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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 22, Issue 10, Pages 532-536Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.08.007
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA 15450] Funding Source: Medline
- NLM NIH HHS [LM 07292] Funding Source: Medline
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Recently, we reported that four microRNAs show perfect complementarity with MIR/LINE-2 elements within human mRNAs. This finding raises the question of whether microRNAs might also target other genomic repeats and transposable elements. Here, we demonstrate that almost 30 human microRNAs exhibit typical short-seed complementarity with a specific site within Alu elements that is highly conserved within 3' untranslated regions of human mRNAs. The results suggest that at least some Alu elements within human mRNAs serve as microRNA targets.
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