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Review
. 1996:47:119-58.
doi: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60735-6.

Principles of molecular organization, expression, and evolution of closteroviruses: over the barriers

A A Agranovsky  1
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Principles of molecular organization, expression, and evolution of closteroviruses: over the barriers

A A Agranovsky. Adv Virus Res. 1996.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the molecular organization, evolution, and expression of closterovirus genomes, as well as on their unique particle structure. The closterovirus group combines several positive-strand RNA viruses with very flexuous filamentous particles, of which beet yellows virus (BYV) is the type virus. Closteroviruses are distinct from other RNA viruses of plants in some important phenomenological aspects. They have genomes of up to 20 kilobases (kb), a value comparable only to those of the animal coronaviruses and toroviruses, which have the largest RNA genomes of all positive-strand RNA viruses. The existence of such genomes having a coding capacity several times that of an average RNA virus genome raises questions as to the trend whereby the long genomes have evolved and the possible novel functions they have acquired. The dramatic increase in the closterovirus genome coding capacity may be linked to the distinct ecological niche they occupy. Thus, closteroviruses are the only elongated plant viruses known so far to cause phloem-limited infections in plants and to persist in their insect vectors for many hours, in contrast to only minutes.

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