Structural profiles of human miRNA families from pairwise clustering

Bogumil Kaczkowski, Elfar Þórarinsson, Kristin Reiche, Jakob Hull Havgaard, Peter F. Stadler, Jan Gorodkin

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Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small, approximately 21 nt long, riboregulators 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. Availability: http://genome.ku.dk/resources/mirclust
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftBioinformatics
Vol/bind25
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)291-294
Antal sider4
ISSN1367-4803
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2009

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