[HTML][HTML] Symptom recovery in virus-infected plants: revisiting the role of RNA silencing mechanisms

B Ghoshal, H Sanfaçon - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
The natural outcome of some plant–virus interactions is symptom recovery, which is
characterized by the emergence of asymptomatic leaves following a systemic symptomatic …

[HTML][HTML] The role of RNA interference (RNAi) in arbovirus-vector interactions

CD Blair, KE Olson - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
RNA interference (RNAi) was shown over 18 years ago to be a mechanism by which
arbovirus replication and transmission could be controlled in arthropod vectors. During the …

Production of functional small interfering RNAs by an amino-terminal deletion mutant of human Dicer

EM Kennedy, AW Whisnant… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Although RNA interference (RNAi) functions as a potent antiviral innate-immune response in
plants and invertebrates, mammalian somatic cells appear incapable of mounting an RNAi …

Plasmodesmata: channels for viruses on the move

M Heinlein - Plasmodesmata: Methods and Protocols, 2015 - Springer
The symplastic communication network established by plasmodesmata (PD) and connected
phloem provides an essential pathway for spatiotemporal intercellular signaling in plant …

Highly activated RNA silencing via strong induction of dicer by one virus can interfere with the replication of an unrelated virus

S Chiba, N Suzuki - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Viruses often coinfect single host organisms in nature. Depending on the combination of
viruses in such coinfections, the interplay between them may be synergistic, apparently …

[HTML][HTML] The chestnut blight fungus for studies on virus/host and virus/virus interactions: from a natural to a model host

A Eusebio-Cope, L Sun, T Tanaka, S Chiba… - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
The chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is an important plant pathogenic
ascomycete. The fungus hosts a wide range of viruses and now has been established as a …

The baculovirus antiapoptotic p35 protein functions as an inhibitor of the host RNA interference antiviral response

M Mehrabadi, M Hussain, L Matindoost… - Journal of virology, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT RNA interference (RNAi) is considered an ancient antiviral defense in diverse
organisms, including insects. Virus infections generate double-strand RNAs (dsRNAs) that …

Key importance of small RNA binding for the activity of a glycine-tryptophan (GW) motif-containing viral suppressor of RNA silencing

M Pérez-Cañamás, C Hernández - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
Viruses express viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) to counteract RNA silencing-
based host defenses. Although virtually all stages of the antiviral silencing pathway can be …

Analysis of geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins reveals a novel AL2 silencing suppressor activity

JN Jackel, RC Buchmann, U Singhal… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Both posttranscriptional and transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS and TGS, respectively)
participate in defense against the DNA-containing geminiviruses. As a countermeasure …

A critical domain of Sweet potato chlorotic fleck virus nucleotide‐binding protein (NaBp) for RNA silencing suppression, nuclear localization and viral pathogenesis

XG Deng, XJ Peng, F Zhu, YJ Chen… - Molecular plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
RNA silencing is an important mechanism of antiviral defence in plants. To counteract this
resistance mechanism, many viruses have evolved RNA silencing suppressors. In this study …