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However, in one test, around 5% of randomly selected C. elegans genomic sequences were found to have the capacity to fold into plausible miRNA precursor hairpins [ 11 ] . This suggests that computational prediction of miRNAs based on presumed structure alone would have an unacceptably high false-positive rate.
Control probes lacking hairpins were constructed in two different ways: 1) Hairpins in the FVL probes were removed by simply deleting the non-target directed OCP sequence involved in hairpin formation.
Examination of these structures shows that they are principally composed of large α-helical hairpins that form coiled coil structures or stretches with successive shorter α-helices.
Beyond the village of Yangdi unfolds the uncanny scenery that prompted a Chinese poet more than a thousand years ago to write: “The river is a green silk belt, the mountains emerald hairpins.”
Real time ERCA genotyping reactions were performed using FVL and H63D probes with and without 3' hairpins (Figures 6, 7, 8and 9).