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Nature Cell Biology 1, E31 - E33 (1999)
doi:10.1038/10024
TAPping into transport
Caterina Strambio de Castillia1 & Michael P. Rout1
- Caterina Strambio de Castillia and Michael P. Rout are at the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, Box 213, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Correspondence to: Michael P. Rout1 e-mail: rout@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Abstract
Studies of viral RNA nuclear export promise to help elucidate the mechanisms used by the cell to transport its own RNA to the cytoplasm. TAP has been implicated in the export of unspliced retroviral RNA transcripts and may be a new RNA-export factor.
