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All clear for ribosome landing

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The discovery of a dramatic structural rearrangement that is stabilized by an RNA scaffold helps to explain how nascent proteins are delivered for export from the cell cytoplasm. See Letter p.271

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Figure 1: Handover of translating ribosomes.

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Bernstein, H. All clear for ribosome landing. Nature 492, 189–191 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/492189a

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