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ArticleJournal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal2018

Compactness of viral genomes: effect of disperse and localized random mutations.

Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Cristian Micheletti, Rudolf Podgornik, Luca Tubiana

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Article in Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Anže Lošdorfer BožičDepartment of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0001-6304-6637
Cristian MichelettiSISSA, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1022-1638
Rudolf PodgornikDepartment of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Luca TubianaFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Jožef Stefan Institute · SIScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati · ITUniversity of Ljubljana · SIUniversity of Vienna · AT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomes of single-stranded RNA viruses have evolved to optimize several concurrent properties. One of them is the architecture of their genomic folds, which must not only feature precise structural elements at specific positions, but also allow for overall spatial compactness. The latter was shown to be disrupted by random synonymous mutations, a disruption which can consequently negatively affect genome encapsidation. In this study, we use three mutation schemes with different degrees of locality to mutate the genomes of phage MS2 and Brome Mosaic virus in order to understand the observed sensitivity of the global compactness of their folds. We find that mutating local stretches of their genomes' sequence or structure is less disruptive to their compactness compared to inducing randomly-distributed mutations. Our findings are indicative of a mechanism for the conservation of compactness acting on a global scale of the genomes, and have several implications for understanding the interplay between local and global architecture of viral RNA genomes.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationBromovirusGenome, ViralLevivirusRNARNA

Identifiers

PMID29334364
PMCPMC7104904
OpenAlexW2782647707

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