Mir-160 microRNA precursor family

In molecular biology, mir-160 is a microRNA that has been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a range of plant species including "Arabidopsis thaliana" (mouse-ear cress) and "Oryza sativa" (rice) ( [http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/sequences/mirna_summary.pl?fam=MIPF0000032 MIPF0000032] ). miR-160 is predicted to bind complementary sites in the untranslated regions of auxin response factor genes to regulate their expression. [cite journal | last = Rhoades | first = MW | coauthors = Reinhart BJ, Lim LP, Burge CB, Bartel B, Bartel DP | year = 2002 | title = Prediction of plant microRNA targets | journal = Cell | volume = 110 | pages = 513–520 | pmid = 12202040 | doi = 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00863-2] The hairpin precursors (represented here) are predicted based on base pairing and cross-species conservation; their extents are not known. In this case, the mature sequence is excised from the 5' arm of the hairpin.

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* [http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/sequences/mirna_summary.pl?fam=MIPF0000032 MIPF0000032]