A viral suppressor protein inhibits host RNA silencing by hooking up with Argonautes
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A viral suppressor protein inhibits host RNA silencing by hooking up with Argonautes.
RNA viruses are particularly vulnerable to RNAi-based defenses in the host, and thus have evolved specific proteins, known as viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs), as a counterdefense. In this issue of Genes & Development, Azevedo and colleagues (pp. 904-915) discovered that P38, the VSR of Turnip crinkle virus, uses its glycine/tryptophane (GW) motifs as an ARGONAUTE (AGO) hook to attract...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genes & Development
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0890-9369
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1927310