| mir-5 | |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | mir-5 |
| Rfam | RF00854 |
| miRBase family | 2 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | microRNA |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota; |
| PDB structures | PDBe |
In molecular biology mir-5 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. mir-5 has been implicated in regulation of VEGF in an experiment where a plasmid containing a cluster of mir-5, mir-10 and mir-7 was shown to down-regulate VEGF by 75%.[1] mir-5 in chicken has been implicated in targeting genes involved in metabolism.[2]