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Characterization of the RNA motif responsible for the specific interaction of potato spindle tuber viroid RNA (PSTVd) and the tomato protein Virp1.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Oct 2003
Gozmanova Mariyana, Denti Michela Alessandra, Minkov Ivan Nikiforov, Tsagris Mina, Tabler Martin
Abstract excerpt
Viroids are small non-coding parasitic RNAs that are able to infect their host plants systemically. This circular naked RNA makes use of host proteins to accomplish its proliferation. Here we analyze the specific binding of the tomato protein Virp1 to the terminal right domain of potato spindle tuber viroid RNA (PSTVd). We find that two asymmetric internal loops within the PSTVd (+) RNA, each composed of the...
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