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Rap and chirp about X inactivation

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Two new techniques identify proteins that directly interact with a non-protein-coding RNA called Xist to mediate inactivation of one X chromosome in female mammals. See Letter p.232

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Figure 1: Capturing RNA–protein complexes.

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  1. Anna Roth and Sven Diederichs are in the RNA Biology and Cancer Division, German Cancer Research Center, and at the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,

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Roth, A., Diederichs, S. Rap and chirp about X inactivation. Nature 521, 170–171 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/521170a

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