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Processing bodies are not required for mammalian nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jul 2009
Stalder Lukas, Mühlemann Oliver
Abstract excerpt
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality-control mechanism that recognizes and degrades mRNAs with premature termination codons (PTCs). In yeast, PTC-containing mRNAs are targeted to processing bodies (P-bodies), and yeast strains expressing an ATPase defective Upf1p mutant accumulate P-bodies. Here we show that in human cells, an ATPase-deficient UPF1 mutant and a fraction of UPF2 and UPF3b...
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