Gatekeeping proteins to aberrant RNA—'You shall not pass'

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 08:02 in Biology & Nature

They found that RNA-binding proteins are regulated such that gateway proteins can recognize and block aberrant strands of genetic code from exiting the nucleus. Unused messenger RNA (mRNA) strands that cannot exit the nucleus would eventually disintegrate.

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