PMID- 23709495 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131220 LR - 20181202 IS - 1367-4811 (Electronic) IS - 1367-4803 (Linking) VI - 29 IP - 15 DP - 2013 Aug 1 TI - miRTCat: a comprehensive map of human and mouse microRNA target sites including non-canonical nucleation bulges. PG - 1898-9 LID - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt296 [doi] AB - SUMMARY: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate various biological functions by binding hundreds of transcripts to impart post-transcriptional repression. Recently, by applying a transcriptome-wide experimental method for identifying miRNA target sites (Ago HITS-CLIP), a novel non-canonical target site, named 'nucleation bulge', was discovered as widespread, functional and evolutionally conserved. Although such non-canonical nucleation bulges have been proven to be predictive by using 'pivot pairing rule' and sequence conservation, this approach has not been applied yet. To facilitate the functional studies of non-canonical miRNA targets, we implement miRTCat: a comprehensive searchable map of miRNA target sites, including non-canonical nucleation bulges, not only mapped in experimentally verified miRNA-bound regions but also predicted in all 3'-untranslated regions (3'-UTRs) derived from human and mouse ( approximately 15.6% as expected false-positive results). AVAILABILITY: http://ion.skku.edu/mirtcat. CONTACT: swchi@skku.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. FAU - Kim, Ka-Kyung AU - Kim KK AD - Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology, Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung Research Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. FAU - Ham, Juyoung AU - Ham J FAU - Chi, Sung Wook AU - Chi SW LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130524 PL - England TA - Bioinformatics JT - Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) JID - 9808944 RN - 0 (3' Untranslated Regions) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) SB - IM MH - *3' Untranslated Regions MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Conserved Sequence MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - MicroRNAs/*metabolism MH - Software EDAT- 2013/05/28 06:00 MHDA- 2013/12/21 06:00 CRDT- 2013/05/28 06:00 PHST- 2013/05/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/05/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/12/21 06:00 [medline] AID - btt296 [pii] AID - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt296 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Bioinformatics. 2013 Aug 1;29(15):1898-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt296. Epub 2013 May 24.