Structural basis of microRNA length variety
Structural basis of microRNA length variety is a scholarly work by Edyta Koscianska, Piotr Kozlowski, Wojciech J Szlachcic, Włodzimierz Krzyżosiak, and Krzysztof Sobczak, published in 2010 in ''Nucleic Acids Research''. The main subjects of the publication include gene, Ribonuclease III, ribonucleic acid, genetics, Drosha ribonuclease III, RNA interference, methylation, biology, microRNA, RNA splicing, Dicer 1, ribonuclease III, Argonaute protein family, computational biology, and small RNA. The authors found that asymmetrical structural motifs present in precursor hairpins are primarily responsible for the length diversity of miRNAs generated by Dicer.