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The ATM-related kinase, hSMG-1, bridges genome and RNA surveillance pathways [An article from: DNA Repair]
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The ATM-related kinase, hSMG-1, bridges genome and RNA surveillance pathways [An article from: DNA Repair] | Digital

by R.T. Abraham (Author)

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This digital document is a journal article from DNA Repair, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Recent studies have identified, hSMG-1 as the newest member of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase(PI3-kinase)-related kinase (PIKK) family. The protein kinase activity of hSMG-1 resembles that of the related PIKK, ATM, both in terms of substrate specificity and its sensitivity to inhibition by the fungal metabolite wortmannin. hSMG-1 is the ortholog of a Caenorhabditis elegans protein, CeSMG-1, which has been genetically linked to a critical mRNA surveillance pathway termed nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). The function of NMD is to mark for rapid degradation mRNAs that bear a premature termination codon. Compelling evidence now indicates that hSMG-1 is also a central player in the NMD pathway in human cells. In addition, hSMG-1, like ATM, appears to be involved in the recognition and/or repair of damaged DNA in these cells. In this review, we introduce a model in which hSMG-1 teams with ATM and ATR to insure the overall quality of the transcriptome in human cells.
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