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Messages from intergenic space
Email: David Secko - dmsecko@interchange.ubc.ca News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040603-01
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Although it's becoming more apparent that the intergenic space between protein-coding genes—often referred to as "junk"—is actively transcribed and often produces non–protein-coding RNAs, the role of these RNAs and their transcription is largely unknown. In the June 3 Nature, Joseph Martens, Lisa Laprade, and Fred Winston report a previously unknown form of gene regulation involving a non–protein-coding RNA, SRG1, which can regulate a neighboring gene by simply being transcribed.
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