Everything old is new again: (linc)RNAs make proteins!
Long non-coding RNAs have become the focus of considerable interest over the past few years. Intriguing novel functions have been reported for lincRNAs. Three recent papers identify lincRNAs that work in a more conventional way-encoding protein-in each case a small polypeptide with an interesting biological activity (Magny et al, 2013; Pauli et al, 2014), (Bazzini et al, 2014).
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore.
Stephen M
SM
Cohen
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