tRNA-Like Structures in Plant Viral RNAst+

This chapter summarizes the structural and functional mimicry of tRNA by plant viral tRNA-like structures, and emphasizes how studies on these structures were innovative in the domain of RNA folding and beneficial to the better understanding of canonical tRNA aminoacylation. It also discusses current ideas about the biological significance of these aminoacylatable structures as well as other viral RNA sequences mimicking tRNA, during the life cycles of their carrier viruses.