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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA. 2016 Sep 23;8(1):10.1002/wrna.1397. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1397

Figure 1. Post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Figure 1

Key aspects of post-transcriptional gene regulation. Although the central dogma of molecular biology, that DNA makes RNA makes protein (biomolecules are shown in black), is generally true and is useful, there are a variety processing steps (red) that control the flow of information between the key events. Additionally, the control of biological information is compartmentalized within the cell, and here subcellular structures are identified in blue. It should be noted that microRNA (miRNA) species interact with mRNA and can either promote degradation or inhibit translation to protein.