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V2 of tomato yellow leaf curl virus can suppress methylation-mediated transcriptional gene silencing in plants Free

Abstract

(TYLCV) is a DNA virus belonging to the genus . TYLCV replicates using double-stranded DNA intermediates that can become the target of plant transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Here, we show that the V2 protein of TYLCV can suppress TGS of a transcriptionally silenced green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene in line 16-TGS. Through bisulfite sequencing and chop-PCR, we demonstrated that the TYLCV V2 can reverse GFP transgene silencing by reducing the methylation levels in the 35S promoter sequence. Both and loci in were previously reported to be strongly methylated, and we show that the methylation status of both loci was significantly reduced in TYLCV V2 transgenic plants. We conclude that TYLCV can efficiently suppress TGS when it infects plants, and its V2 protein is responsible for the TGS suppression activity.

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V2 of tomato yellow leaf curl virus can suppress methylation-mediated transcriptional gene silencing in plants
J. Gen. Virol. 95, 225 (2014); https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.055798-0
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