The exon junction complex as a node of post-transcriptional networks

HL Hir, J Saulière, Z Wang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
The exon junction complex (EJC) is deposited onto mRNAs following splicing and adopts a
unique structure, which can both stably bind to mRNAs and function as an anchor for diverse …

Mechanism and regulation of the nonsense-mediated decay pathway

N Hug, D Longman, JF Cáceres - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway selectively degrades mRNAs
harboring premature termination codons (PTCs) but also regulates the abundance of a large …

Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay: novel mechanistic insights and biological impact

ED Karousis, S Nasif… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay (NMD) was originally coined to define a quality control
mechanism that targets mRNAs with truncated open reading frames due to the presence of a …

[HTML][HTML] Degradation of Gadd45 mRNA by nonsense-mediated decay is essential for viability

JO Nelson, KA Moore, A Chapin, J Hollien… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway functions to degrade both abnormal
and wild-type mRNAs. NMD is essential for viability in most organisms, but the molecular …

Physiological and pathophysiological role of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

F Ottens, NH Gehring - Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology, 2016 - Springer
Nonsense-mediated messenger RNA (mRNA) decay (NMD) is a quality control mechanism
that degrades irregular or faulty mRNAs. NMD mainly degrades mRNAs, which contain a …

[HTML][HTML] The exon junction complex controls the efficient and faithful splicing of a subset of transcripts involved in mitotic cell-cycle progression

K Fukumura, S Wakabayashi, N Kataoka… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
The exon junction complex (EJC) that is deposited onto spliced mRNAs upstream of exon–
exon junctions plays important roles in multiple post-splicing gene expression events, such …

[HTML][HTML] Nonsense suppression as an approach to treat lysosomal storage diseases

KM Keeling - Diseases, 2016 - mdpi.com
In-frame premature termination codons (PTCs)(also referred to as nonsense mutations)
comprise~ 10% of all disease-associated gene lesions. PTCs reduce gene expression in …

[HTML][HTML] Proteomic analysis reveals branch-specific regulation of the unfolded protein response by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

J Sieber, C Hauer, M Bhuvanagiri, S Leicht… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2016 - ASBMB
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) has originally been described as a surveillance
mechanism to inhibit the expression of mRNAs with truncated open reading frames (ORFs) …

[HTML][HTML] Embryonic stem cells exhibit mRNA isoform specific translational regulation

QWL Wong, C Vaz, QY Lee, TY Zhao, R Luo… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The presence of multiple variants for many mRNAs is a major contributor to protein diversity.
The processing of these variants is tightly controlled in a cell-type specific manner and has a …

Study of Exon Junction Complex in mouse neural stem cells

RK Mishra - 2016 - theses.hal.science
The Exon Junction Complex (EJC) plays a central role in coupling post-transcriptional
processes in metazoans. This multi-protein complex is assembled onto messengers RNAs …