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Processing of OPA1 with a novel N-terminal mutation in patients with autosomal dominant optic atrophy: Escape from nonsense-mediated decay.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Ścieżyńska Aneta, Ruszkowska Ewelina, Szulborski Kamil, Rydz Katarzyna, Wierzbowska Joanna, Kosińska Joanna, Rękas Marek, Płoski Rafał, Szaflik Jacek Paweł, Ołdak Monika
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA) is the most common dominantly inherited optic neuropathy. In the majority of patients it is caused by OPA1 mutations and those predicted to introduce a premature termination codon (PTC) are frequently detected. Transcripts containing PTC may be degraded by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), however very little is known about an effect of OPA1 mutations on NMD activation....
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