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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 201, Issue 7, Pages 981-995Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201304003
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H018719/1]
- BBSRC [BB/H018719/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/K015869/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H018719/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K015869/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Plant viruses use movement proteins (MPs) to modify intercellular pores called plasmodesmata (PD) to cross the plant cell wall. Many viruses encode a conserved set of three MPs, known as the triple gene block (TGB), typified by Potato virus X (PVX). In this paper, using live-cell imaging of viral RNA (vRNA) and virus-encoded proteins, we show that the TGB proteins have distinct functions during movement. TGB2 and TGB3 established endoplasmic reticulum-derived membranous caps at PD orifices. These caps harbored the PVX replicase and nonencapsidated vRNA and represented PD-anchored viral replication sites. TGB1 mediated insertion of the viral coat protein into PD, probably by its interaction with the 5' end of nascent virions, and was recruited to PD by the TGB2/3 complex. We propose a new model of plant virus movement, which we term coreplicational insertion, in which MPs function to compartmentalize replication complexes at PD for localized RNA synthesis and directional trafficking of the virus between cells.
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