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{{Short description|MicroRNA}}
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'''MicroRNA 6087''' is a [[miRNA]] that in humans is encoded by the MIR6087 [[gene]].
<ref name="entrez">
{{cite web
| title = Entrez Gene: MicroRNA 6087
| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/102464835
| accessdate = 2016-11-16
}}</ref>
==Function==
[[MicroRNA|microRNAs]] (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding [[RNA|RNAs]] that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of [[gene expression]] in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of [[mRNA]]s. miRNAs are transcribed by [[RNA polymerase II]] as part of capped and [[Polyadenylation|polyadenylated]] primary transcripts (pri-miRNAs) that can be either protein-coding or non-coding.
The primary transcript is cleaved by the [[Drosha ribonuclease III]] enzyme to produce an approximately 70-nt stem-loop precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA), which is further cleaved by the cytoplasmic [[Dicer ribonuclease]] to generate the mature miRNA and antisense miRNA star (miRNA*) products.
The mature miRNA is incorporated into a [[RNA-induced silencing complex]] (RISC), which recognizes target mRNAs through imperfect base pairing with the miRNA and most commonly results in translational inhibition or destabilization of the target mRNA. The [[RefSeq]] represents the predicted microRNA stem-loop.
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