Methodology: We tissue cultured the PVX positive potato plants for viral RNA extraction. Total RNA was converted to cDNA for priming CP gene in PCR for amplification. To get the complete sequence of gene, we cloned CP gene into pTZ57R/T cloning vector. Upon double digestion of recombinant plasmid with EcoRI and HindIII restriction enzymes, 710 bp fragment was obtained which confirmed cloning. R...

DNA vaccination represents an attractive strategy for cancer immunotherapy combining vaccine stability, cost-effectiveness, and safety. However, a major problem of genetic vaccination is the limited potency, due to intrinsic lack of amplifying and spreading abilities in vivo and to the suboptimal intracellular processing/presentation of tumor antigens. We explored the therapeutic antitumor pote...

Our previous work has demonstrated that the NSvc4 protein of Rice stripe virus (RSV) functions as a cell-to-cell movement protein. However, the mechanisms whereby RSV traffics through plasmodesmata (PD) are unknown. Here we provide evidence that the NSvc4 moves on the actin filament and endoplasmic reticulum network, but not microtubules, to reach cell wall PD. Disruption of cytoskeleton using ...

Previous evidence has indicated that the P25 protein encoded by Potato virus X (PVX) inhibits either the assembly or function of the effector complexes in the RNA silencing-based antiviral defence system (Bayne et al., Cell-to-cell movement of Potato Potexvirus X is dependent on suppression of RNA silencing. Plant J.44, 471-482). This finding prompted us to investigate the possibility that P25 ...

A major class of disease-resistance (R) genes in plants encode nucleotide-binding site/leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins. The LRR domains mediate recognition of pathogen-derived elicitors. Here we describe a random in vitro mutation analysis illustrating how mutations in an R protein (Rx) LRR domain generate disease-resistance specificity. The original Rx protein confers resistance only agains...