GO:0000932 / Cellular Component

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May 27, 2024, 8:45 p.m.

GO:0000932

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A focus in the cytoplasm where mRNAs may become inactivated by decapping or some other mechanism. Protein and RNA localized to these foci are involved in mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), translational repression, and RNA-mediated gene silencing.