In this issue of Molecular Cell, using leading-edge technologies, Metkar et al. (2018) and Adivarahan et al. (2018) revisit the spatial organization of mRNPs, showing that they form flexible rod-like structures prior to translation that decompact during translation while the closed-loop conformation is rarely observed.
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