Avsunviroidae

Avsunviroidae

The Avsunviroidae are a family of viroids. At present three members are known of. They consist of RNA genomes between 246-375 nucleotides in length. They are single stranded covalent circles and have intramolecular base pairing. All members lack a central conserved region.

Replication

Key features of replication include no helper virus required and no proteins are encoded for. Unlike the other family of viroids, Pospiviroidae, Avsunviroidae are thought to replicate via a symmetrical rolling mechanism. It is thought the positive RNA strand acts as a template to form negative strands with the help of an enzyme thought to be RNA polymerase II. The negative RNA strands are then cleaved by ribozyme activity and circularises. A second rolling circle mechanism forms a positive strand which is also cleaved by ribozyme activity and then ligated to become circular.The site of replication is unknown but it is thought to be in the cytoplasm.

tructure

Predictions of structure have suggested that they exist either as rod-shaped molecules with regions of base pairing causing formation of some hair pin loops or have branched configurations.

*Family Avsunviroidae
**Genus "Avsunviroid"; type species: "Avocado sunblotch viroid"
**Genus "Pelamoviroid"; type species: "Peach latent mosaic viroid"
**Genus "Elaviroid";

References

Citation
title = MicrobiologyBytes: Viroids
url= http://www.microbiologybytes.com/virology/Viroids.html
access-date = 2007-03-16

Citation
title = Description of Plant Viruses- Avsunviroidae
url= http://www.dpvweb.net/notes/showfamily.php?family=Avsunviroidae
access-date = 2007-03-16


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