Walking Together: Cross-Protection, Genome Conservation, and the Replication Machinery of Citrus tristeza virus.
Viruses
; 12(12)2020 11 26.
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ABSTRACT
"Cross-protection", a nearly 100 years-old virological term, is suggested to be changed to "close protection". Evidence for the need of such change has accumulated over the past six decades from the laboratory experiments and field tests conducted by plant pathologists and plant virologists working with different plant viruses, and, in particular, from research on Citrus tristeza virus (CTV). A direct confirmation of such close protection came with the finding that "pre-immunization" of citrus plants with the variants of the T36 strain of CTV but not with variants of other virus strains was providing protection against a fluorescent protein-tagged T36-based recombinant virus variant. Under natural conditions close protection is functional and is closely associated both with the conservation of the CTV genome sequence and prevention of superinfection by closely similar isolates. It is suggested that the mechanism is primarily directed to prevent the danger of virus population collapse that could be expected to result through quasispecies divergence of large RNA genomes of the CTV variants continuously replicating within long-living and highly voluminous fruit trees. This review article provides an overview of the CTV cross-protection research, along with a discussion of the phenomenon in the context of the CTV biology and genetics.
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Asunto principal:
Enfermedades de las Plantas
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Replicación Viral
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Citrus
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Genoma Viral
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Closterovirus
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Protección Cruzada
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Viruses
Año:
2020
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Article
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Estados Unidos