Viral Hacks of the Plant Vasculature: The Role of Phloem Alterations in Systemic Virus Infection
Viral Hacks of the Plant Vasculature: The Role of Phloem Alterations in Systemic Virus Infection
复制标题
DOI:
10.1146/annurev-virology-010320-072410
复制
发表时间:
2020-01-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Culver, James N.
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Kappagantu, Madhu;Collum, Tamara D.;Culver, James N.
For plant viruses, the ability to load into the vascular phloem and spread systemically within a host is an essential step in establishing a successful infection. However, access to the vascular phloem is highly regulated, representing a significant obstacle to virus loading, movement, and subsequent unloading into distal uninfected tissues. Recent studies indicate that during virus infection, phloem tissues are a source of significant transcriptional and translational alterations, with the number of virus-induced differentially expressed genes being four- to sixfold greater in phloem tissues than in surrounding nonphloem tissues. In addition, viruses target phloem-specific components as a means to promote their own systemic movement and disrupt host defense processes. Combined, these studies provide evidence that the vascular phloem plays a significant role in the mediation and control of host responses during infection and as such is a site of considerable modulation by the infecting virus. This review outlines the phloem responses and directed reprograming mechanisms that viruses employ to promote their movement through the vasculature.