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More than one way to skin a cat: translational autoregulation by ribosomal protein S15

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Some ribosomal proteins recognize both ribosomal RNA and their own messenger RNA similarly. Although this phenomenon is widely conserved among prokaryotes for ribosomal protein S15, the precise manner in which the protein recognizes its own mRNA varies significantly from species to species.

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Figure 1: Secondary structure of the four S15 RNA binding sites.

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