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- Title
RNA granules: post-transcriptional and epigenetic modulators of gene expression.
- Authors
Anderson, Paul; Kedersha, Nancy
- Abstract
The composition of cytoplasmic messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs) is determined by their nuclear and cytoplasmic histories and reflects past functions and future fates. The protein components of selected mRNP complexes promote their assembly into microscopically visible cytoplasmic RNA granules, including stress granules, processing bodies and germ cell (or polar) granules. We propose that RNA granules can be both a cause and a consequence of altered mRNA translation, decay or editing. In this capacity, RNA granules serve as key modulators of post-transcriptional and epigenetic gene expression.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 6, p430
- ISSN
1471-0080
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrm2694