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Nature Cell Biology 1, E31–E33 (1 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/10024

TAPping into transport

Caterina Strambio de Castillia & Michael P. Rout

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.