Puromycin reactivity does not accurately localize translation at the subcellular level
S. U. Enam, B. Zinshteyn, D. H. Goldman, M. Cassani, N. M. Livingston, G. Seydoux, R. Green
The paper shows that puromycin-labeled peptides can diffuse away from ribosomes even with elongation inhibitors, leading to misleading subcellular localization of translation.
bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2020Biochemistry