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Cell type–specific mRNA purification by translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP)
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Cellular diversity and architectural complexity create barriers to understanding the function of the mammalian CNS at a molecular level. To address this problem, we have recently developed a methodology that provides the ability to profile the entire translated mRNA complement of any genetically defined cell population. This methodology, which we termed translating ribosome affinity purification, or TRAP, combines cell type-specific transgene expression with affinity purification of translating ribosomes. TRAP can be used to study the cell type-specific mRNA profiles of any genetically defined cell type, and it has been used in organisms ranging from Drosophila melanogaster to mice and human cultured cells. Unlike other methodologies that rely on microdissection, cell panning or cell sorting, the TRAP methodology bypasses the need for tissue fixation or single-cell suspensions (and the potential artifacts that these treatments introduce) and reports on mRNAs in the entire cell body. This protocol provides a step-by-step guide to implement the TRAP methodology, which takes 2 d to complete once all materials are in hand.
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An Elongin-Cullin-SOCS Box Complex Regulates Stress-Induced Serotonergic Neuromodulation
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“Worm lysis and immunoprecipitations were performed as previously described (Heiman et al., 2014).”
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“Furthermore, we performed TRAP assay to pull down GFP-L10a-associated mRNAs using anti-GFP antibody (Heiman et al., 2014) (Fig.”
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“…released from the matrix and captured RNAs are prepared for RNA sequencing or PCR. Unlike the previous two methods, RAP requires a smaller number of cells and is cell/tissue-type specific, but it requires gene editing to exogenously express tagged ribosomal component proteins (Heiman et al., 2014).”
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Erdem, M., Ozgul, İ., Dioken, D. N., Gurcuoglu, I., Ergün, S. G., Çetin-Atalay, R., Can, T., & Erson-Bensan, A. E. (2021) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-021-04007-y · Cited by 17
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“By leveraging the rapid scalability of Drosophila and the myriad genetic driver lines available, TRAP can be used to access the translatome of rare cell populations representing a small proportion of the nervous system or other tissues (Bertin et al., 2015; Huang et al., 2015; Newell et al., 2016).”
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Pathway identification through transcriptome analysis
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Self-citationCell type- and region-specific translatomes in an MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease
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Marquilly, C., Busto, G. U., Leger, B. S., Boulanger, A., Giniger, E., Walker, J. A., Fradkin, L. G., & Dura, J. (2021) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009287 · Cited by 13
“Antibodies used for immunoprecipitation were: anti-GFP (mouse, HTZ 19C8 and 19F7, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Monoclonal Antibody Facility; (Heiman et al., 2014)), anti-dAbl (rabbit, 1:500; (Song et al., 2010)).”
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Vasile, F., Dossi, E., Moulard, J., Ezan, P., Lecoin, L., Cohen‐Salmon, M., Mailly, P., Bert, M. L., Couillin, I., Bemelmans, A., et al. (2022) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001891 · Cited by 14
“Astroglial polysomal RNAs were extracted from postnatal days 10 to 50 Aldh1l1:L10a-eGFP mice hippocampi by using the Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP; [40]) followed by extraction with RNeasy Lipid tissue kit (Qiagen, USA).”
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“In contrast, a nonnegligible drawback of TRAP-seq is that the construction of stably transfected cell models expressing tags on ribosomes can be challenging [28].”
BackgroundMicroproteins: from behind the scenes to the spotlight
Jiang, M., Lou, H., & Hou, W. (2021) · Genome Instability & Disease · doi:10.1007/s42764-021-00040-3 · Cited by 12
Rahimian, R., Guruswamy, R., Boutej, H., Cordeau, P., Weng, Y. C., & Križ, J. (2024) · Molecular Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.01.004 · Cited by 13
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“TRAP RNA isolation was performed following established protocols (37, 53) with small modifications.”
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Non-conventional peptides in plants: From gene regulation to crop improvement
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“Figure 2B shows that compared with the first supernatant obtained from hippocampal homogenate (S1), the synaptogliosome fraction (P3) contains low levels of GFAP, high levels of the postsynaptic protein PSD95 and the cytosolic PAP protein Ezrin.”
BackgroundThe Cranial Neural Crest in a Multiomics Era
Chong-Morrison, V., & Sauka‐Spengler, T. (2021) · Frontiers in Physiology · doi:10.3389/fphys.2021.634440 · Cited by 11
“Isolating polysomes using recently-developed TRAP method (Heiman et al., 2014) and their associated mRNAs in the zebrafish migratory NC at 16–18 ss informed us of both known and novel NC markers forming the translatome at this developmental window (Chong, 2017).”
