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  1. Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  2. Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

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  3. A life of research on circular RNAs and ribozymes: towards the origin of viroids, deltaviruses and life

    Article • Virus Research, June 2022, Elsevier

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  4. In memoriam of Ricardo Flores: The career, achievements, and legacy of an inspirational plant virologist

    Article • Virus Research, April 2022, Elsevier

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  5. Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

    Article • Nature, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

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  6. Small Self‐Cleaving Ribozymes in the Genomes of Vertebrates

    Article • August 2021, Wiley

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  7. Hepatitis delta virus-like circular RNAs from diverse metazoans encode conserved hammerhead ribozymes

    Article • Virus Evolution, January 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  8. A Singular and Widespread Group of Mobile Genetic Elements: RNA Circles with Autocatalytic Ribozymes

    Article • Cells, November 2020, MDPI AG

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  9. Cloning and Detection of Genomic Retrozymes and Their circRNA Intermediates

    Article • July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

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  10. Small circRNAs with self-cleaving ribozymes are highly expressed in diverse metazoan transcriptomes

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, March 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  11. Simultaneous Boron Ion‐Channel/Growth Factor Receptor Activation for Enhanced Vascularization

    Article • Advanced Biosystems, October 2018, Wiley

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  12. Circular RNAs Biogenesis in Eukaryotes Through Self-Cleaving Hammerhead Ribozymes

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

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  13. Genomic Analysis of Terpene Synthase Family and Functional Characterization of Seven Sesquiterpene Synthases from Citrus sinensis

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, August 2017, Frontiers

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  14. Circular RNAs with hammerhead ribozymes encoded in eukaryotic genomes: The enemy at home

    Article • RNA Biology, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

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  15. Erratum to: Retrozymes are a unique family of non-autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead ribozymes that propagate in plants through circular RNAs

    Article • February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

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  16. The Hammerhead Ribozyme: A Long History for a Short RNA

    Article • Molecules, January 2017, MDPI AG

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  17. Chrysanthemum Chlorotic Mottle Viroid

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

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  18. Retrozymes are a unique family of non-autonomous retrotransposons with hammerhead ribozymes that propagate in plants through circular RNAs

    Article • June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

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  19. Eukaryotic Penelope-Like Retroelements Encode Hammerhead Ribozyme Motifs

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  20. Crystal Structure of Vaccinia Virus mRNA Capping Enzyme Provides Insights into the Mechanism and Evolution of the Capping Apparatus

    Article • Structure, March 2014, Elsevier

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  21. The ubiquitous hammerhead ribozyme

    Article • RNA, March 2012, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  22. Intronic hammerhead ribozymes in mRNA biogenesis

    Article • Biological Chemistry, January 2012, De Gruyter

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  23. Characterization of Hammerhead Ribozyme Reactions

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

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  24. Ubiquitous presence of the hammerhead ribozyme motif along the tree of life

    Article • RNA, August 2010, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  25. Intronic hammerhead ribozymes are ultraconserved in the human genome

    Article • EMBO Reports, July 2010, Wiley

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  26. The Major Specificity-Determining Amino Acids of the Tomato Cf-9 Disease Resistance Protein Are at Hypervariable Solvent-Exposed Positions in the Central Leucine-Rich Repeats

    Article • Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, October 2009, Scientific Societies

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  27. Viroid Replication: Rolling-Circles, Enzymes and Ribozymes

    Article • Viruses, September 2009, MDPI AG

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  28. Three-way RNA junctions with remote tertiary contacts: A recurrent and highly versatile fold

    Article • RNA, September 2009, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  29. Pepper chat fruit viroid: Biological and molecular properties of a proposed new species of the genus Pospiviroid

    Article • Virus Research, September 2009, Elsevier

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  30. Structure–function analysis of the ribozymes of chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid: a loop–loop interaction motif conserved in most natural hammerheads

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  31. Structural insights into the mechanism and evolution of the vaccinia virus mRNA cap N7 methyl-transferase

    Article • The EMBO Journal, November 2007, Wiley

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  32. Effects of the trinucleotide preceding the self-cleavage site on eggplant latent viroid hammerheads: differences in co- and post-transcriptional self-cleavage may explain the lack of trinucleotide AUC in most natural hammerheads

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, October 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  33. A kissing-loop interaction in a hammerhead viroid RNA critical for its in vitro folding and in vivo viability

    Article • RNA, May 2005, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  34. Viroids: the minimal non-coding RNAs with autonomous replication

    Article • FEBS Letters, April 2004, Wiley

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  35. Peripheral regions of natural hammerhead ribozymes greatly increase their self-cleavage activity

    Article • The EMBO Journal, October 2003, Wiley

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  36. Chrysanthemum Chlorotic Mottle Viroid RNA: Dissection of the Pathogenicity Determinant and Comparative Fitness of Symptomatic and Non-symptomatic Variants

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, August 2002, Elsevier

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  37. In vivo generation of hybrids between different species of RNA phages

    Article • Journal of General Virology, May 2002, Society for General Microbiology

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  38. Phylogenetic Analysis of Viroid and Viroid-Like Satellite RNAs from Plants: A Reassessment

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, August 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Santiago F Elena, Marcos de la Pena

  39. An Extra Nucleotide in the Consensus Catalytic Core of a Viroid Hammerhead Ribozyme

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2001, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

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  40. Hammerhead Ribozyme Structure and Function in Plant RNA Replication

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

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  41. EFFECT OF DELETERIOUS MUTATION-ACCUMULATION ON THE FITNESS OF RNA BACTERIOPHAGE MS2

    Article • Evolution, April 2000, Wiley

    Professor Santiago F Elena, Marcos de la Pena

  42. EFFECT OF DELETERIOUS MUTATION-ACCUMULATION ON THE FITNESS OF RNA BACTERIOPHAGE MS2

    Article • Evolution, January 2000, The Society for the Study of Evolution

    Professor Santiago F Elena, Marcos de la Pena

  43. Mapping the molecular determinant of pathogenicity in a hammerhead viroid: A tetraloop within the in vivo branched RNA conformation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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  44. Viroids with Hammerhead Ribozymes: Some Unique Structural and Functional Aspects with Respect to Other Members of the Group

    Article • Biological Chemistry, July 1999, De Gruyter

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  45. Molecular Biology of Viroids

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

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