A novel aspect of the information content of viroids.
Viroids were found to exhibit a structural periodicity characterized by repeat units of a length of 11 or 12 (potato spindle tuber viroid group and coconut cadang-cadang viroid), 60 (apple scar skin viroid) and 80 (avocado sunblotch viroid) nucleotide residues, respectively. It is suggested that structural periodicity of viroids is an indication of their protein-binding ability.
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Institute of Plant Physiology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged.
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D001483:Base Sequence; D005814:Genes, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D013045:Species Specificity; D014772:Viroids / Q000235:genetics*
D012367:RNA, Viral