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ATP hydrolysis by UPF1 is required for efficient translation termination at premature stop codons.
Nature communications - 23 Dec 2016
Serdar Lucas D, Whiteside DaJuan L, Baker Kristian E
Abstract excerpt
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) represents a eukaryotic quality control pathway that recognizes and rapidly degrades transcripts harbouring nonsense mutations to limit accumulation of non-functional and potentially toxic truncated polypeptides. A critical component of the NMD machinery is UPF1, an RNA helicase whose ATPase activity is essential for NMD, but for which the precise function and site of action...
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