TABLE 2.

Summary of EBOV vncRNA findings

Characteristic	Presence or absencea in:
	Genuine miRNAs	EBOV ncRNAs
Biogenesis
Drosha processing	✓	X
Dicer processing	✓	X
Function
RISC loading	✓	X
Transcript silencing	✓	X
Translational repression	✓	X
Biochemistry
5′-Phosphate	✓	✓
3′-OH	✓	✓
22-nt length	✓	Variable

^a✓, presence; X, absence.