FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HOST AND VIRAL GENES INVOLVED IN STRESS RESPONSES DURING PAPAYA RINGSPOT VIRUS (PRSV) INFECTION
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FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HOST AND VIRAL GENES INVOLVED IN STRESS RESPONSES DURING PAPAYA RINGSPOT VIRUS (PRSV) INFECTION
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SAHANA, NANDITA
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Contributor |
Shelly Praveen
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sowing, diseases, fungi, vegetables, seed treatment, physical control, storage, land resources, germinability, developmental stages
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Description |
T-8844
Plant viruses invade host cells and utilize the cellular pathways of the host to support various aspects of their infection cycle. To achieve these goals viruses must utilize the multi faceted defense mechanism of the host to make them susceptible for virus establishment. Hence the functional significance of viral proteins in modulating host defense responses is interesting to study. The main focus in the present study was the functional significance of Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) derived protein Helper component Proteinase (HcPro) during viral infection in host. The present study highlights the essential role of Ubiquitin/26S proteasome system in plant defense responses during PRSV infection in papaya. Also altered expression was observed for microRNAs involved in plant defense and hormonal signaling in the papaya leaf tissues, suggesting their probable role in symptom development. Further the study emphasized the importance of viral protein HcPro in modulating catalytic activities of 20S core of proteasomal complex, in support of virus accumulation through molecular interaction with proteasomal subunit 1 and proteasomal subunit 5. Besides altering 20S proteasomal catalytic activities, HcPro was also found to play an important role in small RNA biogenesis, by its capacity to bind double stranded small RNAs, leading to systemic suppression of RNA silencing. The two well characterized domains at N terminal and the central region of the HcPro protein were found to be associated with these activities respectively. Taken together the present study reveals the critical importance of PRSV-HcPro in modulating plant defense responses like RNAi and proteasomal pathways in favour of virus accumulation. |
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2016-06-22T10:41:04Z
2016-06-22T10:41:04Z 2013 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67655
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application/pdf
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IARI,DIVISION OF BIOCHEMISTRY
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