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AUG sequences are required to sustain nonsense-codon-mediated suppression of splicing.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2006
Kamhi Eyal, Yahalom Galit, Kass Gideon, Hacham Yael, Sperling Ruth, Sperling Joseph
Abstract excerpt
More than 90% of human genes are rich in intronic latent 5' splice sites whose utilization in pre-mRNA splicing would introduce in-frame stop codons into the resultant mRNAs. We have therefore hypothesized that suppression of splicing (SOS) at latent 5' splice sites regulates alternative 5' splice site selection in a way that prevents the production of toxic nonsense mRNAs and verified this idea by showing that...
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