Mir-iab-4 microRNA precursor family

In molecular biology mir-iab-4 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.

mir-iab-4
Identifiers
Symbol	mir-iab-4
Rfam	RF00725
miRBase family	MIPF0000151
Other data
RNA type	microRNA
Domain(s)	Eukaryota;
PDB structures	PDBe

See also

• MicroRNA

Further reading

• Miura S, Nozawa M, Nei M (2010). "Evolutionary changes of the target sites of two microRNAs encoded in the Hox gene cluster of Drosophila and other insect species". Genome Biology and Evolution. 3: 129–39. doi:10.1093/gbe/evq088. PMC 3041157. PMID 21187351.
• Catanese DJ, Matthews KS (August 2010). "High affinity, dsRNA binding by disconnected interacting protein 1". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 399 (2): 186–91. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.07.052. PMC 2931317. PMID 20643095.
• Tyler DM, Okamura K, Chung WJ, Hagen JW, Berezikov E, Hannon GJ, Lai EC (January 2008). "Functionally distinct regulatory RNAs generated by bidirectional transcription and processing of microRNA loci". Genes & Development. 22 (1): 26–36. doi:10.1101/gad.1615208. PMC 2151012. PMID 18172163.
• Ruby JG, Stark A, Johnston WK, Kellis M, Bartel DP, Lai EC (December 2007). "Evolution, biogenesis, expression, and target predictions of a substantially expanded set of Drosophila microRNAs". Genome Research. 17 (12): 1850–64. doi:10.1101/gr.6597907. PMC 2099593. PMID 17989254.
• Ronshaugen M, Biemar F, Piel J, Levine M, Lai EC (December 2005). "The Drosophila microRNA iab-4 causes a dominant homeotic transformation of halteres to wings". Genes & Development. 19 (24): 2947–52. doi:10.1101/gad.1372505. PMC 1315399. PMID 16357215.

External links

• Page for mir-iab-4 microRNA precursor family at Rfam