Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonsense-mediated decay

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables: non-sense--me-di-at-ed de-cay
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

8

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

non-stop decay

Synonyms

NMD

Questions

What does nonsense-mediated decay mean?: A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.

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