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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Main Authors: Guo, Huili, Ingolia, Nicholas T., Weissman, Jonathan S., Bartel, David
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Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72447
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