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Structural biology: RNA switches function

Steve Reichow1 & Gabriele Varani1

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Proteins are not the only regulators of metabolite synthesis — some RNA molecules do it too. These RNAs lack chemical diversity, so how do we explain the variety of their respective substrates?

The traditional view of RNA as a passive messenger in the transfer of genetic information has long been abandoned. Yet every few years we are still surprised by the discovery of another function that RNA performs.

  1. Steve Reichow and Gabriele Varani are in the Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USA.
    Email: varani@chem.washington.edu

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