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Massive production of small RNAs from a non-coding region of Cauliflower mosaic virus in plant defense and viral counter-defense.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2011
Blevins Todd, Rajeswaran Rajendran, Aregger Michael, Borah Basanta K, Schepetilnikov Mikhail, Baerlocher Loïc, Farinelli Laurent, Meins Frederick, Hohn Thomas, Pooggin Mikhail M
Abstract excerpt
To successfully infect plants, viruses must counteract small RNA-based host defense responses. During infection of Arabidopsis, Cauliflower mosaic pararetrovirus (CaMV) is transcribed into pregenomic 35S and subgenomic 19S RNAs. The 35S RNA is both reverse transcribed and also used as an mRNA with highly structured 600 nt leader. We found that this leader region is transcribed into long sense- and antisense-RNAs...
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