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Ubiquitin over-expression phenotypes and ubiquitin gene molecular misreading during aging in Drosophila melanogaster.
Aging - 1 Mar 2011
Hoe Nicholas, Huang Chung M, Landis Gary, Verhage Marian, Ford Daniel, Yang Junsheng, van Leeuwen Fred W, Tower John
Abstract excerpt
Molecular Misreading (MM) is the inaccurate conversion of genomic information into aberrant proteins. For example, when RNA polymerase II transcribes a GAGAG motif it synthesizes at low frequency RNA with a two-base deletion. If the deletion occurs in a coding region, translation will result in production of misframed proteins. During mammalian aging, misframed versions of human amyloid precursor protein (hApp)...
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