Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay utilizes complementary mechanisms to suppress mRNA and protein accumulation Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an essential, highly conserved quality control pathway that detects and degrades mRNAs containing premature termination codons (PTCs). Although the essentiality of NMD is frequently ascribed to its prevention of truncated protein accumulation, the extent to which NMD actually suppresses proteins encoded by NMD-sensitive transcripts is less well-understood than NMD-mediated suppression of mRNA. Here, we describe a reporter system that permits accurate quantification of both mRNA and protein levels via stable integration of paired reporters encoding NMD-sensitive and NMD-insensitive transcripts into the AAVS1 safe harbor loci in human cells. We use this system to demonstrate that NMD suppresses proteins encoded by NMD-sensitive transcripts by up to [~]8-fold more than the mRNA itself. Our data indicate that NMD limits the accumulation of proteins encoded by NMD substrates by mechanisms beyond mRNA degradation, such that even when NMD-sensitive mRNAs escape destruction, their encoded proteins are still effectively suppressed.
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: immunology