Translational repression of viral RNAs supports persistent arbovirus infection in mosquitoes

Marc Talló-Parra; Mireia Puig-Torrents; Gemma Pérez-Vilaró; Sol Ribó Pons; Juana Díez

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003702

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Translational repression of viral RNAs supports persistent arbovirus infection in mosquitoes

Marc Talló-Parra ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Talló-Parra, Mireia Puig-Torrents

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Virology group, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain, noctuRNA Therapeutics SL, Barcelona, Spain
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Mireia Puig-Torrents ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Talló-Parra, Mireia Puig-Torrents

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Virology group, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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Gemma Pérez-Vilaró,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Virology group, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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Sol Ribó Pons,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Virology group, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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Juana Díez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: juana.diez@upf.edu

Affiliation Molecular Virology group, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9013-0751

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Translational repression of viral RNAs supports persistent arbovirus infection in mosquitoes

Marc Talló-Parra,
Mireia Puig-Torrents,
Gemma Pérez-Vilaró,
Sol Ribó Pons,
Juana Díez

Published: April 28, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003702

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