Organ-specific alterations in tobacco transcriptome caused by the PVX-derived P25 silencing suppressor transgene.

ABSTRACT:

Background

RNA silencing affects a broad range of regulatory processes in all eukaryotes ranging from chromatin structure maintenance to transcriptional and translational regulation and longevity of the mRNAs. Particularly in plants, it functions as the major defense mechanism against viruses. To counter-act this defense, plant viruses produce suppressors of RNA silencing (Viral suppressors of RNA silencing, VSRSs), which are essential for viruses to invade their specific host plants. Interactions of these VSRSs with the hosts' silencing pathways, and their direct and indirect interference with different cellular regulatory networks constitute one of the main lines of the molecular virus-host interactions. Here we have used a microarray approach to study the effects of the Potato v

SUBMITTER: Jada B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3562197 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature