mRNAs Move on Self-Assembling Highways (VIDEO)

Center for Genomic Regulation

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In this clip, packages of one to four yellow fluorescence-labelled mRNAs with an intact localisation signal travel on microtubules assembled in a micro-chambers which is mounted onto a microscope. Blue mRNAs have mutated localisation signal which are not recognized by the transport machinery.

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S Maurer and S Baumman

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