English Explanatory Dictionary

nonsense-mediated decay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

nonsense-mediated decay

Synonyms

NMD
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