Unusual Bipartite Mode of Interaction between the Nonsense-Mediated Decay Factors, Upf1 and Upf2.
Clerici, M., Mourao, A., Gutsche, I., Gehring, N.H., Hentze, M.W., Kulozik, A., Kadlec, J., Sattler, M., Cusack, S.(2009) EMBO J 28: 2293
- PubMed: 19556969 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2009.175
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2WJV, 2WJY - PubMed Abstract: 
Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic quality control mechanism that degrades mRNAs carrying premature stop codons. In mammalian cells, NMD is triggered when UPF2 bound to UPF3 on a downstream exon junction complex interacts with UPF1 bound to a stalled ribosome ...