PostTranscriptional Regulation by STAR Proteins: Control of RNA Metabolism in Development and Disease (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

This book aims to bring to the forefront a field that has been developing since the late 1990s called the STAR pathway for Signal Transduction and Activation of RNA. It is a signaling pathway that targets RNA directly; in contrast to the canonical signal—kinase cascade—transcription factor—DNA—RNA. It is proposed to allow quick responses to environment changes such as those necessary in many biological phenomenon such as the nervous system and during development.