Nab2, a three-cornered hat to bind a poly(A) tail.
In this issue of Structure, Brockman and co-workers reveal the structure and interactions of Nab2 with polyadenosine RNA, which marks the completion of 3' end processing and initiates the assembly of mRNA and carrier proteins for export through the nuclear pore complex.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. brianlee@siu.edu
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