Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of miRNAs from Pinus densata

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Conserved miRNA targets and their putative functions

miRNA	Target function	Target^a	*Conserved with						GO annotation
			ath	osa	ptc	pta	tch	pab
pde-miR162	DCL1	Singletons83286 (2)	+	+	-	-	-	-	RNA processing
	Nodal modulator 1-like	Singletons11093 (1) ^b	+	+	+	-	-	-	Carboxypeptidase activity
pde-miR166	Class III HD-Zip protein HDZ33	Singletons59617 (2)	+	+	-	-	-	+	DNA binding
pde-miR171	GRAS family transcription factor	Singletons10015 (0.5)^b Singletons84522 (0.5)	+	+	-	-	-	-	DNA binding
	Actin binding protein	Singletons83401 (3) ^b	-	-	-	-	-	-	Actin binding
pde-miR482	Histone deacetylase	Singletons7264 (3) ^b	+	+	+	-	-	+	Histone deacetylation
pde-miR2118	CC-NBS-LRR resistance-like protein	Singletons50083 (3) Singletons65538 (3) Singletons72472 (3)	-	+	-	-	-	+	Defense response

^a All predicted miRNA targets with penalty scores (shown in parentheses) of three or less are listed.
^b validated by RLM-5' RACE.
*Ath, osa, ptc, pta, tch and pab are the abbreviations for A. thaliana, O. sativa, P. trichocarpa, P. taeda, T. chinensis and P. abies, respectively.

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