Minoia, Sofia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-03-31)
Los viroides, los agentes infecciosos más simples de la escala biológica, están constituidos por
una molécula circular de RNA monocatenario de aproximadamente 250-400 nucleótios (nt) que no
codifica proteína alguna. A ...
[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 ...
Minoia, Sofia; Navarro, B; Delgado Villar, Sonia Guadalupe; Di Serio, Francesco; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-02-27)
[EN] While biogenesis of viroid RNAs is well-known, how they decay is restricted to data involving host RNA silencing. Here we report an alternative degradation pathway operating on potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd), the ...
Minoia, Sofia; Navarro, B.; Covelli, L.; Barone, M.; Garcia-Becedas, M. T.; Ragozzino, A.; Alioto, D.; Flores Pedauye, Ricardo; DI SERIO, F(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-03)
Cherry trees from Spain affected by cherry leaf scorch (CLS), a fungal disease proposed to be caused by Apiognomonia erythrostoma, show symptoms (translucent-chlorotic leaf spots evolving into rusty areas) very similar to ...
[EN] The discovery of viroids about 45 years ago heralded a revolution in Biology: small RNAs comprising around 350 nt were found to be able to replicate autonomously and to incite diseases in certain plants without encoding ...
[EN] As a consequence of two unique physical properties, small size and circularity, viroid RNAs do not code for proteins and thus depend on RNA sequence/structural motifs for interacting with host proteins that mediate ...