Plant virus movement proteins originated from jelly-roll capsid proteins.
Numerous, diverse plant viruses encode movement proteins (MPs) that aid the virus movement through plasmodesmata, the plant intercellular channels. MPs are essential for virus spread and propagation in distal tissues, and several unrelated MPs have been identified. The 30K superfamily of MPs (named...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002157 |