Metazoan MicroRNAs
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.006
Metazoan MicroRNAs
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ∼22 nt RNAs that direct posttranscriptional repression of mRNA targets in diverse eukaryotic lineages. In humans and other mammals, these small RNAs help sculpt the expression of most mRNAs. This article reviews advances in our understanding of the defining features of metazoan miRNAs and their biogenesis, genomics, and evolution. It then reviews how metazoan miRNAs are regulated, how they recognize and cause repression of their targets, and the biological functions of this repression, with a compilation of knockout phenotypes that shows that important biological functions have been identified for most of the broadly conserved miRNAs of mammals.
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Big Insights into Small RNAs.Biochemistry. 2020 Apr 28;59(16):1551-1552. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00252. Epub 2020 Apr 14. Biochemistry. 2020. PMID: 32289221 No abstract available.
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