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1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Developmental Cell
|December 5, 2018
Abstract:
Many human genes generate mRNAs with alternative 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs), which can modulate protein function. In a recent Cell paper, Ma and Mayr (2018) unveil a major membraneless organelle, termed the TIS granule-endoplasmic reticulum (TIGER), which enables specific 3' UTRs to encipher protein localization.
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