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1: Genome Biol. 2002;3(3):REVIEWS1006. Epub 2002 Feb 26.
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Integration of splicing, transport and translation to achieve mRNA quality control by the nonsense-mediated decay pathway.

Schell T, Kulozik AE, Hentze MW.

EMBL Heidelberg, Gene Expression Programme, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. hentze@embl-heidelberg.de

When pre-mRNAs are spliced, a multi-component complex is deposited onto them, close to the sites of intron removal. New findings suggest that these exon-exon junction complexes and the complexes that bind mRNA caps are key effectors of the fate of spliced mRNAs and may regulate whether mRNAs containing premature stop codons are degraded.

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PMID: 11897029 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC139025