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ImiRP: a computational approach to microRNA target site mutation.
BMC bioinformatics - 27 Apr 2016
Ryan Bridget C, Werner Torben S, Howard Perry L, Chow Robert L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small ~22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional regulators of messenger RNA (mRNA) through base-pairing to 6-8 nucleotide long target sites, usually located within the mRNA 3' untranslated region. A common approach to validate and probe microRNA-mRNA interactions is to mutate predicted target sites within the mRNA and determine whether it affects...
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