“…Therefore, mitochondrial translation has been researched by several methods [see Apostolopoulos and Iwasaki (2022) for a summary], such as 35 S-methionine-labeling of newly synthesized nascent chains ( Chomyn, 1996 ; Sasarman and Shoubridge, 2012 ), the quantification of ribosome-associated mRNAs by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR ( Antonicka et al, 2013 ; Fung et al, 2013 ; Zhang et al, 2014 ; Pearce et al, 2017 ), ribosome profiling ( Rooijers et al, 2013 ; Iwasaki et al, 2016 ; Gao et al, 2017 ; Pearce et al, 2017 ; Morscher et al, 2018 ; Suzuki et al, 2020 ; Kashiwagi et al, 2021 ; Li et al, 2021 ; Schöller et al, 2021 ), and pulse stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture for proteomic analysis ( Imami et al, 2021 ). However, these approaches provide averaged data for thousands of cells, which are pooled for the experiments, and thus pose an analytic hurdle when assessing mitochondrial translation in each individual cell.…”