Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human cells: mechanistic insights, functions beyond quality control and the double-life of NMD factors

P Nicholson, H Yepiskoposyan, S Metze… - Cellular and molecular …, 2010 - Springer
Nonsense-mediated decay is well known by the lucid definition of being a RNA surveillance
mechanism that ensures the speedy degradation of mRNAs containing premature …

NMD: RNA biology meets human genetic medicine

M Bhuvanagiri, AM Schlitter, MW Hentze… - Biochemical …, 2010 - portlandpress.com
NMD (nonsense-mediated mRNA decay) belongs to the best-studied mRNA surveillance
systems of the cell, limiting the synthesis of truncated and potentially harmful proteins on the …

[HTML][HTML] The exon junction complex controls the splicing of MAPK and other long intron-containing transcripts in Drosophila

D Ashton-Beaucage, CM Udell, H Lavoie, C Baril… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Signaling pathways are controlled by a vast array of posttranslational mechanisms. By
contrast, little is known regarding the mechanisms that regulate the expression of their core …

[HTML][HTML] Exon junction complex subunits are required to splice Drosophila MAP kinase, a large heterochromatic gene

JY Roignant, JE Treisman - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
The exon junction complex (EJC) is assembled on spliced mRNAs upstream of exon-exon
junctions and can regulate their subsequent translation, localization, or degradation. We …

[HTML][HTML] Different requirements for conserved post-transcriptional regulators in planarian regeneration and stem cell maintenance

L Rouhana, N Shibata, O Nishimura, K Agata - Developmental biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Planarian regeneration depends on the presence and precise regulation of pluripotent adult
somatic stem cells named neoblasts, which differentiate to replace cells of any missing …

Characteristics of transposable element exonization within human and mouse

N Sela, B Mersch, A Hotz-Wagenblatt, G Ast - PLoS One, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Insertion of transposed elements within mammalian genes is thought to be an important
contributor to mammalian evolution and speciation. Insertion of transposed elements into …

Nuclear import mechanism of the EJC component Mago-Y14 revealed by structural studies of importin 13

F Bono, AG Cook, M Grünwald, J Ebert, E Conti - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Mago and Y14 are core components of the exon junction complex (EJC), an assembly
central to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in humans and mRNA localization in flies. The …