. Biotechnol. 122, 5-15]. In the present study, we demonstrate that the TnT reaction of protein synthesis can be reconstituted in cell-free extracts of Xenopus oocytes and eggs. Similar to the reaction in oocytes, the effective coupling of bacteriophage T7 RNAP-mediated transcription with the eukaryotic translation machinery takes place in the Xenopus oocyte and egg extracts. However, the kinetics of protein and RNA production in the extracts are quite different from those observed in oocytes. Potent RNA synthesis in the extracts starts immediately after the addition of T7 promoter-dri...Continue Reading

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Oct 31, 2008·The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience·Rachel K Tittle, Richard I Hume
Oct 28, 2010·Genes to Cells : Devoted to Molecular & Cellular Mechanisms·Alexander A Tokmakov, Yasuo Fukami

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