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Science 2 May 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5620, pp. 753 - 755
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084512
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Perspectives

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Place to Die, a Place to Sleep

Marvin Wickens and Aaron Goldstrohm

It seems that mRNAs are peripatetic molecules that roam from place to place in the cell. In a Perspective, Wickens and Goldstrohm provide us with coordinates of this remarkable journey and unveil a new particle where mRNAs die or escape the sound and the fury of the cytoplasm (Sheth and Parker).

The author is in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. E-mail: wickens{at}biochem.wisc.edu

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