Rishishwar Rashmi, Dasgupta Indranil
Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021 India.
Virusdisease. 2019 Mar;30(1):58-65. doi: 10.1007/s13337-018-0418-8. Epub 2018 Jan 16.
In plants, RNA silencing provides a major line of defence against viruses. This antiviral immunity involves production of virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) and results in specific silencing of viruses by vsiRNAs-guided effector complexes. As a counterattack against RNA silencing, many plant viruses encode suppressors of RNA silencing called viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs), which interfere with the silencing pathway by various mechanisms. This review describes various methods that are being used to characterize viral proteins for suppressor function, VSRs found in geminiviruses and associated DNA satellites and their mechanisms of action.
在植物中,RNA沉默是抵御病毒的主要防线。这种抗病毒免疫涉及病毒衍生的小干扰RNA(vsiRNA)的产生,并通过vsiRNA引导的效应复合物导致病毒的特异性沉默。作为对RNA沉默的反击,许多植物病毒编码RNA沉默抑制子,称为病毒RNA沉默抑制子(VSR),它们通过各种机制干扰沉默途径。本综述描述了用于鉴定具有抑制功能的病毒蛋白的各种方法、双生病毒及其相关DNA卫星中发现的VSR及其作用机制。