Mammalian microRNAs predominantly act to decrease target mRNA levels
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous ~22-nucleotide RNAs that mediate important gene-regulatory events by pairing to the mRNAs of protein-coding genes to direct their repression. Repression of these regulatory targets leads to decreased translational efficiency and/or decreased mRNA levels, but the rel...
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Nature Publishing Group
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72447 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3872-2856 |