The Tombusvirus-encoded P19: from irrelevance to elegance

HB Scholthof - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006 - nature.com
Since its discovery in the late 1980s, the status of the Tombusvirus-encoded p19 protein
(P19) changed from being thought obsolete to its identification a decade later as an …

Tomato bushy stunt virus: a resilient model system to study virus–plant interactions

Y Yamamura, HB Scholthof - Molecular plant pathology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Taxonomy: Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV)(Fig. 1) is the type species of the plant‐infecting
Tombusvirus genus in the family Tombusviridae. Physical properties: TBSV virions are non …

Single-chain antibodies against a plant viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase confer virus resistance

KJ Boonrod, D Galetzka, PD Nagy, U Conrad… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Crop loss due to viral diseases is still a major problem for agriculture today. We present a
strategy to achieve virus resistance based on the expression of single-chain Fv fragments …

Multifaceted regulation of translational readthrough by RNA replication elements in a tombusvirus

PA Cimino, BL Nicholson, B Wu, W Xu… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Translational readthrough of stop codons by ribosomes is a recoding event used by a variety
of viruses, including plus-strand RNA tombusviruses. Translation of the viral RNA …

The 5′-terminal region of a tombusvirus genome determines the origin of multivesicular bodies

J Burgyan, L Rubino, M Russo - Journal of General …, 1996 - microbiologyresearch.org
Multivesicular bodies (MVB) are membranous cytoplasmic inclusions that are invariably
associated with tombusvirus infections regardless of the virus species, the host, or the tissue …

Uncoupled expression of p33 and p92 permits amplification of tomato bushy stunt virus RNAs

SK Oster, B Wu, KA White - Journal of virology, 1998 - journals.asm.org
Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) is a plus-sense RNA virus which encodes a 33-kDa protein
in its 5′-most open reading frame (ORF). Readthrough of the amber stop codon of the p33 …

Mitochondrial targeting and membrane anchoring of a viral replicase in plant and yeast cells

F Weber-Lotfi, A Dietrich, M Russo, L Rubino - Journal of virology, 2002 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Replication of the Carnation Italian ringspot virus genomic RNA in plant cells
occurs in multivesicular bodies which develop from the mitochondrial outer membrane …

Restoration of wild-type virus by double recombination of tombusvirus mutants with a host transgene

M Borja, T Rubio, HB Scholthof… - Molecular Plant …, 1999 - Am Phytopath Society
Nicotiana benthamiana plants transformed with the coat protein gene of tomato bushy stunt
virus (TBSV) failed to elicit effective virus resistance when inoculated with wild-type virus …

A primary determinant of cap-independent translation is located in the 3′-proximal region of the tomato bushy stunt virus genome

B Wu, KA White - Journal of virology, 1999 - journals.asm.org
Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) is a positive-strand RNA virus and is the prototype member
of the genus Tombusvirus. The genomes of members of this genus are not polyadenylated …

Defective and defective interfering RNAs of monopartite plus-strand RNA plant viruses

KA White, TJ Morris - Satellites and Defective Viral RNAs, 1999 - Springer
The defective interfering (DI) RNAs represent one of several c1asses of symptommodulating
RNAs identified in association with RNA plant virus infections. Structurally, these moleeules …