mir-625 microRNA precursor family

In molecular biology mir-625 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Many microRNAs play important roles in cancer development and progression.

mir-625
Identifiers
Symbolmir-625
RfamRF01017
miRBase familyMIPF0000534
Other data
RNA typemicroRNA
Domain(s)Eukaryota;
PDB structuresPDBe

mir-625 and gastric cancer

mir-625 has been shown to be down regulated in gastric cancers. This is important, as mir-625 is responsible for the regulation of metastasis in gastric tumour cells, and therefore downregulation of mir-625 results in increased metastasis.[1] mir-625 is thought to act by inhibiting the ILK protein.[1]

See also

References

  1. Wang M, Li C, Nie H, Lv X, Qu Y, Yu B, Su L, Li J, Chen X, Ju J, Yu Y, Yan M, Gu Q, Zhu Z, Liu B (July 2012). "Down-regulated miR-625 suppresses invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer by targeting ILK". FEBS Letters. 586 (16): 2382–8. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2012.05.050. PMID 22677169.

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