Viroid RNA systemic spread may depend on the interaction of a 71-nucleotide bulged hairpin with the host protein VirP1

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FIGURE 3.
FIGURE 3.

VirP1 binds to a right-hand fragment of HSVd. (A) An HSVd RNA monomer, HSV(Sma), and two HSVd RNA subfragments, L190 and R110, were tested. (B) Results of the β-gal assay. The three RNA hybrids, MS2-HSV(Sma), MS2-L190, and MS2-R110, were combined with the protein hybrids AD and AD-VirP1ct.

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