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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 363-375 (May 2005) | doi:10.1038/nrm1643
Focus on: RNA
Article series: Developmental Cell Biology
Moving messages: the intracellular localization of mRNAs
Daniel St Johnston1 About the author
Abstract
mRNA localization is a common mechanism for targeting proteins to regions of the cell where they are required. It has an essential role in localizing cytoplasmic determinants, controlling the direction of protein secretion and allowing the local control of protein synthesis in neurons. New methods for in vivo labelling have revealed that several mRNAs are transported by motor proteins, but how most mRNAs are coupled to these proteins remains obscure.
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Author affiliations
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The Gurdon Institute and The Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.
Email: ds139@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
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