Article
Nonsense-mediated decay of human HEXA mRNA.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Aug 2001
Rajavel K S, Neufeld E F
Abstract excerpt
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), the loss of mRNAs carrying premature stop codons, is a process by which cells recognize and degrade nonsense mRNAs to prevent possibly toxic effects of truncated peptides. Most mammalian nonsense mRNAs are degraded while associated with the nucleus, but a few are degraded in the cytoplasm; at either site, there is a requirement for translation and for an intron downstream of...
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