“…Polysomes Qf eukaryotic cells can be dissociated in various ways: in vivo by incubating cells with puromycin (2,3,4), in aminoacid depleted media (5), at elevated temperature (6), under hypertonic conditions (7,8), in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide (9), in vitro by incubating polysomes with EDTA (10,11,12,13,14,15), under conditions where ribosomes run off the mRNA without reinitiation (16,17), with puromycin at high salt concentration (18,19,20). Wherever it has been tested such dissociations of polysomes have been shown to release mRNA in the form of ribonucleoprotein particles.…”