MethodInherently Emissive Puromycin Analogues for Live Cell Labelling
Hadidi, K., Steinbuch, K. B., Dozier, L. E., Patrick, G. N., & Tor, Y. (2023) · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · doi:10.1002/anie.202216784 · Cited by 11
Maksour, S., & Ooi, L. (2023) · Journal of Neurochemistry · doi:10.1111/jnc.15885 · Cited by 12
Regulation of the hippocampal translatome by Apoer2-ICD release
Wasser, C. R., Werthmann, G. C., Hall, E. M., Kuhbandner, K., Wong, C. H. Y., Durakoglugil, M. S., & Herz, J. (2023) · Molecular Neurodegeneration · doi:10.1186/s13024-023-00652-1 · Cited by 11
“The matrix was prepared as described in [34].”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialAge- and sex- divergent translatomic responses of the mouse retinal pigmented epithelium
Chucair‐Elliott, A. J., Ocañas, S. R., Pham, K. D., Machalinski, A. H., Plafker, S. M., Stout, M. B., Elliott, M. H., & Freeman, W. M. (2024) · Neurobiology of Aging · doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.04.012 · Cited by 11
“…(Deal and Henikoff, 2011) isolates biotin tagged nuclei, and thus cell type-specific gDNA, while Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) (Heiman et al., 2014) isolates cell-type specific EGFP + ribosome-bound RNA for genomic/epigenomic and transcriptomic/translatomic analyses,…”
BackgroundMarion‐Poll, L., Roussarie, J.-P., Taing, L., Dard-Dascot, C., Servant, N., Jaszczyszyn, Y., Jordi, E., Mulugeta, E., Hervé, D., Bourc’his, D., et al. (2022) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04269-w · Cited by 11
Self-citationZhang, Q., & Liu, L. (2024) · Cancer Letters · doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216691 · Cited by 10
Lu, W.-H., Chang, T.-T., Chang, Y., Liu, Y.-H., Lin, C.-H., Suen, C., Hwang, M., & Huang, Y. (2024) · Journal of Biomedical Science · doi:10.1186/s12929-024-01061-2 · Cited by 11
“From 2 independent RIP experiments, 3,309 transcripts with raw signal > 1,000 were enriched more used the TRAP method [56] to isolate ribosome-associ-ated transcripts (i.e., translatome) in axons and somas of auditory cortical TE3 neurons before and after cued fear conditioning [20].”
MethodChongtham, A., Sharma, A., Nath, B., Murtha, K., Gorbachev, K., Ramakrishnan, A., Schmidt, E. F., Shen, L., & Pereira, A. C. (2024) · Experimental Neurology · doi:10.1016/j.expneurol.2024.114967 · Cited by 10
Mansuri, M. S., Peng, G., Wilson, R. S., Lam, T. T., Zhao, H., Williams, K. R., & Nairn, A. C. (2020) · Proteomes · doi:10.3390/proteomes8040027 · Cited by 9
“These include Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) lines that were designed to profile mRNA translation in defined cell types [21,22] and that allow isolation of nuclei from specific cell types using FANS [18].”
MethodGaspari, S., Quenneville, S., Sánchez-Archidona, A. R., Thorens, B., & Croizier, S. (2022) · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · doi:10.1002/cne.25312 · Cited by 10
sncRiboTag-Seq: Cell-type-specific RiboTag-Seq for cells in low abundance in mouse brain tissue
Gao, Y., & Zhao, X. (2020) · STAR Protocols · doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100231 · Cited by 11
Imai, H., Utsumi, D., Torihara, H., Takahashi, K., Kuroyanagi, H., & Yamashita, A. (2023) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkad545 · Cited by 9
Nousch, M. (2020) · G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · doi:10.1534/g3.120.401644 · Cited by 9
Lu, S., Portela, I. D. J., Martino, N., Ramos, R. B., Salinero, A. E., Smith, R. M., Zuloaga, K. L., & Adam, A. P. (2024) · Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.07.041 · Cited by 8
Jetsonen, E., Didio, G., Suleymanova, I., Teino, I., Ċastrén, E., & Umemori, J. (2025) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-025-02219-8 · Cited by 11
McLachlan, I. G., & Flavell, S. W. (2019) · BIO-PROTOCOL · doi:10.21769/bioprotoc.3328 · Cited by 9
“Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP), or ribotagging, is a method to purify polysomal RNA from genetically-defined cell types (Heiman et al., 2008; Sanz et al., 2009; Heiman et al., 2014).”
