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Doughnuts dealing with RNA

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology volume 12, pages 562–564 (2005)Cite this article

The exosome is a complex composed of 3′→5′ exoribonucleases involved in RNA processing and degradation. The first high-resolution structure of the exosome core reveals a doughnut-like arrangement of six RNase PH–type subunits.

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Figure 1: Doughnut-shaped protein complexes involved in RNA metabolism.

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The author thanks R. Raijmakers for helpful suggestions and assistance in preparation of the figure and E. Conti, B. Prasad and K. Reinisch for kindly providing the coordinates of the complexes shown in the figure.

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