TY - JOUR
T1 - Interference with initial and short-distance cell-to-cell movement of Tomato mosaic virus in transgenic tobacco plants with high expression of BcKELP, a virus movement protein interactor from Brassica campestris
AU - Sasaki, Nobumitsu
AU - Odawara, Tatsuro
AU - Nagai, Shoko
AU - Yoshimura, Kazuma
AU - Matsushita, Yasuhiko
AU - Nyunoya, Hiroshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge Dr. Tetsuro Meshi and Dr. Yuichiro Watanabe for providing us with piL.G3 and pTocJ/GFP, respectively. We also thank Yuko Takahashi for technical assistance. This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (to H.N., nos. 15028206 and 17580038 ), a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (to Y.M., no. 15580031 ), Grants-in-Aid for Encouragement of Scientists (B) (to Y.M., no. 13760035 , and to N.S., no. 20780030 ) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, and Grants-in-Aid for Encouragement of Scientists (A) (to Y.M., no. 11760033 ) and Young Scientists (start-up) (to N.S., no. 18880010 ) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - A putative transcriptional coactivator KELP of . Arabidopsis thaliana and its homolog of . Brassica campestris (BcKELP) can bind the movement protein (MP) of . Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) . in vitro and, when transiently over-expressed, interfere with the cell-to-cell movement of ToMV. In this study, we generated and selected transgenic . Nicotiana tabacum lines expressing BcKELP constitutively and examined their resistance to ToMV. We also investigated changes in MP localization in initially infected . Nicotiana benthamiana cells expressing BcKELP transiently. Our results indicate that a high expression of BcKELP can reduce viral initial and short-distance movement probably through disturbance of plasmodesmal targeting of MP.
AB - A putative transcriptional coactivator KELP of . Arabidopsis thaliana and its homolog of . Brassica campestris (BcKELP) can bind the movement protein (MP) of . Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) . in vitro and, when transiently over-expressed, interfere with the cell-to-cell movement of ToMV. In this study, we generated and selected transgenic . Nicotiana tabacum lines expressing BcKELP constitutively and examined their resistance to ToMV. We also investigated changes in MP localization in initially infected . Nicotiana benthamiana cells expressing BcKELP transiently. Our results indicate that a high expression of BcKELP can reduce viral initial and short-distance movement probably through disturbance of plasmodesmal targeting of MP.
KW - Cell-to-cell movement
KW - Movement protein
KW - Plant protection
KW - Plasmodesmal targeting
KW - Tomato mosaic virus
KW - Transcriptional coactivator
KW - Transgenic tobacco
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2012.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.pmpp.2012.01.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84856791950
SN - 0885-5765
VL - 78
SP - 38
EP - 44
JO - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
JF - Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
ER -