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| Aliases | MIR145, microRNA 145, MIRN145, miR-145, miRNA145, MIRN145 microRNA, human | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| External IDs | OMIM: 611795; GeneCards: MIR145 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| mir-145 | |
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Conserved secondary structure of mir-145 | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | mir-145 |
| Rfam | RF00675 |
| miRBase family | MIPF0000079 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | microRNA |
| Domain | Eukaryota; |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
In molecular biology, mir-145 microRNA is a short RNA molecule that in humans is encoded by the MIR145 gene. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
MicroRNAs are involved in down-regulation of a variety of target genes. Götte et al. have shown that experimental over-expression of mir-145 down-regulates the junctional cell adhesion molecule JAM-A as well as the actin bundling protein fascin in breast cancer and endometriosis cells, resulting in a reduction of cell motility. Larsson et al. showed that miR-145 targets the 3' UTR of the FLI1 gene, a finding that was later supported by Zhang et al.
miR-145 is hypothesised to be a tumor suppressor. miR-145 has been shown to be down-regulated in breast cancer. miR-145 is also involved in colon cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.