04/25/2024
Research Article
Viral movement without viral movement proteins
The spread of viral genomes into adjacent cells and the plant vascular system is typically enabled by viral movement proteins. Xiaobao Ying, Sayanta Bera, Anne Simon and co-workers show that umbravirus-like RNA viruses can spread systemically without encoding any movement proteins, via the interaction of viral replication and capsid proteins with host protein PHLOEM PROTEIN 2.
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