Transient kinetics, fluorescence, and FRET in studies of initiation and translation in bacteria / Pohl Milon [and others] -- Binding of mRNA to the bacterial translation initiation complex / Sean M. Studer and Simpson Joseph -- Real-time dynamics of ribosome-ligand interaction by time-resolved chemical probing methods / Attilio Fabbretti [and others] -- Overexpression and purification of mammalian mitochondrial translational initiation factor 2 and initiation factor 3 / Domenick G. Grasso [and others] -- In vitro studies of archaeal translational initiation / Dario Benelli and Paola Londei -- Reconstitution of yeast translation initiation / Michael G. Acker [and others] -- Assembly and analysis of eukaryotic translation initiation complexes / Andrey V. Pisarev -- Reconstitution of mammalian 48S ribosomal translation initiation complex / Romit Majumdar, Jayanta Chaudhuri, and Umadas Maitra -- Biophysical approach to studies of Cap-elF4E interaction by synthetic cap analogs / Anna Niedzwiecka [and others] -- Biophysical studies of the translation initiation pathway with immobilized mRNA analogs / John E. G. McCarthy, Steven Marsden, and Tobias von der Haar -- Protection-based assays to measure aminoacyl-tRNA binding to translation initiation factors / Yves Mechulam [and others] -- NMR methods for studying protein-protein interactions involved in translation initiation / Assen Marintchev, Dominique Frueh, and Gerhard Wagner -- Structural methods for studying IRES function / Jeffrey S. Kieft [and others] -- Biophysical and biochemical investigations of dsRNA-activated kinase PKR / Sean A. McKenna [and others] -- Expression and purification of recombinant wheat translation initiation factors elF₁, elF₁A, elF₄A, elF₄B, elF₄F, elF(ISO)₄F, and elF₅ / Laura K. Mayberry [and others] -- In Vitro reconstitution and biochemical characterization of translation initiation by internal ribosomal entry / Victoria G. Kolupaeva [and others].