GO TERM SUMMARY
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Name: |
nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay |
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GO:0000184 |
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Biological Process |
Desc: |
The nonsense-mediated decay pathway for nuclear-transcribed mRNAs degrades mRNAs in which an amino-acid codon has changed to a nonsense codon; this prevents the translation of such mRNAs into truncated, and potentially harmful, proteins. |
Synonyms:
- mRNA breakdown, nonsense-mediated decay
- nuclear mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay
- mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated
- mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated decay
- nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
- mRNA catabolism, nonsense-mediated
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