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The Meaning of the Microprocessor: Accounting for Evolution of Structural-Functional Novelty in the Canonical microRNA Biogenesis Pathway

Version 1 : Received: 19 April 2019 / Approved: 23 April 2019 / Online: 23 April 2019 (11:06:29 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 23 April 2019 / Approved: 24 April 2019 / Online: 24 April 2019 (12:20:07 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 20 September 2019 / Approved: 23 September 2019 / Online: 23 September 2019 (10:16:40 CEST)

How to cite: Robinson, J. The Meaning of the Microprocessor: Accounting for Evolution of Structural-Functional Novelty in the Canonical microRNA Biogenesis Pathway. Preprints 2019, 2019040254. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201904.0254.v1 Robinson, J. The Meaning of the Microprocessor: Accounting for Evolution of Structural-Functional Novelty in the Canonical microRNA Biogenesis Pathway. Preprints 2019, 2019040254. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201904.0254.v1

Abstract

Subsidiary to detection and assignment of novel microRNAs in non-model taxa, it is standard to identify and compare genomic or transcript sequence of Drosha and Pasha. Detection of both (1) bona fide microRNAs and (2) presence of Drosha/Pasha orthologs is often assumed to represent a functional canonical eumetazoan microRNA biogenesis pathway. However, this is not often experimentally confirmed in non-model taxa, and therefore the assumption is not necessarily valid. Below I describe several lines of evidence for this assertion.

Keywords

Microprocessor, miRNA, Drosha, Pasha, miRNA biogenesis pathway, Holozoa, Metazoa, RNA interference, bona fide miRNA, canonical eumetazoan miRNA

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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