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Gimme phospho-serine five! Capping enzyme guanylyltransferase recognition of the RNA polymerase II CTD
Stephen K Burley1, Nahum Sonenberg
1Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. sburley@lilly.com
Abstract:
In this issue of Molecular Cell, two papers on the structure of murine capping enzyme guanylyltransferase (Ghosh et al., 2011) and yeast studies of the recognition of the RNA polymerase II CTD (Schwer and Shuman, 2011) describe the mechanism of recruitment of the capping apparatus to nascent pre-mRNAs.
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