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Diverse amino acid changes at specific positions in the N-terminal region of the coat protein allow Plum pox virus to adapt to new hosts.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2013
Carbonell Alberto, Maliogka Varvara I, Pérez José de Jesús, Salvador Beatriz, León David San, García Juan Antonio, Simón-Mateo Carmen
Abstract excerpt
Plum pox virus (PPV)-D and PPV-R are two isolates from strain D of PPV that differ in host specificity. Previous analyses of chimeras originating from PPV-R and PPV-D suggested that the N terminus of the coat protein (CP) includes host-specific pathogenicity determinants. Here, these determinants were mapped precisely by analyzing the infectivity in herbaceous and woody species of chimeras containing a fragment...
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