RNA secondary structure and nucleotide composition of the conserved hallmark sequence of Leishmania SIDER2 retroposons are essential for endonucleolytic cleavage and mRNA degradation

• Hiva Azizi,

  Affiliations Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU de Quebec Research Center-University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada, Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada

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• Tatiany P. Romão,

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães-FIOCRUZ, Recife, PE, Brazil

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• Karen Santos Charret,

  Affiliation Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Prasad K. Padmanabhan,

  Affiliations Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU de Quebec Research Center-University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada, Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada

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• Osvaldo P. de Melo Neto,

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães-FIOCRUZ, Recife, PE, Brazil

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• Michaela Müller-McNicoll,

  Affiliation RNA Regulation Group, Cluster of Excellence ‘Macromolecular Complexes’, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Frankfurt /Main, Germany

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• Barbara Papadopoulou

  * E-mail: barbara.papadopoulou@crchul.ulaval.ca

  Affiliations Research Center in Infectious Diseases, CHU de Quebec Research Center-University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada, Department of Microbiology-Infectious Disease and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University Laval, Quebec, QC. Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6697-9739

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