Transcriptional reprogramming caused by the geminivirus Tomato yellow leaf curl virus in local or systemic infections in Nicotiana benthamiana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Viruses have evolved to create a cellular environment permissive for viral replication in susceptible hosts. Possibly both enabling and resulting from these virus-triggered changes, infected hosts undergo a dramatic transcriptional reprogramming, the analysis of which can shed light on the molecular processes underlying the outcome of virus-host interactions. The study of the transcriptional changes triggered by the plant DNA viruses geminiviruses is potentially hampered by the low representation of infected cells in the total population, a situation that becomes extreme in those cases, like that of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), in which the virus is restricted to phloem companion cells.

Results

In order to gain insight into how different the transcriptio

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611054 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature