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ArticleThe EMBO journal2007

Tertiary structure and function of an RNA motif required for plant vascular entry to initiate systemic trafficking.

Xuehua Zhong, Xiaorong Tao, Jesse Stombaugh, Neocles Leontis, Biao Ding

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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5 authors.

Xuehua ZhongDepartment of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Xiaorong Tao
Jesse Stombaugh
Neocles Leontis
Biao Ding

Funding

SELECTION AND ANALYSIS OF STABLE RNA 3 WAY JUNCTIONSR15GM055898 · NIGMS · BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LEONTIS, NEOCLES B · 1997 to 2010
$680k
NIGMS NIH HHS 2R15GM055898-03NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM055898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vascular entry is a decisive step for the initiation of long-distance movement of infectious and endogenous RNAs, silencing signals and developmental/defense signals in plants. However, the mechanisms remain poorly understood. We used Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) as a model to investigate the direct role of the RNA itself in vascular entry. We report here the identification of an RNA motif that is required for PSTVd to traffic from nonvascular into the vascular tissue phloem to initiate systemic infection. This motif consists of nucleotides U/C that form a water-inserted cis Watson-Crick/Watson-Crick base pair flanked by short helices that comprise canonical Watson-Crick/Watson-Crick base pairs. This tertiary structural model was inferred by comparison with X-ray crystal structures of similar motifs in rRNAs and is supported by combined mutagenesis and covariation analyses. Hydration pattern analysis suggests that water insertion induces a widened minor groove conducive to protein and/or RNA interactions. Our model and approaches have broad implications to investigate the RNA structural motifs in other RNAs for vascular entry and to study the basic principles of RNA structure-function relationships.

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Base SequenceNucleic Acid ConformationPlantsBiological TransportDNA Mutational AnalysisModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMolecular StructureNicotianaPlant VirusesRNAWaterRNAWater

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PMID17660743
PMCPMC1952227

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