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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
SUBMITTER: Marcus Johansson
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9486 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Johansson Marcus J O MJ He Feng F Spatrick Phyllis P Li Chunfang C Jacobson Allan A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071217 52
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a surveillance mechanism that detects and degrades transcripts containing premature translation termination codons. Gene expression profiling experiments have shown that inactivation of the NMD pathway leads to the accumulation of both aberrant, nonsense-containing mRNAs, and many apparently wild-type transcripts. Such increases in transcript steady-state levels could arise from direct changes in the respective mRNA half-lives, or indirectly, as a consequenc ...[more]