Mir-24 microRNA precursor family

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mir-24 microRNA precursor family
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Type: Gene; miRNA;
2° structure: Predicted; PFOLD
Seed alignment: Griffiths-Jones SR
Avg length: 67.7 nucleotides
Avg identity: 86%

The miR-24 microRNA precursor is a small non-coding RNA molecule that regulates gene expression. microRNAs are transcribed as ~70 nucleotide precursors and subsequently processed by the Dicer enzyme to give a mature ~22 nucleotide product. In this case the mature sequence comes from the 3' arm of the precursor. The mature products are thought to have regulatory roles through complementarity to mRNA. miR-24 has been identified in human and mouse.[1]

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  1. ^ Lagos-Quintana, M; Rauhut R, Lendeckel W, Tuschl T (2001). "Identification of novel genes coding for small expressed RNAs". Science 294: 853–858. doi:10.1126/science.1064921. PMID 11679670. 

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