The riboskeleton: the "brain" of the cell?
The complexity of the RNA world has surprised biologists many times in recent years and has led, among other things, to a new definition of a gene. Its implications, however, may go even further than that. It is possible that the ribonucleoproteins form an information processing system which functions as the "brain" of the cell.
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Istituto di Istologia ed Embriologia Generale, Ferrara, Italy.
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012313:RNA; D012326:RNA Splicing; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D012261:Ribonucleoproteins; D012313:RNA