Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

General rules for functional microRNA targeting

D Kim, YM Sung, J Park, S Kim, J Kim, J Park, H Ha… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The functional rules for microRNA (miRNA) targeting remain controversial despite their
biological importance because only a small fraction of distinct interactions, called site types …

Transcriptome-wide miR-155 binding map reveals widespread noncanonical microRNA targeting

GB Loeb, AA Khan, D Canner, JB Hiatt, J Shendure… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are essential components of gene regulation, but identification of
miRNA targets remains a major challenge. Most target prediction and discovery relies on …

MicroRNA targeting specificity in mammals: determinants beyond seed pairing

A Grimson, KKH Farh, WK Johnston, P Garrett-Engele… - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Mammalian microRNAs (miRNAs) pair to 3′ UTRs of mRNAs to direct their
posttranscriptional repression. Important for target recognition are∼ 7 nt sites that match the …

ComiR: combinatorial microRNA target prediction tool

C Coronnello, PV Benos - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
ComiR is a web tool for combinatorial microRNA (miRNA) target prediction. Given an
messenger RNA (mRNA) in human, mouse, fly or worm genomes, ComiR computes the …

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) …

The biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy

SE McGeary, KS Lin, CY Shi, TM Pham, N Bisaria… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that guide repression of mRNA
targets. Each miRNA associates with an Argonaute (AGO) protein to form a complex in …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNA target recognition: insights from transcriptome-wide non-canonical interactions

H Seok, J Ham, ES Jang, SW Chi - Molecules and cells, 2016 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs (∼ 22 nucleotides) regulating gene
expression at the post-transcriptional level. By directing the RNA-induced silencing complex …

IsomiRs: expanding the miRNA repression toolbox beyond the seed

X Bofill-De Ros, A Yang, S Gu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2020 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that play increasingly
appreciated roles in gene regulation. In animals, miRNAs silence gene expression by …

Prediction of both conserved and nonconserved microRNA targets in animals

X Wang, IM El Naqa - Bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in many diverse biological processes and
they may potentially regulate the functions of thousands of genes. However, one major issue …