Mir-552 microRNA precursor family

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mir-552
Identifiers
Symbolmir-552
Rfam RF00990
miRBase family MIPF0000501
Other data
RNA type microRNA
Domain Eukaryota;
PDB structures PDBe

In molecular biology mir-552 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Researchers have detected elevated levels of mir-522 expression in colorectal cancer metastases. [1]

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  1. Kim J, Lim NJ, Jang SG, Kim HK, Lee GK (May 2014). "miR-592 and miR-552 can distinguish between primary lung adenocarcinoma and colorectal cancer metastases in the lung". Anticancer Research. 34 (5): 2297–302. PMID   24778034.

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