RNA-Seq of WT Flp-In T-REx 293, UPF3B knockout and UPF3A-UPF3B double knockout cell lines with additional siRNA-mediated control or UPF3B knockdowns

UPF3A and UPF3B are paralogous genes in human cells that are involved in the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) pathway. NMD is a cellular quality control mechanism that monitors mRNAs during translation. Aberrant translation due to features such as the presence of a premature stop codon downstream on an exon-exon junction activates NMD and leads to the degradation of the mRNA. To investigate the role of UPF3B and UPF3A in NMD, we have generated UPF3B knockout (KO) and UPF3A-UPF3B double KO (dKO) human Flp-In T-REx 293 cells using CRISPR-Cas9. We generated RNA-Sequencing data for wildtype, UPF3B KO and UPF3A-UPF3B dKO cells with additional siRNA-mediated knockdown of Luciferase (Luc) as control or UPF3B.