| Literature DB >> 25622574 |
Sumangala P Shetty1, Paul R Copeland2.
Abstract
The incorporation of the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine (Sec), occurs on mRNAs that harbor in-frame stop codons because the Sec-tRNA(Sec) recognizes a UGA codon. This sets up an intriguing interplay between translation elongation, translation termination and the complex machinery that marks mRNAs that contain premature termination codons for degradation, leading to nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD). In this review we discuss the intricate and complex relationship between this key quality control mechanism and the process of Sec incorporation in mammals.Entities:
Keywords: NMD; Selenocysteine; mRNA decay
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25622574 PMCID: PMC4458392 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.01.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochimie ISSN: 0300-9084 Impact factor: 4.079