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All clear for ribosome landing

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The discovery of a dramatic structural rearrangement that is stabilized by an RNA scaffold helps to explain how nascent proteins are delivered for export from the cell cytoplasm. See Letter p.271

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Figure 1: Handover of translating ribosomes.

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  1. Harris D. Bernstein is in the Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0538, USA.,

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