Figure 2.

Potential cellular targets for each of the vmiRNAs. The two deduced mature vmiRNAs predicted from each precursor miRNA are shown. The mature vmiRNA sequences were individually searched against a database of human 3'UTRs using imperfect complementarity criteria as described in the text. The number of potential candidate cellular RNA targets is enumerated. Most of the cellular targets are incompletely characterized expressed sequence tag (EST) clones, with a subset of targets being known genes. For each predicted vmiRNA, we list two examples of known cellular gene targets at the right. A full list of targets is available upon request.