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Recruiting proteins to the RNA world

Proteins that interact with RNA are now yielding to high-resolution structural analysis and these studies are going hand-in-hand with dissection of the RNA processing machinery of the spliceosome.

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Mattaj, I., Nagai, K. Recruiting proteins to the RNA world. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2, 518–522 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0795-518

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