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The earliest steps of animal development depend upon posttranscriptional events that drive the embryonic cell cycle and guide cell fate decisions. The analysis of post-transcriptional regulatory events has relied upon the use of chimeric reporter mRNAs that encode firefly luciferase fused to potential regulatory sequences. A new and more sensitive luciferase developed recently called NanoLuc has the potential to improve reporter studies and provide new insights into the regulation of embryonic processes. Here I describe how to create and analyze reporter mRNAs encoding NanoLuc luciferase using extracts from microinjected Xenopus embryos.
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