Zhai, Jixian; Bischof, Sylvain; Wang, Haifeng; Feng, Suhua; Lee, Tzuu-Fen; Teng, Chong; Chen, Xinyuan; Park, Soo Young; Liu, Linshan; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Liu, Wanlu; Henderson, Ian R; Meyers, Blake C.; Ausin, Israel; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2015-10-08)
[EN] RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana is driven by the plant-specific RNA Polymerase IV (Pol IV). It has been assumed that a Pol IV transcript can give rise to multiple 24-nt small interfering RNAs ...
Dobón Alonso, Albor; Wulff, Brande B Hertel; Canet Perez, Juan Vicente; Fort Rausell, Patrocinio; Tornero Feliciano, Pablo(Public Library of Science, 2013-01)
Resistance to biotrophic pathogens is largely dependent on the hormone salicylic acid (SA) while jasmonic acid (JA) regulates resistance against necrotrophs. JA negatively regulates SA and is, in itself, negatively regulated ...
Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Liu, Wanlu; Kuo, Peggy Hsuanyu; Feng, Suhua; Ghoshal, Basudev; Gardiner, Jason; Zhao, Jenny Miao-Chi; Park, Soo Young; Chory, Joanne; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2019-02-21)
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The RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway in plants controls gene expression via cytosine DNA methylation. The ability to manipulate RdDM would shed light on the mechanisms and applications of DNA methylation ...
Lafforgue, Guillaume; Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Public Library of Science, 2011-03-15)
[EN] Understanding the evolution of virulence for RNA viruses is essential for developing appropriate control strategies.
Although it has been usually assumed that virulence is a consequence of within-host replication of ...
Martinez, Fernando; Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio(Genetics Society of America, 2011-07)
[EN] The tremendous evolutionary potential of RNA viruses allows them to thrive despite host defense mechanisms and endows them with properties such as emergence, host switching, and virulence. The frequency of mutant ...
Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Martinez, Fernando; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Royal Society, The, 2012-04-07)
[EN] We propose and study nonlinear mathematical models describing the intracellular time
dynamics of viral RNA accumulation for positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses. Our
models consider different replication modes ...
Lafforgue, Guillaume; Martínez, Fernando; Niu, Qi Wen; Chua, Nam Hai; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(American Society for Microbiology, 2013-07)
[EN] A drawback of recent antiviral therapies based on the transgenic expression of artificial microRNAs (amiRs) is the ease with
which viruses generate escape mutations. Here, we show two alternative strategies for ...
De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Martinez Garcia, Fernando; Hillung, Julia; Cuevas Torrijos, Jose Manuel; Gerrish, Philip J.; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(American Society for Microbiology, 2012)
[EN] A potential drawback of recent antiviral therapies based on the transgenic expression of artificial microRNAs is the ease with which viruses may generate escape mutations. Using a variation of the classic Luria-Delbruck ...
Zhong, Xuehua; Du, Jiamu; Hale, Christopher J; Gallego Bartolomé, Javier; Feng, Suhua; Vashisht, Ajay A.; Chory, Joanne; Wohlschlegel, James A.; Patel, Dinshaw J.; Jacobsen, Steven E.(Elsevier, 2014-05-26)
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DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic generegulation mechanism. DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLTRANSFERASE (DRM) is a key de novo methyltransferase in plants, but how DRM acts mechanistically is poorly understood. ...
Bedhomme, Stephanie; Lafforgue, Guillaume; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-05)
[EN] For multihost pathogens, adaptation to multiple hosts has important implications for both applied and basic research. At the applied level, it is one of the main factors determining the probability and the severity ...
Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Public Library of Science, 2011)
[EN] Empirical observations and theoretical studies suggest that viruses may use different replication strategies to amplify their genomes, which impact the dynamics of mutation accumulation in viral populations and ...
Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Garcia-Rico, Eduardo; Alvarez, Susana; Alvarez, Rosana; Yu, Xiang; Rodriguez, Isabel; Carregal-Romero, Susana; Villanueva, Carlos; Garcia-Algar, Manuel; Rivera-Gil, Pilar; de Lera, Angel R.; Parak, Wolfgang J.; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon A.(BioMed Central, 2014-09-16)
[EN] Background: Porous silicon particles (PSiPs) have been used extensively as drug delivery systems, loaded with chemical species for disease treatment. It is well known from silicon producers that silicon is characterized ...
Lafforgue, Guillaume; Martínez García, Fernando; Sardanyes Cayuela, Jose; De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Niu, Qi-Wen; Lin, Shih-Shun; Sole, Ricard V.; Chua, Nam-Hai; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(American Society for Microbiology, 2011)
A biotechnological application of artificial microRNAs (amiRs) is the generation of plants that are resistant to virus infection. This resistance has proven to be highly effective and sequence specific. However, before ...
Macia, Javier; Sole, Ricard V.; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Wiley, 2012-02)
[EN] Epistasis refers to the nonadditive interactions between genes in determining phenotypes. Considerable efforts have shown that, even for a given organism, epistasis may vary both in intensity and sign. Recent comparative ...
Elena Fito, Santiago Fco; Bedhomme, Stephanie; Carrasco, Purificación; Cuevas, Jose M.; De la Iglesia Jordán, Francisca; Lafforgue, Guillaume; Lalic, Jasna; Prosper Pontones, Angels; Tromas, Nicolas; Zwart, Mark Peter(American Phytopathological Society, 2011-03)
[EN] Over the years, agriculture across the world has been compromised by a succession of devastating epidemics caused by new viruses that spilled over from reservoir species or by new variants of classic viruses that ...
Martinez Garcia, Fernando; Lafforgue, Guillaume; Morelli, M.; González-Candelas, F.; CHUA, N.H.; Daros Arnau, Jose Antonio; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-11)
[EN] Plant artificial micro-RNAs (amiRs) have been engineered to target viral genomes and induce their degradation. However, the exceptional evolutionary plasticity of RNA viruses threatens the durability of the resistance ...