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Silenced RNA on the move

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Proteins are often produced at their site of action, but the RNAs from which they are made must be kept inactive until they reach the right spot. It seems this ‘silencing’ of RNA is linked to its transport around the cell.

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Figure 1: A migrating fibroblast cell.

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Figure 2: Regulation of localized β-actin mRNA translation in a polarized neural cell.

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