nonsense-mediated decay

English

Noun

nonsense-mediated decay (uncountable)

(biochemistry) A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.

Synonyms

NMD

Coordinate terms

non-stop decay, NSD

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