Soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) 19K protein belongs to a class of cysteine rich proteins that suppress RNA silencing. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Amino acid sequence analyses indicate that the Soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) 19K protein is a cysteine-rich protein (CRP) and shares sequence homology with CRPs derived from furo-, hordei-, peclu- and tobraviruses. Since the hordei- and pecluvirus CRPs were shown to be pathogenesis factors and/or suppressors of RNA silencing, experiments were conducted to determine if the SBWMV 19K CRP has similar activities. The SBWMV 19K CRP was introduced into the Potato virus X (PVX) viral vector and inoculated to tobacco plants. The SBWMV 19K CRP aggravated PVX-induced symptoms and restored green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression to GFP silenced tissues. These observations indicate that the SBWMV 19K CRP is a pathogenicity determinant and a suppressor of RNA silencing.

published proceedings

  • Virol J

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Te, J., Melcher, U., Howard, A., & Verchot-Lubicz, J.

citation count

  • 30

complete list of authors

  • Te, Jeannie||Melcher, Ulrich||Howard, Amanda||Verchot-Lubicz, Jeanmarie

publication date

  • March 2005