A new study shows that cellular mRNAs can be organized and exported from the nucleus as functionally related groups by RNA-binding proteins, possibly corresponding to specific gene-expression networks activated by transcription factors. The combinatorial assortment of mRNAs as functional subsets has the potential to generate a variety of complex phenotypes from a modest number of genes.
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Keene, J. Organizing mRNA export. Nat Genet 33, 111–112 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0203-111
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