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RNA biology

a quality control route that destroys transcripts lacking a stop codon and the peptide made from them.

In RNA biology, nonstop decay refers to a quality control route that destroys transcripts lacking a stop codon and the peptide made from them. This meaning comes from Frischmeyer (2002) in Science.[1]

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References

Frischmeyer, P. A., van Hoof, A., O'Donnell, K., Guerrerio, A. L., Parker, R., & Dietz, H. C. (2002). An mRNA Surveillance Mechanism That Eliminates Transcripts Lacking Termination Codons. Science, 295(5563), 2258-2261. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1067338

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