Mir-160 microRNA precursor family

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mir-160 microRNA precursor family
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Type: Gene; miRNA;
2° structure: Predicted; PFOLD
Seed alignment: Griffiths-Jones SR
Avg length: 94.5 nucleotides
Avg identity: 65%

In molecular biology, mir-160 is a microRNA that has been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a range of plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress) and Oryza sativa (rice) (MIPF0000032). miR-160 is predicted to bind complementary sites in the untranslated regions of auxin response factor genes to regulate their expression.[1] The hairpin precursors (represented here) are predicted based on base pairing and cross-species conservation; their extents are not known. In this case, the mature sequence is excised from the 5' arm of the hairpin.

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  1. ^ Rhoades, MW; Reinhart BJ, Lim LP, Burge CB, Bartel B, Bartel DP (2002). "Prediction of plant microRNA targets". Cell 110: 513–520. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00863-2. PMID 12202040. 

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