Characterization of the X4 protein of Tomato ringspot virus and analysis of its variability among virus isolates

The genome of Tomato ringspot virus (nepovirus) encodes a unique X4 protein of unknown function. X4 is absent from the genome of many other nepoviruses and does not have significant sequence homology with other proteins in available databases. I have studied the possible function(s) of the ToRSV-X...

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Main Author: Jafarpour, Bita
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22059