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| mir-101 microRNA precursor family |
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| Type: |
Gene; miRNA; |
| 2° structure: |
Predicted; PFOLD |
| Seed alignment: |
Griffiths-Jones SR |
| Avg length: |
75.0 nucleotides |
| Avg identity: |
89% |
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miR-101 microRNA precursor is a small non-coding RNA that regulates gene expression. Expression of miR-101 has been validated in both human (MI0000103, MI0000739)[1] and mouse (MI0000148).[2] This microRNA appears to be specific to the vertebrates and has now been predicted or confirmed in a wide range of vertebrate species (MIPF0000046). The precursor microRNA is a stem-loop structure of about 70 nucleotides in length that is processed by the Dicer enzyme to form the 21-24 nucleotide mature microRNA. In this case the mature sequence is excised from the 3' arm of the hairpin.
[edit] References
- ^ Mourelatos, Z; Dostie J, Paushkin S, Sharma A, Charroux B, Abel L, Rappsilber J, Mann M, Dreyfuss G (2002). "miRNPs: a novel class of ribonucleoproteins containing numerous microRNAs". Genes Dev 16: 720–728. doi:10.1101/gad.974702. PMID 11914277.
- ^ Lagos-Quintana, M; Rauhut R, Yalcin A, Meyer J, Lendeckel W, Tuschl T (2002). "Identification of tissue-specific microRNAs from mouse". Curr Biol 12: 735–739. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00809-6. PMID 12007417.
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