The continuing allure of RNA
- Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Corresponding author: jmg13{at}case.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had a career that spans so much of the flowering of RNA biology. Looking back, despite the fact that my initial projects centered on DNA and proteins, I was drawn to the field early on, starting with my very first journal club on the newly discovered intervening sequences in adenovirus mRNAs. Ultimately, it was my fortuitous decision to review the nascent field of group I and group II introns for a classroom assignment that led to the wonderful collaboration between the Shub and Belfort labs that firmly rooted me in the RNA world. Then, as a post-doc in the Uhlenbeck lab, my initial journal club covered all 5 extant research articles on RNA editing, setting me on my future path. Space constraints preclude listing all of the stunning discoveries that have been made over the last 20 years, so instead I will briefly mention …
