Mir-219 microRNA precursor family

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mir-219 microRNA precursor family
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Type: Gene; miRNA;
2° structure: Predicted; PFOLD
Seed alignment: Griffiths-Jones SR
Avg length: 72.3 nucleotides
Avg identity: 79%

In molecular biology, the microRNA miR-219 was predicted in vertebrates by conservation between human, mouse and pufferfish and cloned in pufferfish.[1] It was later predicted and confirmed experimentally in Drosophila.[2] Homologs of miR-219 have since been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a wide range of species, including the platyhelminth Schmidtea mediterranea, several arthropod species and a wide range of vertebrates (MIPF0000044). 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. ^ Lim, LP; Glasner ME, Yekta S, Burge CB, Bartel DP (2003). "Vertebrate microRNA genes". Science 299: 1540–. doi:10.1126/science.1080372. PMID 12624257. 
  2. ^ Lai, EC; Tomancak P, Williams RW, Rubin GM (2003). "Computational identification of Drosophila microRNA genes". Genome Biol 4: R42–. doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-7-r42. PMID 12844358. 

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