Article
In silico predicted robustness of viroid RNA secondary structures. II. Interaction between mutation pairs.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2006
Sanjuán Rafael, Forment Javier, Elena Santiago F
Abstract excerpt
Viroids are plant subviral pathogens whose genomes are constituted by a single-stranded and covalently closed small RNA molecule that does not encode for any protein. Most of the 29 described viroid species fold into a rodlike or quasi-rodlike structure, whereas a few of them fold as highly branched structures. In a previous study, we used RNA thermodynamic secondary structure prediction algorithms to compare the...
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