A sentisitive method for the quantification of virion-sense and complementary-sense DNA strands of circular single-stranded DNA viruses

Circular singlestranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes. High recombination and mutation rates have conferred these viruses with an evolutionary potential that has facilitated their emergence. Their damaging effects on livestock (circoviruses) and crops (gemin...

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Autores: Rodríguez-Negrete, Edgar A., Sánchez-Campos, Sonia, Cañizares, M. Carmen, Navas-Castillo, Jesús, Moriones, Enrique, Bejarano, Eduardo R., Grande-Pérez, Ana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/112436
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/112436
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:DNA
viruses
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Sumario:Circular singlestranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are the smallest viruses known to infect eukaryotes. High recombination and mutation rates have conferred these viruses with an evolutionary potential that has facilitated their emergence. Their damaging effects on livestock (circoviruses) and crops (geminiviruses and nanoviruses), and the ubiquity of anelloviruses in human populations and other mammalian species, have resulted in increased interest in better understanding their epidemiology and infection mechanisms. Circular ssDNA viral replication involves the synthesis of dsDNA intermediates containing complementarysense (CS) and virionsense (VS) strands. Precise quantification of VS and CS accumulation during viral infections can provide insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying viral replication and the host invasion process.