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 …

Beyond quality control: The role of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in regulating gene expression

S Nasif, L Contu, O Mühlemann - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) has traditionally been described as a quality
control system that rids cells of aberrant mRNAs with crippled protein coding potential …

Nonsense-mediated RNA decay and its bipolar function in cancer

G Nogueira, R Fernandes, JF García-Moreno… - Molecular Cancer, 2021 - Springer
Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) was first described as a quality-control mechanism that
targets and rapidly degrades aberrant mRNAs carrying premature termination codons …

Genes regulating spermatogenesis and sperm function associated with rare disorders

E Linn, L Ghanem, H Bhakta, C Greer… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Spermatogenesis is a cell differentiation process that ensures the production of fertilizing
sperm, which ultimately fuse with an egg to form a zygote. Normal spermatogenesis relies …

UPF2-dependent nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway is essential for spermatogenesis by selectively eliminating longer 3'UTR transcripts

J Bao, K Vitting-Seerup, J Waage, C Tang, Y Ge… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
During transcription, most eukaryotic genes generate multiple alternative cleavage and
polyadenylation (APA) sites, leading to the production of transcript isoforms with variable …

No-nonsense: insights into the functional interplay of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors

J Mailliot, M Vivoli-Vega, C Schaffitzel - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay (NMD) represents one of the main surveillance
pathways used by eukaryotic cells to control the quality and abundance of mRNAs and to …

Mapping genetic variants for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay regulation across human tissues

B Sun, L Chen - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) was originally conceived as an
mRNA surveillance mechanism to prevent the production of potentially deleterious truncated …

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: a 'nonsense'pathway makes sense in stem cell biology

X Han, Y Wei, H Wang, F Wang, Z Ju… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved post-transcriptional
regulatory mechanism of gene expression in eukaryotes. Originally, NMD was identified as …

Genetic loci associated with coronary artery disease harbor evidence of selection and antagonistic pleiotropy

SG Byars, QQ Huang, LA Gray, A Bakshi, S Ripatti… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Traditional genome-wide scans for positive selection have mainly uncovered selective
sweeps associated with monogenic traits. While selection on quantitative traits is much more …

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 …