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A kissing-loop interaction in a hammerhead viroid RNA critical for its in vitro folding and in vivo viability.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jul 2005
Gago Selma, De la Peña Marcos, Flores Ricardo
Abstract excerpt
Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid (CChMVd) RNA (398-401 nucleotides) can form hammerhead ribozymes that play a functional role in its replication through a rolling-circle mechanism. In contrast to most other viroids, which adopt rod-like or quasi-rod-like secondary structures of minimal free energy, the computer-predicted conformations of CChMVd and Peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) RNAs are branched....
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