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PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 62-67Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/psb.7.1.18636
Keywords
plasmodesmata; reversibly glycosylated polypeptide; virus-induced gene silencing; tobacco mosaic virus; TMV movement protein
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- UCB Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
- NIH [GM45244]
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Maize and Arabidopsis thaliana class 1 reversibly glycosylated polypeptides (C1RGPs) are plasmodesmata-associated proteins. Previously, overexpression of Arabidopsis (C1)RGP AtRGP2 in Nicotiana tabacum was shown to reduce intercellular transport of photoassimilate, resulting in stunted, chlorotic plants, and inhibition of local cell-to-cell spread of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Here, we used virus induced gene silencing to examine the effects of reduced levels of (C1)RGPs in Nicotiana benthamiana. Silenced plants show wild-type growth and development. Intercellular transport in silenced plants was probed using fluorescently labeled TMV and its movement protein, P30. P30 shows increased cell-to-cell movement and TMV exhibited accelerated systemic spread compared with control plants. These results support the hypothesis that (C1)RGPs act to regulate intercellular transport via plasmodesmata.
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