Arenaviridae exoribonuclease presents genomic RNA edition capacity. Elsie Yekwa 1,2,4 , Chutima Aphibanthammakit 2,5 , Xavier Carnec 3 , Caroline Picard 3 , Bruno Canard 1,2,6 , Sylvain Baize 3 , François Ferron 1,2,6* 1 CNRS, AFMB UMR 7257, 13288, Marseille, France 2 Aix-Marseille Université, AFMB UMR 7257, 13288, Marseille, France 3 Unité de Biologie des Infections Virales Emergentes, Institut Pasteur; Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (INSERM, CNRS, ENS Lyon, Université Lyon I), Lyon, France 4 Current address : Division of Medical Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa 5 Current address : UMR 1208 Ingénierie des Agropolymères et Technologies Emergentes, Université de Montpellier- SupAgro-INRA-CIRAD, 2 Place Pierre Viala, Montpellier 34060 Cedex 1, France 6 European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany. *Corresponding author : [email protected] 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint (which this version posted February 11, 2019. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/541698 doi: bioRxiv preprint