MethodGene Expression at the Tripartite Synapse: Bridging the Gap Between Neurons and Astrocytes
Imrie, G., Gray, M. B., Raghuraman, V., & Farhy-Tselnicker, I. (2024) · Advances in neurobiology · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64839-7_5 · Cited by 8
Burger, L. L., Wagenmaker, E. R., Phumsatitpong, C., Olson, D. P., & Moenter, S. M. (2020) · Endocrinology · doi:10.1210/endocr/bqaa166 · Cited by 10
Recognition memory-induced gene expression in the perirhinal cortex: A transcriptomic analysis
Scott, H., Rogers, M. F., Scott, H. L., Campbell, C., Warburton, E. C., & Uney, J. B. (2017) · Behavioural Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2017.04.007 · Cited by 9
“New more selective techniques, such as translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP) [61], could be used to refine which transcripts are analysed, firstly by examining only those transcripts that at that instant are being translated, and secondly by targeting specific cell types within a tissue.”
Glial immune-related pathways as mediators of closed head TBI effects on behavior in DrosophilaPreprint
van Alphen, B., Stewart, S., Iwanaszko, M., Xu, F., Bang, E., Rozenfeld, S., Ramakrishnan, A., Itoh, T. Q., Braun, R., & Allada, R. (2018) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/422535 · Cited by 9
Ritter, A. J., Draper, J. M., Vollmers, C., & Sanford, J. R. (2024) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.279170.124 · Cited by 9
“Frac-seq, which our proposed method builds on, isolates actively translating ribosomes and assesses translation efficiency by stratifying transcripts by the number of ribosomes with which they are associated (Sterne-Weiler et al. 2013).”
Rules and impacts of nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay in the degradation of long noncoding RNAs
Singh, A. K. (2024) · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA · doi:10.1002/wrna.1853 · Cited by 8
High-throughput translational profiling with riboPLATE-seq
Metz, J. B., Hornstein, N. J., Sharma, S. D., Worley, J., Gonzalez, C., & Sims, P. A. (2022) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-022-09638-3 · Cited by 8
Molecular signatures of regional vulnerability to tauopathy in excitatory cortical neurons
Broekaart, D. W. M., Sharma, A., Ramakrishnan, A., Chongtham, A., Günther, D. M., Subramaniyan, S., Wang, M., Patel, V., Zhang, B., Grinberg, L. T., et al. (2025) · Acta Neuropathologica · doi:10.1007/s00401-025-02879-2 · Cited by 7
“…we used the viral Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (vTRAP) methodology, which allows the generation of regional and cell type-specific transcriptome data from polysomal RNA [37, 82] of vulnerable and resistant cell types in brain regions of interest in the PS19 (P301S) mouse model.”
Next generation sequencing technologies to address aberrant mRNA translation in cancer
Román, Á., Benitez, D. A., Díaz-Pizarro, A., Pino, N. D. V.-D., Olivera-Gómez, M., Cumplido-Laso, G., Carvajal-González, J. M., & Mulero‐Navarro, S. (2024) · NAR Cancer · doi:10.1093/narcan/zcae024 · Cited by 8
“A notable advantage of this technique lies in the utilization of specific promoters that control the expression of the tagged gene, enabling a cell type-specific measure of translation in tissues or complex co-cultures ( 34–36 ).”
BackgroundChanges in nucleus accumbens core translatome accompanying incubation of cocaine craving
Kawa, A. B., Hashimoto, J. G., Beutler, M. M., Guizzetti, M., & Wolf, M. E. (2025) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-025-02112-4 · Cited by 7
Mega-enhancers compartmentalize transcriptionally active long genes in the brain
Zhao, Z., Parra, O. A. P., Fujita, S.-I., Musella, F., Alvarado, N. J. S., Alber, F., Yang, Y., & Yamada, T. (2026) · Nature Cell Biology · doi:10.1038/s41556-026-02043-2 · Cited by 7
“TRAP from synchronously developing granule neurons (sync-TRAP) 31,73,74 was performed by electroporating the cerebellum of P6 mouse pups with the pCAG–Rpl10a–GFP and pCAG–mCherry plasmids together with a vector encoding U6-sgRNA targeting the indicated gene or a control sequence at day 4, 8 or 28…”
Discovery of the hidden coding information in cancers: Mechanisms and biological functions
Zhou, X., Wu, X.-H., Lai, K., Zhou, R.-Y., Chen, Z., Yang, Z.-G., & Gao, X.-W. (2022) · International Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1002/ijc.34360 · Cited by 8
“However, TRAP-Seq requires more effort to generate transgenic samples.(62) The advantages and disadvantages were summarized in Table 1.”
