Stem-loop aae-mir-79

Accession

MI0013500

Description

Aedes aegypti aae-mir-79 precursor miRNA

Literature search

3 open access papers mention aae-mir-79
(9 sentences)

Sequence

6518 reads, 335 reads per million, 2 experiments

gaacccaucguccauGCUUUGGCGCUUUAGCUGUAUGAuagaauuuaauauuucaUAAAGCUAGAUUACCAAAGCAUggaaggcuugggcgguguc
...((((((.((((((((((((...(((((((.(((((..............))))).)))))))...)))))))))))).))..)))).......

Structure

----gaa    --  g            CGC       G     uagaau 
       ccca  uc uccauGCUUUGG   UUUAGCU UAUGA      u
       ||||  || ||||||||||||   ||||||| |||||       
       gggu  gg aggUACGAAACC   AGAUCGA AUacu      u
cuguggc    uc  a            AUU       A     uuauaa 

Annotation confidence Medium

Comments

This miRNA was identified independently in Aedes aegypti [1] and in the closely related Aedes albopictus, for which there was no genome sequence [2]. The latter reads were therefore also mapped to the Aedes aegypti genome [2].

Genome context

supercont1.785: 213262-213357 [+]

Clustered miRNAs

2 other miRNAs are < 10 kb from aae-mir-79

Mature aae-miR-79-5p

• Accession: MIMAT0014294
• Description: Aedes aegypti aae-miR-79-5p mature miRNA
• Sequence: 16 - GCUUUGGCGCUUUAGCUGUAUGA - 38
• Evidence: experimental ; 454 [1], Illumina [2]

Mature aae-miR-79-3p

• Accession: MIMAT0014295
• Description: Aedes aegypti aae-miR-79-3p mature miRNA
• Sequence: 56 - UAAAGCUAGAUUACCAAAGCAU - 77
• Evidence: experimental ; Illumina [2]

References

1. PubMed ID: 19961592
   Direct sequencing and expression analysis of a large number of miRNAs in Aedes aegypti and a multi-species survey of novel mosquito miRNAs
   Li S, Mead EA, Liang S, Tu Z
   BMC Genomics (2009) 10:581


2. PubMed ID: 20167119
   Identification of microRNAs expressed in two mosquito vectors, Aedes albopictus and Culex quinquefasciatus
   Skalsky RL, Vanlandingham DL, Scholle F, Higgs S, Cullen BR
   BMC Genomics (2010) 11:119