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WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 402-414Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.42
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Viruses commonly exploit or modify some aspect of tRNA biology. Large DNA viruses, especially bacteriophages, phycodnaviruses, and mimiviruses, produce their own tRNAs, apparently to adjust translational capacity during infection. Retroviruses recruit specific host tRNAs for use in priming the reverse transcription of their genome. Certain positive-strand RNA plant viral genomes possess 3'-tRNA-like structures (TLSs) that are built quite differently from authentic tRNAs, and yet efficiently recapitulate several properties of tRNAs. The structures and roles of these TLSs are discussed, emphasizing the variety in both structure and function. (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs RNA 2010 1 402-414
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