CYTOPLASMIC MESSENGER-RNA-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN EUKARYOTIC GENE-EXPRESSION

Post-transcriptional mechanisms contribute in many important ways to t he overall control and regulation of gene expression, and in doing so employ a veritable army of proteins that bind a wide range of targets in messenger RNA (mRNA). The full range of these RNA-protein interacti ons is only just beginning to emerge, and much remains to be learned a bout the mechanisms underlying the rapidly increasing number of regula tory systems now being described.