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Utilizing the GCN4 leader region to investigate the role of the sequence determinants in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
The EMBO journal - 3 Jun 1996
Ruiz-Echevarria M J, Peltz S W
Abstract excerpt
In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, premature translation termination promotes rapid degradation of mRNAs. Accelerated decay requires the presence of specific cis-acting sequences which have been defined as downstream elements. It has been proposed that the role of the downstream element may be to promote translational reinitiation or ribosomal pausing. The GCN4 gene produces an mRNA that contains four short...
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