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SUBMITTER: Stoecklin G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1369226 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stoecklin Georg G Mayo Thomas T Anderson Paul P
EMBO reports 20060101 1
As an important mode of suppressing gene expression, messenger RNAs containing an AU-rich element (ARE) in the 3' untranslated region are rapidly degraded in the cytoplasm. ARE-mediated mRNA decay (AMD) is initiated by deadenylation, and in vitro studies have indicated that subsequent degradation occurs in the 3'-5' direction through a complex of exonucleases termed the exosome. An alternative pathway of mRNA degradation occurs at processing bodies, cytoplasmic foci that contain decapping enzyme ...[more]