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The nonsense-mediated RNA decay pathway is disrupted in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Aug 2016
Lu JingWei, Plank Terra-Dawn, Su Fang, Shi XiuJuan, Liu Chen, Ji Yuan, Li ShuaiJun, Huynh Andrew, Shi Chao, Zhu Bo, Yang Guang, Wu YanMing, Wilkinson Miles F, Lu YanJun
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) are characterized by myofibroblast proliferation and an inflammatory cell infiltrate. Little is known about the molecular pathways that precipitate IMT formation. Here, we report the identification of somatic mutations in UPF1, a gene that encodes an essential component of the nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) pathway, in 13 of 15 pulmonary IMT samples. The majority of...
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