Organizing principles of mammalian nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

MWL Popp, LE Maquat - Annual review of genetics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Cells use messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to ensure the accurate dissemination of genetic
information encoded by DNA. Given that mRNAs largely direct the synthesis of a critical …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay—mechanisms of substrate mRNA recognition and degradation in mammalian cells

C Schweingruber, SC Rufener, D Zünd… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2013 - Elsevier
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway is well known as a translation-
coupled quality control system that recognizes and degrades aberrant mRNAs with …

Translation-dependent displacement of UPF1 from coding sequences causes its enrichment in 3′ UTRs

D Zünd, AR Gruber, M Zavolan… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
Recruitment of the UPF1 nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) factor to target mRNAs
was initially proposed to occur through interaction with release factors at terminating …

Contribution of copy number variants involving nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway genes to neuro-developmental disorders

LS Nguyen, HG Kim, JA Rosenfeld… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway functions not only to degrade
transcripts containing premature termination codons (PTC), but also to regulate the …

Attenuation of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay enhances in vivo nonsense suppression

KM Keeling, D Wang, Y Dai, S Murugesan, B Chenna… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Nonsense suppression therapy is an approach to treat genetic diseases caused by
nonsense mutations. This therapeutic strategy pharmacologically suppresses translation …

Role of SMG‐1‐mediated U pf1 phosphorylation in mammalian nonsense‐mediated m RNA decay

A Yamashita - Genes to Cells, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
SMG‐1, a member of the PIKK (phosphoinositide 3‐kinase‐related kinase) family, plays a
critical role in the m RNA quality control system known as nonsense‐mediated m RNA …

[HTML][HTML] When a ribosome encounters a premature termination codon

J Hwang, YK Kim - BMB reports, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In mammalian cells, aberrant transcripts harboring a premature termination codon (PTC) can
be generated by abnormal or inefficient biogenesis of mRNAs or by somatic mutation …

Inhibition of SMG-8, a subunit of SMG-1 kinase, ameliorates nonsense-mediated mRNA decay-exacerbated mutant phenotypes without cytotoxicity

F Usuki, A Yamashita, T Shiraishi… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an mRNA surveillance mechanism that
eliminates aberrant mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). NMD inhibits …

Accounting for noise when clustering biological data

R Sloutsky, N Jimenez, SJ Swamidass… - Briefings in …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Clustering is a powerful and commonly used technique that organizes and elucidates the
structure of biological data. Clustering data from gene expression, metabolomics and …

Genome-wide pathway analysis reveals different signaling pathways between secreted lactoferrin and intracellular delta-lactoferrin

B Kim, S Kang, SJ Kim - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Human lactoferrin (LF) is a multifunctional protein involved in immunomodulation, cellular
growth, and differentiation. In addition to its secreted form (sLF), an alternative form (ΔLF) …