Identification and functional demonstration of miRNAs in the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

microRNAs (miRNAs), endogenous posttranscriptional repressors by base-pairing of their cognate mRNAs in plants and animals, have mostly been thought lost in the kingdom of fungi. Here, we report the identification of miRNAs from the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. With bioinformatics and Northern bl...

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Main Authors: Nan Jiang, Yaping Yang, Guilhem Janbon, Jiao Pan, Xudong Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23300755/?tool=EBI