Prediction of viral microRNA precursors based on human microRNA precursor sequence and structural features.
MicroRNAs (small approximately 22 nucleotide long non-coding endogenous RNAs) have recently attracted immense attention as critical regulators of gene expression in multi-cellular eukaryotes, especially in humans. Recent studies have proved that viruses also express microRNAs, which are thought to contribute to the intricate mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. Computational predictions have greatly accelerated the discovery of microRNAs. However, most of these widely used tools are dependent on structural features and sequence conservation which limits their use in discovering novel virus expressed microRNAs and non-conserved eukaryotic microRNAs. In this work an efficient prediction method is developed based on the hypothesis that sequence and structure features which discriminate between host microRNA precursor hairpins and pseudo microRNAs are shared by viral microRNA as they depend on host machinery for the processing of microRNA precursors. The proposed method has been found to be more efficient than recently reported ab-initio methods for predicting viral microRNAs and microRNAs expressed by mammals.
Kumar
Shiva
S
GN Ramachandran Knowledge Center for Genome Informatics, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, CSIR, Delhi, India. shiva.kumar@igib.res.in
Ansari
Faraz A
FA
Scaria
Vinod
V
D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D039301:Computers, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D014780:Viruses / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics
D035683:MicroRNAs; D012367:RNA, Viral
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