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JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 4, Pages 326-330Publisher
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s10327-008-0099-z
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protoplast; silencing suppressor; BY-2; Nicotiana tabacum; Nicotiana benthamiana
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RNA silencing is a sequence-specific defense mechanism against viruses. As a counterdefense, viruses evolved silencing suppressors to interfere with host silencing. In analyses using protoplasts prepared from cultured cells (BY-2) and mesophyll cells of Nicotiana tabacum and N. benthamiana, viral suppressors differentially functioned in different cell types. This phenomenon has not been discussed in earlier papers on protoplast systems and RNA silencing. In investigations of the cellular activities of viral suppressors and their role in the RNA-silencing pathway, assays with host protoplasts offer many advantages and can complement other in planta assays such as Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression.
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