Table 1.

miRNA target prediction programs (PITA, FindTar3 and TargetScan) predicted 67 miRNAs to bind to CDC6 3′-UTR

Fifty-eight of the predictions were only for the long isoform-specific region, marked by the proximal polyA site (P-pA-Site) and the distal polyA site (D-pA-Site). The intersection of all three prediction sets gave rise to four common miRNAs (miR-25, miR-541, miR-92a and miR-92b) which were predicted to bind only to the long 3′-UTR. No common miRNA predictions were present only for the short 3′-UTR.