BackgroundDecoding the molecular crosstalk between grafted stem cells and the stroke-injured brain
Azevedo-Pereira, R. L., Manley, N. C., Dong, C., Zhang, Y., Lee, A. G., Zatulovskaia, Y. A., Gupta, V., Vu, J. T., Han, S. S., Berry, J. E., et al. (2023) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112353 · Cited by 7
Experience-dependent translational state defined by cell type-specific ribosome profilingPreprint
Eacker, S. M., Crawford, K., Brichta, L., Rießland, M., Ingolia, N. T., Greengard, P., Dawson, T. M., & Dawson, V. L. (2017) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/169425 · Cited by 7
“TRAP was performed as previously described using all the suppliers of reagents specified in the previous description (Kulicke et al. 2014).”
MethodSelf-citationInjury distance limits the transcriptional response to spinal injuryPreprint
Wang, Z., Kumaran, M., Batsel, E., Testor-Cabrera, S., Beine, Z., Ribelles, A. A., Tsoulfas, P., Venkatesh, I., & Blackmore, M. G. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.05.27.596075 · Cited by 7
“Technical differences between the studies might contribute to the discrepancy, such as the ten-day post-injury timepoint in the previous study compared to seven days in our study and, crucially, the use of a TRAP approach 50 versus our single-nuclei analysis centered approach.”
MethodXiao, T., He, D., Liu, D., Jia, S., Chen, Q., Silverman, D., Maitra, N., Huang, A. Y., Pezacki, A. T., Nguyen, T. T., et al. (2025) · Molecular Cell · doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2025.08.024 · Cited by 6
Activity-dependent protein synthesis in neurons requires microglial-metabolic coupling
Adler, D. I., Martín‐Ávila, A., Cheng, E., Oliveira, M. M., Zhang, M., Evans, H. T., Yuan, D., Sam, R., Zhang, N., Sellés, M. C., et al. (2026) · Cell Metabolism · doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2026.05.006 · Cited by 7
Guerri, L., Dobbs, L. K., Silva, D. A. D. S. E., Meyers, A., Ge, A., Lecaj, L., Djakuduel, C., Islek, D., Hipolito, D., Badillo-Martinez, A., et al. (2022) · Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science · doi:10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.08.010 · Cited by 9
“Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) TRAP isolation of ribosome-bound mRNA from iMSNs in mouse was performed as described (39) with the following differences: Matrix per whole mouse striatum: 150μl Streptavidin MyOne T1 Dynabeads (Invitrogen, #65601) and 60μl Biotinylated protein L recombinant purified (T…”
MethodYen, A., Mateusiak, C., Sarafinovska, S., Gachechiladze, M. A., Guo, J., Chen, X., Moudgil, A., Cammack, A. J., Hoisington‐Lopez, J., Crosby, M., et al. (2023) · Current Protocols · doi:10.1002/cpz1.883 · Cited by 5
Lister, K. C., Wong, C., Uttam, S., Parisien, M., Stecum, P., Brown, N., Cai, W., Ho-Tieng, D., Hooshmandi, M., Gu, N., et al. (2026) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.100451.3 · Cited by 6
Metadata
- Authors
- Heiman, M., Kulicke, R., Fenster, R. J., Greengard, P., & Heintz, N.
- Affiliations
- Broad Institute (US)
- Rockefeller University (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Heiman, Myriam
- Venue
- Nature Protocols
- Published
- 2014-05-08
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1282-1291
- ISSN
- 1750-2799 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-2189
- PMC
- PMC4102313
- OpenAlex
- W1993981485
- Cited by
- 498
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 48 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 9.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Nature Protocols (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PMC
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH090963, MH090963)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007739)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Keywords
- translating ribosome affinity purification, central nervous system, cell type-specific gene expression
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Polyribosomes, Ribosomes, RNA, Messenger, Gene Expression Profiling, Mice, Single-Cell Analysis
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