MIR34A

MIR34A
Identifiers
Aliases	MIR34A, MIRN34A, miRNA34A, mir-34, mir-34a, microRNA 34a
External IDs	GeneCards: MIR34A
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	407040	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000207865	n/a
UniProt	n/a	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	n/a	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	n/a	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 1: 9.15 – 9.15 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a
Wikidata

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MicroRNA 34a is a MicroRNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR34A gene.^[2]

Function

microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) that can be either protein-coding or non-coding. The primary transcript is cleaved by the Drosha ribonuclease III enzyme to produce an approximately 70-nt stem-loop precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA), which is further cleaved by the cytoplasmic Dicer ribonuclease to generate the mature miRNA and antisense miRNA star (miRNA*) products. The mature miRNA is incorporated into a RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which recognizes target mRNAs through imperfect base pairing with the miRNA and most commonly results in translational inhibition or destabilization of the target mRNA. The RefSeq represents the predicted microRNA stem-loop.

References

1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
2. "Entrez Gene: MicroRNA 34a".

Further reading

• Pang RT, Leung CO, Ye TM, Liu W, Chiu PC, Lam KK, Lee KF, Yeung WS (June 2010). "MicroRNA-34a suppresses invasion through downregulation of Notch1 and Jagged1 in cervical carcinoma and choriocarcinoma cells". Carcinogenesis. 31 (6): 1037–44. doi:10.1093/carcin/bgq066. PMID 20351093.
• Lim LP, Glasner ME, Yekta S, Burge CB, Bartel DP (March 2003). "Vertebrate microRNA genes". Science. 299 (5612): 1540. doi:10.1126/science.1080372. PMID 12624257.
• Zauli G, Voltan R, di Iasio MG, Bosco R, Melloni E, Sana ME, Secchiero P (May 2011). "miR-34a induces the downregulation of both E2F1 and B-Myb oncogenes in leukemic cells". Clinical Cancer Research. 17 (9): 2712–24. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-3244. PMID 21367750.
• Forte E, Salinas RE, Chang C, Zhou T, Linnstaedt SD, Gottwein E, Jacobs C, Jima D, Li QJ, Dave SS, Luftig MA (June 2012). "The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced tumor suppressor microRNA MiR-34a is growth promoting in EBV-infected B cells". Journal of Virology. 86 (12): 6889–98. doi:10.1128/JVI.07056-11. PMC 3393554. PMID 22496226.
• Navarro F, Gutman D, Meire E, Cáceres M, Rigoutsos I, Bentwich Z, Lieberman J (September 2009). "miR-34a contributes to megakaryocytic differentiation of K562 cells independently of p53". Blood. 114 (10): 2181–92. doi:10.1182/blood-2009-02-205062. PMID 19584398.
• Welch C, Chen Y, Stallings RL (July 2007). "MicroRNA-34a functions as a potential tumor suppressor by inducing apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells". Oncogene. 26 (34): 5017–22. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1210293. PMID 17297439.
• Siemens H, Jackstadt R, Hünten S, Kaller M, Menssen A, Götz U, Hermeking H (December 2011). "miR-34 and SNAIL form a double-negative feedback loop to regulate epithelial-mesenchymal transitions". Cell Cycle. 10 (24): 4256–71. doi:10.4161/cc.10.24.18552. PMID 22134354.
• Yamamura S, Saini S, Majid S, Hirata H, Ueno K, Deng G, Dahiya R (2012). "MicroRNA-34a modulates c-Myc transcriptional complexes to suppress malignancy in human prostate cancer cells". PloS One. 7 (1): e29722. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029722. PMC 3250472. PMID 22235332.
• Lou WJ, Chen Q, Liu L, Qian C (May 2010). "[miR-34s--a tumor suppression protein p53 highly related microRNA]". Yi Chuan = Hereditas / Zhongguo Yi Chuan Xue Hui Bian Ji. 32 (5): 423–30. PMID 20466628.

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.