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A novel phosphorylation-independent interaction between SMG6 and UPF1 is essential for human NMD.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Aug 2014
Nicholson Pamela, Josi Christoph, Kurosawa Hitomi, Yamashita Akio, Mühlemann Oliver
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic mRNAs with premature translation-termination codons (PTCs) are recognized and eliminated by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD). NMD substrates can be degraded by different routes that all require phosphorylated UPF1 (P-UPF1) as a starting point. The endonuclease SMG6, which cleaves mRNA near the PTC, is one of the three known NMD factors thought to be recruited to nonsense mRNAs via an interaction with...
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