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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2005 Sep 23;122(6):875–886. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.07.012

Figure 7. A General Active Repression Machinery Exists that Is in Competition with Translation.

Figure 7

This competition creates a finely balanced system setting the relative translation rate for an mRNA. mRNAs can be driven into either translation or repression by tipping the balance of this competition via any number of events.