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Meiosis: MeiRNA hits the spot
1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1 D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
Current Biology : CB
|February 18, 1999
Abstract:
The protein Mei2 performs at least two functions required in fission yeast for the switch from mitotic to meiotic cell cycles. One of these functions also requires meiRNA. It appears that meiRNA targets Mei2 to the nucleus, where it can promote the first meiotic division.