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A surprising function for SRP RNA?

The crystal structure of the universal ribonucleoprotein core of the signal recognition particle suggests that the RNA moiety has been evolutionarily conserved because it plays an important role in signal sequence recognition.

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Figure 1: The SRP targeting cycle.
Figure 2: The most conserved region of SRP.
Figure 3: Space-filling models of the SRP ribonucleoprotein core.

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