deltasatellite

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Noun

deltasatellite (plural deltasatellites)

  1. (biochemistry) A small non-coding DNA satellite about 700 nt long, associated with helper begomoviruses.
    Coordinate terms: alphasatellite, betasatellite
    • 2019, R. Vinoth Kumar, Geminiviruses: Impact, Challenges and Approaches, page 149:
      The purple and green parts of deltasatellite SCR represent the predicted conserved stem-loop and secondary stem-loop structures, respectively.
    • 2021, Encyclopedia of Virology, page 246:
      Deltasatellites do not encode any gene in their genomes. However, they share some common features.
    • 2023, Elvira Fiallo-Olivé, Jesús Navas-Catillo, “Molecular and Biological Characterization of a New WOrld Mon-/Bipartite Begomovirus/Deltasatellite Complex Infecting Corchorus siliquosus”, in Giuseppe Parrella, Paul Leslie Guy, Toufic Elbeaino, editors, Emerging and Reemerging Plant Viruses in a Context of Global Change:
      Several types of DNA satellites have been described to be associated with begomoviruses: betasatellites, alphasatellites, and deltasatellites.