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Aberrant mRNAs with extended 3' UTRs are substrates for rapid degradation by mRNA surveillance.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Oct 1999
Muhlrad D, Parker R
Abstract excerpt
The mRNA surveillance system is known to rapidly degrade aberrant mRNAs that contain premature termination codons in a process referred to as nonsense-mediated decay. A second class of aberrant mRNAs are those wherein the 3' UTR is abnormally extended due to a mutation in the polyadenylation site. We provide several observations that these abnormally 3'-extended mRNAs are degraded by the same machinery that...
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