Among 2,654 mature entries of Homo sapiens in miRBase Release 22.1, 479 of them could target SARS-CoV-2 genes (Supplemental Files-human to virus). While Envelope and ORF6 genes were targeted by single miRNAs, ORF1ab appeared to be the target of 369 different human mature miRNAs (Table 2).
Among the 2654 human mature miRNAs, 444 miRNAs were identified with direct binding site on different positions along with the coronavirus 2 reference genome (Table S1).
We identified 1,018 miRNAs to target SARS-CoV-2 genes, among which 98 miRNAs are predicted to target SARS-CoV-2 genes uniquely when compared with other viruses studied here (Supplementary Table S6).