Biology:Mir-iab-4 microRNA precursor family

mir-iab-4
Identifiers
Symbol	mir-iab-4
Rfam	RF00725
miRBase family	MIPF0000151
Other data
RNA type	microRNA
Domain(s)	Eukaryota;
PDB structures	PDBe

In molecular biology mir-iab-4 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.

See also

• MicroRNA

Further reading

• "Evolutionary changes of the target sites of two microRNAs encoded in the Hox gene cluster of Drosophila and other insect species". Genome Biology and Evolution 3: 129–39. 2010. doi:10.1093/gbe/evq088. PMID 21187351. 
• "High affinity, dsRNA binding by disconnected interacting protein 1". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 399 (2): 186–91. August 2010. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.07.052. PMID 20643095. 
• "Functionally distinct regulatory RNAs generated by bidirectional transcription and processing of microRNA loci". Genes & Development 22 (1): 26–36. January 2008. doi:10.1101/gad.1615208. PMID 18172163. 
• "Evolution, biogenesis, expression, and target predictions of a substantially expanded set of Drosophila microRNAs". Genome Research 17 (12): 1850–64. December 2007. doi:10.1101/gr.6597907. PMID 17989254. 
• "The Drosophila microRNA iab-4 causes a dominant homeotic transformation of halteres to wings". Genes & Development 19 (24): 2947–52. December 2005. doi:10.1101/gad.1372505. PMID 16357215. 

External links

• Page for mir-iab-4 microRNA precursor family at Rfam