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Role of Outer Capsid Proteins in Transmission of Phytoreovirus By Insect Vectors

1999; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60364-4

1557-8399

T. Omura, Jin Yan,

Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

This chapter focuses on the role of outer capsid protein in the transmission of Phytoreovirus by insect vectors. Using current research systems combined with reliable traditional experimental systems, the chapter discusses the viral proteins responsible for infection by Phytoreovirus of vector cells, with the goal of defining the mechanism of the vector transmission of such viruses. Clarification of the molecular mechanisms of viral multiplication in distinct hosts and of interkingdom differences in the expression of specific proteins should provide new insights into the roles of proteins that function in the virus–host relationship. Such investigations of the viral molecules that are essential for virus transmission by vectors and of the ways in which these molecules function should help develop measures for controling plant viruses that are transmitted by vectors. It might even be possible to generate transgenic plants that express proteins that interfere with the normal interactions between a virus and its vector.