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The Turnover of Messenger RNA

The synthesis rate of many proteins is influenced more by how rapidly their messenger-RNA templates decay, or turn over, than by how rapidly the RNA's are synthesized. What regulates the decay?

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 260 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Turnover of Messenger RNA” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 260 No. 4 (), p. 48
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0489-48