Oxidation and alkylation stresses activate ribosome-quality control

Abstract

The mRNA-surveillance pathway of no-go decay (NGD) is a eukaryotic ribosome-based-quality-control process that targets transcripts that stall the ribosome. Here the authors show no-go decay (NGD) and ribosome-quality control (RQC) pathways are activated by mRNAs damaged by alkylation and oxidation stress.