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ArticleMolecular plant pathology2022

Targeting of genomic and negative-sense strands of viral RNA contributes to antiviral resistance mediated by artificial miRNAs and promotes the emergence of complex viral populations.

Frida Mesel, Mingmin Zhao, Beatriz García, Carmen Simón-Mateo, Juan Antonio García

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Article in Molecular plant pathology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. RNA silencing: the future potential strategy for engineering virus resistance in plants.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2025
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Frida MeselDepartment of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Mingmin ZhaoDepartment of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4816-0949
Beatriz GarcíaDepartment of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Carmen Simón-MateoDepartment of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4251-0821
Juan Antonio GarcíaDepartment of Plant Molecular Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4861-9609
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología · ESInner Mongolia Agricultural University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Technology based on artificial small RNAs, including artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs), exploits natural RNA silencing mechanisms to achieve silencing of endogenous genes or pathogens. This technology has been successfully employed to generate resistance against different eukaryotic viruses. However, information about viral RNA molecules effectively targeted by these small RNAs is rather conflicting, and factors contributing to the selection of virus mutants escaping the antiviral activity of virus-specific small RNAs have not been studied in detail. In this work, we transformed Nicotiana benthamiana plants with amiRNA constructs designed against the potyvirus plum pox virus (PPV), a positive-sense RNA virus, and obtained lines highly resistant to PPV infection and others showing partial resistance. These lines have allowed us to verify that amiRNA directed against genomic RNA is more efficient than amiRNA targeting its complementary strand. However, we also provide evidence that the negative-sense RNA strand is cleaved by the amiRNA-guided RNA silencing machinery. Our results show that the selection pressure posed by the amiRNA action on both viral RNA strands causes an evolutionary explosion that results in the emergence of a broad range of virus variants, which can further expand in the presence, and even in the absence, of antiviral challenges.

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MicroRNAsPlum Pox VirusAntiviral AgentsGenomicsNicotianaPlant DiseasesPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA InterferenceRNA, ViralAntiviral AgentsMicroRNAsRNA, ViralamiRNAPlum pox viruspotyvirusesPPVRNA silencingvirus evolutionvirus resistance

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PMID35989243
PMCPMC9562735
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