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Nature Cell Biology 6, 285 - 287 (2004)
doi:10.1038/ncb0404-285

A helicase that gets Oskar's message across

Ilan Davis1

  1. Ilan Davis is in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK.
    e-mail: ilan.davis@ed.ac.uk

Messenger RNA localization is a common way of targeting proteins to their site of function. This process is dependent on RNA signals that are interpreted by trans-acting factors. A putative RNA helicase and translational initiation factor is now shown to form a conserved complex, important for localization of oskar mRNA in Drosophila melanogaster and RNA surveillance in human cells.

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