mir-166 microRNA precursor
| mir-166 microRNA precursor | |
|---|---|
| SO | SO:0001244 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
The plant mir-166 microRNA precursor is a small non-coding RNA gene. This microRNA (miRNA) has now been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a wide range of plant species.[1] microRNAs are transcribed as ~70 nucleotide precursors and subsequently processed by the Dicer enzyme to give a ~22 nucleotide product.[2] In this case the mature sequence comes from the 3' arm of the precursor, and both Arabidopsis thaliana and rice genomes contain a number of related miRNA precursors which give rise to almost identical mature sequences.[3] The mature products are thought to have regulatory roles through complementarity to messenger RNA.
References
- ^ "miRNA gene family: MIR166". mirBASE. University of Manchester. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- PMID 11779458.
- PMID 12101121.
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