A noncanonical Pol III-dependent, Microprocessor-independent biogenesis pathway generates a germline enriched miRNA family
Rima M. Sakhawala, Reyhaneh Tirgar, Karl-Frédéric Vieux, Dustin Haskell, Guoyun Yu, Anna Zinovyeva, Katherine McJunkin
The paper identifies a noncanonical miRNA biogenesis pathway in C. elegans and humans that is Pol III-dependent, Microprocessor-independent, and Dicer-dependent, generating germline-enriched miRNAs like mir-1829 and miR-4521.
Genes & Development · Jul 14, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology