Mir-BART2 microRNA precursor family

The mir-BART2 microRNA precursor found in Human herpesvirus 4 (Epstein–Barr virus) and Cercopithicine herpesvirus 15. mir-BART2 is expressed in all stages of infection but expression is significantly elevated in the lytic stage. In Epstein-Barr virus, mir-BART2 is found in the intronic regions of the BART (Bam HI-A region rightward transcript) gene whose function is unknown. mir-BART2 is thought to target the virally encoded DNA polymerase BALF5 for degradation. The mature sequence is excised from the 5' arm of the hairpin.^[1]

mir-BART2 microRNA precursor family
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of mir-BART2
Identifiers
Symbol	mir-BART2
Rfam	RF00364
miRBase	MI0001068
Other data
RNA type	Gene; miRNA
Domain(s)	Viruses
GO	GO:0035195 GO:0035068
SO	SO:0001244
PDB structures	PDBe