Stem-loop sequence mdo-mir-221

Accession MI0005348
Description Monodelphis domestica miR-221 stem-loop
Gene family MIPF0000051; mir-221
Community annotation

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In molecular biology mir-221 microRNA (and it's paralogue, mir-222) is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. mir-221 is an oncogenic microRNA. It targets CD117, which then prevents cell migration and proliferation in endothelial cells. miR-221 is known as an anti angiogenic miRNA. Recent important studies have reported that miR-221 is also involved in induction of angiogenesis. RNA induced Silencing Complex (RISC) proteins SND1 and AEG-1 induces miR-221 expression in Liver cancer. In liver cancer miR-221 induces the tumor angiogenesis.

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Stem-loop
-  a    -  ug   u         aauu    guuua 
 gc ugaa cc  gca acaauguag    cugu     u
 || |||| ||  ||| |||||||||    ||||      
 cg acuu gg  cgu uguuacauc    gaca     u
u  g    u  gu   c         ----    augaa 
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Genome context
Coordinates (MonDom5) Overlapping transcripts
chr4: 17427280-17427353 [+]
intergenic
Clustered miRNAs
< 10kb from mdo-mir-221
mdo-mir-222a chr4: 17426716-17426783 [+]
mdo-mir-221 chr4: 17427280-17427353 [+]
Database links

Mature sequence mdo-miR-221

Accession MIMAT0004160
Sequence

47 - 

agcuacauugucugcuggguuuc

 - 69

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Evidence by similarity; MI0004743
Predicted targets

References

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