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Category:GO:0000184 ! nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay
name: nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay
namespace: biological_process
def: "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]
synonym: "mRNA breakdown, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
synonym: "mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated" EXACT []
synonym: "mRNA catabolism, nonsense-mediated" EXACT []
synonym: "mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
synonym: "nonsense-mediated mRNA decay" EXACT []
synonym: "nuclear mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
xref: Wikipedia:Nonsense-mediated_decay
xref: Wikipedia:Nonsense-mediated_mRNA_decay
is_a: GO:0000956 ! nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process
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<GOterm>GO:0000184</GOterm>
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