TY  - JOUR
TI  - Protein Synthesis Rate Assessment by Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP)
AU  - Kourtis, Nikos  
AU  - Tavernarakis, Nektarios  
VL  - 7
IS  - 5
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/03/05
SP  - e2156
C1  - Bio-protocol 2017;7:e2156
DO  - 10.21769/BioProtoc.2156
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.2156
AB  - Currently available biochemical methods cannot be applied to monitor protein synthesis in specific cells or tissues, in live specimens. Here, we describe a non-invasive method for monitoring protein synthesis in single cells or tissues with intrinsically different translation rates, in live Caenorhabditis elegans animals.
KW  - Caenorhabditis elegans
KW  - FRAP
KW  - Messenger RNA
KW  - Protein synthesis
KW  - Protein translation
JF  - Bio-protocol
SN  - 2331-8325
PB  - Bio-protocol LLC.
BIO101  - False