mRNA Secondary Structures Fold Sequentially But Exchange Rapidly In Vivo

Self-cleavage assays of RNA folding reveal that mRNA structures fold sequentially in vitro and in vivo, but exchange between adjacent structures is much faster in vivo than it is in vitro.

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