[HTML][HTML] Metazoan micrornas

DP Bartel - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
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 …

microRNA strand selection: Unwinding the rules

JC Medley, G Panzade… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) play a central role in the regulation of gene expression by
targeting specific mRNAs for degradation or translational repression. Each miRNA is post …

Genome-wide analysis of drosophila circular RNAs reveals their structural and sequence properties and age-dependent neural accumulation

JO Westholm, P Miura, S Olson, S Shenker, B Joseph… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
Circularization was recently recognized to broadly expand transcriptome complexity. Here,
we exploit massive Drosophila total RNA-sequencing data,> 5 billion paired-end reads …

Diversifying microRNA sequence and function

SL Ameres, PD Zamore - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2013 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate the expression of most genes in animals, but we are only
now beginning to understand how they are generated, assembled into functional complexes …

miRDeep2 accurately identifies known and hundreds of novel microRNA genes in seven animal clades

MR Friedländer, SD Mackowiak, N Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) are a large class of small non-coding RNAs which post-
transcriptionally regulate the expression of a large fraction of all animal genes and are …

Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq

CD Arnold, D Gerlach, C Stelzer, ŁM Boryń, M Rath… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Genomic enhancers are important regulators of gene expression, but their identification is a
challenge, and methods depend on indirect measures of activity. We developed a method …

A uniform system for the annotation of vertebrate microRNA genes and the evolution of the human microRNAome

B Fromm, T Billipp, LE Peck, M Johansen… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Although microRNAs (miRNAs) are among the most intensively studied molecules of the
past 20 years, determining what is and what is not a miRNA has not been straightforward …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous transcripts direct microRNA degradation in Drosophila, and this targeted degradation is required for proper embryonic development

ER Kingston, LW Blodgett, DP Bartel - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) typically direct degradation of their mRNA targets. However, some
targets have unusual miRNA-binding sites that direct degradation of cognate miRNAs …

Weak seed-pairing stability and high target-site abundance decrease the proficiency of lsy-6 and other microRNAs

DM Garcia, D Baek, C Shin, GW Bell… - Nature structural & …, 2011 - nature.com
Most metazoan microRNAs (miRNAs) target many genes for repression, but the nematode
lsy-6 miRNA is much less proficient. Here we show that the low proficiency of lsy-6 can be …

Most mammalian mRNAs are conserved targets of microRNAs

RC Friedman, KKH Farh, CB Burge… - Genome research, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous RNAs that pair to sites in mRNAs to direct post-
transcriptional repression. Many sites that match the miRNA seed (nucleotides 2–7) …