The West Nile virus genome harbors essential riboregulatory elements with conserved and host-specific functional roles
Huston N, Tsao L, Brackney D, Pyle A. The West Nile virus genome harbors essential riboregulatory elements with conserved and host-specific functional roles. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2024, 121: e2312080121. PMID: 38985757, PMCID: PMC11260092, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312080121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWest Nile virus genomeWest Nile virusPositive-sense RNA virusesFunctional roleArthropod cell linesRiboregulatory elementsGenome foldingFlaviviral genomeRNA genomeIncreasing global threatVirus genomeGenomeRNA virusesStructural homologyHost-dependentSecondary structureLack of effective therapeuticsFunctional validationLocked nucleic acidStructural insightsRNA drugsCell linesArthropod-borneNucleic acidsAntisense locked nucleic acidHighly Reactive Group I Introns Ubiquitous in Pathogenic Fungi
Liu T, Pyle A. Highly Reactive Group I Introns Ubiquitous in Pathogenic Fungi. Journal Of Molecular Biology 2024, 436: 168513. PMID: 38447889, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168513.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGroup I intronsAntifungal drug targetsRNA metabolismPathogenic fungiPhylogeny of fungiSelf-splicing intronsDrug targetsSystemic fungal infectionsGenetic hotspotsRiboregulatory elementsMitochondrial intronsMitochondrial genesBioinformatics pipelineC. aurisCandida aurisRelevant fungiRNA elementsAspergillus fumigatusC. albicansHousekeeping genesCandida albicansNoncoding transcriptomeCryptococcus neoformansFungal infectionsFungi
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