MIR171 clan

The MIR171 clan contains the RNA families MIR171_1 and MIR171_2. The following bioinformatic methods were used to confirm the relationship between these families: CMSEARCH, HMMER3 and PRC [1,2,3].

This clan contains 2 families and the total number of sequence regions in the clan is 4,474.

Literature references

1. Nawrocki EP, Kolbe DL, Eddy SR, Bioinformatics. 2009;25:1335-7.: Infernal 1.0: inference of RNA alignments. 19307242
2. Eddy SR, PLoS Comput Biol. 2008;4:e1000069.: A probabilistic model of local sequence alignment that simplifies statistical significance estimation. 18516236
3. Madera M, Bioinformatics. 2008;24:2630-2631.: Profile Comparer: a program for scoring and aligning profile hidden Markov models. 18845584

Members

This clan contains the following 2 member families:

MIR171_1 MIR171_2

This tool allows you to view the secondary structure images of two clan members side-by-side. Choose the family structures using the two drop-down menus below.

The table below shows the number of occurrences of each family throughout the sequence database. In brackets beside each number is the percentage of the total number of sequence hits for the clan that are represented by this family. The rightmost column provides a link to the alignments tab for each family.

Rfam family	Num. regions	Alignment
MIR171_2 (RF00692)	406 (9.1%)	View
MIR171_1 (RF00643)	4,068 (90.9%)	View