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mir-181 specific or not

Posted by vlisi on 13 Nov 2008 at 19:14 GMT

I am wondering if this mechanism of "target recognition" could be specific for the mir-181 family.

RE: mir-181 specific or not

czchen replied to vlisi on 20 Feb 2009 at 23:02 GMT

Pre-miRNA loops are also important for other miRNA genes we have tested.