title: Dying mRNA Tells a Story of Its Life.
abstract: In this issue of Cell, Pelechano et al. report that sequencing of mRNA decay intermediates shows surprisingly tight coupling of a major decay pathway to the movement of the last translating ribosome, revealing stress- and starvation-dependent modulation of translation elongation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: ewallace@uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Edward W J
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: dadrummond@uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: D Allan
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Drummond
mesh_terms: D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D020871:RNA Stability; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism*