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Notes on mini- and microproteinsNotes on mini- and microproteins

• 2015: "MicroProteins (miPs) are short, usually single-domain proteins that, in analogy to miRNAs, heterodimerize with their targets and exert a dominant-negative effect." They "disrupt the formation of homodimeric, heterodimeric, or multimeric complexes". "The term ‘microProtein’ was coined due to their small size and negative regulatory similarity to miRNAs"

In ProteopediaIn Proteopedia

• There are about 60 entries found with a search for "miniprotein" (but no such category).
• Category:Microprotein has 3 entries, and Category:Hybrid microprotein has 1.