433702-GO
Gene ID:
nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay
Details:
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. [GOC:krc, GOC:ma, PMID:10025395]
Evidence Code: