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The systemic movement of a tobamovirus is inhibited by a cadmium-ion-induced glycine-rich protein

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Systemic movement is central to plant viral infection. Exposure of tobacco plants to low levels of cadmium ions blocks the systemic spread of turnip vein-clearing tobamovirus (TVCV). We identified a tobacco glycine-rich protein, cdiGRP, specifically induced by low concentrations of cadmium and expressed in the cell walls of plant vascular tissues. Constitutive cdiGRP expression inhibited systemic transport of TVCV, whereas suppression of cdiGRP production allowed TVCV movement in the presence of cadmium. cdiGRP exerted its inhibitory effect on TVCV transport by enhancing callose deposits in the vasculature. So cdiGRP may function to control plant viral systemic movement.

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Figure 1: Identification of cdiGRP.
Figure 2: Cadmium-ion-induced tissue-specific expression of cdiGRP in the cell walls of vascular tissues.
Figure 3: TVCV systemic movement in cdiGRP antisense plants is not inhibited by cadmium ions.
Figure 4: Reduced TVCV systemic movement in cdiGRP sense plants.
Figure 5: Effect of constitutive cdiGRP expression on TVCV disease symptoms.
Figure 6: TVCV accumulation in vascular tissues of uninoculated leaves of cadmium-ion-treated and cdiGRP S1 plants.
Figure 7: Callose accumulation in the phloem of cadmium-ion-treated and cdiGRP S2 plants.
Figure 8: Callose accumulation and TVCV systemic movement in class Iβ-1,3-glucanase-deficient TAG4.4 plants.

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We thank H. Scholthof for helpful discussions, and P. Vera and N. Carpita for critical reading of the paper. We are also grateful to F. Meins Jr. for his kind gift of TAG4.4 plants. We would like to express our gratitude to the University Microscopy Imaging Center (UMIC) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for their technical help. This work was supported by grants from National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation Functional Genomic Initiative, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), and U.S.-Israel Binational Research and Development Fund (BARD) to V. C., and, in part, by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to S. U.

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