Current Biology
Volume 9, Issue 2, 28 January 1999, Pages R66-R69
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Meiosis: MeiRNA hits the spot

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Abstract

The protein Mei2 performs at least two functions required in fission yeast for the switch from mitotic to meiotic cell cycles. One of these functions also requires meiRNA. It appears that meiRNA targets Mei2 to the nucleus, where it can promote the first meiotic division.

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M Ohno and IW Mattaj, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

E-mail address for IW Mattaj: [email protected].