title: RNP export by nuclear envelope budding.
abstract: Nuclear export of mRNAs is thought to occur exclusively through nuclear pore complexes. In this issue of Cell, Speese et al. identify an alternate pathway for mRNA export in muscle cells where ribonucleoprotein complexes involved in forming neuromuscular junctions transit the nuclear envelope by fusing with and budding through the nuclear membrane.
authors.affiliation: Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Emily M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Hatch
authors.forename: Martin W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Hetzer