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Exosome-mediated recognition and degradation of mRNAs lacking a termination codon.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Mar 2002
van Hoof Ambro, Frischmeyer Pamela A, Dietz Harry C, Parker Roy
Abstract excerpt
One role of messenger RNA (mRNA) degradation is to maintain the fidelity of gene expression by degrading aberrant transcripts. Recent results show that mRNAs without translation termination codons are unstable in eukaryotic cells. We used yeast mutants to demonstrate that these "nonstop" mRNAs are degraded by the exosome in a 3'-to-5' direction. The degradation of nonstop transcripts requires the...
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