How cells kill a "killer" messenger.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27120800.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.16076 and PMC identifier 4848084.
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Abstract
Establishing a link between the nonsense-mediated decay pathway and a gene associated with programmed cell death could explain why this pathway is essential in most, but not all, eukaryotes.
Medical subject headings
- Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay
- RNA, Messenger