Abstract
Coat proteins (CPs) of all plant viruses have an early function in disassembly of parental virus and a late function in assembly of progeny virus. Depending on the virus, however, CPs may play a role in many steps of the infection cycle in between these early and late functions. It has been shown that CPs can play a role in translation of viral RNA, targeting of the viral genome to its site of replication, cell-to-cell and/or systemic movement of the virus, symptomatology and virulence of the infection, activation of Rgene-mediated host defenses, suppression of RNA silencing, interference with suppression of RNA silencing, and determination of the specificity of virus transmission by vectors. These functions are reviewed in this chapter.
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Bol, J.F. (2008). Role of Capsid Proteins. In: Foster, G.D., Johansen, I.E., Hong, Y., Nagy, P.D. (eds) Plant Virology Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 451. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-102-4_2
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