[EN] Mutation rates vary by orders of magnitude across biological systems, being higher for simpler genomes. The simplest known genomes correspond to viroids, subviral plant replicons constituted by circular non-coding ...
[EN] Infection by viroids, non-protein-coding circular RNAs, occurs with the accumulation of 21¿24 nt viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs)
with characteristic properties of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) associated to RNA ...
CARBONELL, ALBERTO; La Peña Del Rivero, Marcos De; FLORES PEDAUYE, RICARDO; Gago, Selma(Oxford University Press, 2006-11)
[EN] Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd) can form stable hammerhead structures in its (+) and (¿) strands. These ribozymes have the longest helices I reported in natural hammerheads, with that of the ELVd (+) hammerhead being ...
Garcia, M.L; Dal Bo, Elena; da Graca, John V.; Gago Zachert, Selma Persida; Hammond, J; Moreno, Pedro; Natsuaki, T; Pallás Benet, Vicente; Navarro Bohigues, José Antonio; Reyes, Carina; Luna, Gabriel Robles; Sasaya, Takahide; Tzanetakis, Loannis E.; Vaira, Anna Maria; Verbeek, Martin(Microbiology Society, 2017)
[EN] The Ophioviridae is a family of filamentous plant viruses, with single-stranded negative, and possibly ambisense, RNA genomes of 11.3-12.5 kb divided into 3-4 segments, each encapsidated separately. Virions are naked ...
Pallás Benet, Vicente; HERNANDEZ FORT, CARMEN; Marcos, Jose F.; Daròs, José-Antonio; Ambrós, Silvia; Navarro, Beatriz; NAVARRO BOHIGUES, JOSE ANTONIO; La Peña Del Rivero, Marcos De; Gago-Zachert, Selma; Gas, Maria E.; CARBONELL, ALBERTO; López Del Rincón, Carmelo; Martínez-De Alba, Angel E.; Di Serio, Francesco; Moreno, Pedro(Elsevier, 2022-04-15)
[EN] Ricardo Flores (1947-2020) focused his research on the identification, replication, pathogenesis, and evolution of viroids, the minimal non-protein-coding circular RNAs (250-400 nt) able to replicate and incite diseases ...
Carbonell Olivares, Alberto(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2008-05-07)
Los viroides, los agentes infecciosos conocidos más simples, están constituidos por una molécula circular de RNA monocatenario. A pesar de su pequeño tamaño (246-401 nt) y de no codificar proteínas, son capaces de replicarse ...
Di Serio, Francesco; Owens, Robert A.; Navarro, Beatriz; Serra, Pedro; Martínez De Alba, Angel Emilio; Delgado Villar, Sonia Guadalupe; CARBONELL, ALBERTO; Gago-Zachert, Selma(Elsevier, 2023-01-02)
[EN] Viroids are small, single-stranded, non-protein coding and circular RNAs able to infect host plants in the absence of any helper virus. They may elicit symptoms in their hosts, but the underlying molecular pathways ...
[EN] Viroids and viroid-like satellite RNAs from plants, and the human hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA share some properties that include small size, circularity and replication through a rolling-circle mechanism. Replication ...
Serra, Pedro; CARBONELL, ALBERTO; Navarro, Beatriz; Gago Zachert, Selma; Li, Shigang; Di Serio, Francesco; FLORES PEDAUYE, RICARDO(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-05-12)
[EN] Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd), like other members of family Avsunviroidae, replicates in plastids through a symmetric rolling-circle mechanism in which elongation of RNA strands is most likely catalyzed by a nuclear-encoded ...
Carbonell, Alberto; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; Gago Zachert, Selma Persida(Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy C - Option B, 2011)
[EN] Trans-cleaving hammerheads with discontinuous or extended stem I and with tertiary stabilizing motifs (TSMs) have been tested previously against short RNA substrates in vitro at low Mg2+ concentration. However, the ...
[EN] Viroids, due to their small size and lack of protein-coding capacity, must rely essentially on their hosts for replication. Intriguingly, viroids have evolved the ability to replicate in two cellular organella, the ...
FLORES PEDAUYE, RICARDO; Gago Zachert, Selma Persida; SERRA ALFONSO, PEDRO; Sanjuan Verdeguer, Rafael; ELENA FITO, SANTIAGO FCO(Annual Reviews, 2014)
[EN] Because RNA can be a carrier of genetic information and a biocatalyst, there
is a consensus that it emerged before DNA and proteins, which eventually
assumed these roles and relegated RNA to intermediate functions. ...
[EN] Viroids are small (246¿401 nucleotides), non-coding,
circular RNAs able to replicate autonomously in certain plants.
Viroids are classified into the families Pospiviroidae and
Avsunviroidae, whose members replicate ...