Suppression of post-transcriptional gene silencing by a plant viral protein localized in the nucleus

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1672-1680

  Lucy, Andrew P ^a   Guo, Hui Shan ^a   Li, Wan Xiang ^a   Ding, Shou Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cucumber mosaic virus; Nuclear import; Posttranscriptional gene silencing; Viral silencing suppressor; Virus virulence

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA PROCESSING; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0034599462     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.7.1672     Document Type: Article

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