Periodic Reporting for period 1 - RNA Smuggling (Mechanistic analysis of piRNA precursor nuclear export)

The export of messenger RNA (mRNA) from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a key step in eukaryotic gene expression. mRNAs are transcribed by RNA Polymerase II as pre-mRNAs, which subsequently undergo a series of processing steps such as capping, splicing and poly-adenylation to...