Quantitative analysis of CAPN3 and DMD transcripts: Involvement of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

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Authors	SEDLÁČKOVÁ Jana STEHLÍKOVÁ K. HERMANOVÁ Markéta VONDRÁČEK Petr FAJKUSOVÁ Lenka
Year of publication	2008
Type	Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Description	Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) are associated with mutations in the DMD gene (Xp21); limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A) with mutations in the CAPN3 gene (15q15). Pathological mutations connected with these phenotypes frequently disrupt the translational reading frame, giving rise to truncated proteins. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a type of quality control mechanism that selectively degrades mRNAs with premature termination codons (PTCs). Using real-time PCR, we performed quantitative analysis of DMD and CAPN3 transcripts carrying various mutated alleles and examined mRNA degradation by reason of NMD.
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