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Polysomal pooly(A)+ histone mRNAs

Posted by Linsang on 10 Oct 2013 at 07:38 GMT

The authors write:

"... we also performed polyribosome purification in cell cycle arrested cells and demonstrated for the first time that polyA+ transcripts are indeed polyribosomal and therefore likely give rise to functional histone proteins."

This result is in agreement with ref 4 in the paper, from 1989, which showed that a poly(A)+ H1 mRNA is polysomal.

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