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Structural profiles of human miRNA families from pairwise clustering

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small, ∼21 nt long, riboreg-ulators inhibiting gene expression at a post-transcriptional level. Their most distinctive structural feature is the foldback hairpin of their precursor pre-miRNAs. Even though each pre-miRNA deposited in miRBase has its secondary structure already predicted, little is known about the patterns of structural conservation among pre-miRNAs. We address this issue by clustering the human pre-miRNA sequences based on pairwise, sequence and secondary structure alignment using FOLDALIGN, followed by global multiple alignment of obtained clusters by WAR. As a result, the common secondary structure was successfully determined for four FOLDALIGN clusters: the RF00027 structural family of the Rfam database and three clusters with previously undescribed consensus structures.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:32114
Date06 November 2018
CreatorsKaczkowski, Bogumił, Torarinsson, Elfar, Reiche, Kristin, Havgaard, Jakob Hull, Stadler, Peter F., Gorodkin, Jan
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation1460-2059

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