Reconceptualizing transcriptional slippage in plant RNA viruses.

ABSTRACT: RNA viruses have evolved sophisticated strategies to exploit the limited encoded information within their typically compact genomes. One of them, named transcriptional slippage (TS), is characterized by the appearance of indels in nascent viral RNAs, leading to changes in the open reading frame (ORF). Although members of unrelated viral families express key proteins via TS, the available information about this phenomenon is still limited. In potyvirids (members of the Potyviridae family), TS has been defined by the insertion of an additional A at A_n motifs (n ≥ 6) in newly synthesized transcripts at a low frequency, modulated by nucleotides flanking the A-rich motif. Here, by using diverse experimental approaches and a collection of plant/virus combinations, we dis

SUBMITTER: Valli AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481541 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature