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Direction of in vivo Degradation of a Messenger RNA

A Corrigendum to this article was published on 01 August 1968

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Degradation begins at the 3′ end of a trp, mRNA molecule and progresses sequentially to the 5′ end.

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BAKER, R., YANOFSKY, C. Direction of in vivo Degradation of a Messenger RNA. Nature 219, 26–29 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219026a0

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