miR-101 microRNA precursor is a small non-coding RNA that regulates gene expression.

[2] This microRNA appears to be specific to the vertebrates and has now been predicted or confirmed in a wide range of vertebrate species (MIPF0000046).

The precursor microRNA is a stem-loop structure of about 70 nucleotides in length that is processed by the Dicer enzyme to form the 21-24 nucleotide mature microRNA.

In this case the mature sequence is excised from the 3' arm of the hairpin.

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