non-stop decay

English

Noun

non-stop decay (uncountable)

(biochemistry) A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of damaged or mutant messenger RNAs lacking a stop codon in the proper reading frame.

Synonyms

NSD

Coordinate terms

nonsense-mediated decay, NMD

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