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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lou CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912386 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stem cell reports 20160601 6
Nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved pathway that selectively degrades specific subsets of RNA transcripts. Here, we provide evidence that NMD regulates early human developmental cell fate. We found that NMD factors tend to be expressed at higher levels in human pluripotent cells than in differentiated cells, raising the possibility that NMD must be downregulated to permit differentiation. Loss- and gain-of-function experiments in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) demonstrate ...[more]