Crosstalk between PTGS and TGS pathways in natural antiviral immunity and disease recovery

CJ Kørner, N Pitzalis, EJ Peña, M Erhardt, F Vazquez… - Nature Plants, 2018 - nature.com
Virus-induced diseases cause severe damage to cultivated plants, resulting in crop losses.
Certain plant–virus interactions allow disease recovery at later stages of infection and have …

Resistance to Citrus psorosis virus in transgenic sweet orange plants is triggered by coat protein–RNA silencing

CA Reyes, A De Francesco, EJ Peña, N Costa… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The lack of naturally occurring resistance to Citrus psorosis virus (CPsV) has demanded
exploitation of a transgenic approach for the development of CPsV-resistant sweet orange plants…

Genetic transformation of sweet orange with the coat protein gene of Citrus psorosis virus and evaluation of resistance against the virus

MC Zanek, CA Reyes, M Cervera, EJ Peña… - Plant Cell Reports, 2008 - Springer
Citrus psorosis is a serious viral disease affecting citrus trees in many countries. Its causal
agent is Citrus psorosis virus (CPsV), the type member of genus Ophiovirus. CPsV infects …

Cortical microtubule-associated ER sites: organization centers of cell polarity and communication

EJ Peña, M Heinlein - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights • Microtubules and ER membranes interact at cortical microtubule-associated ER
sites (C-MERs). • Organelles pause their actin-driven movements at C-MERs. • C-MERs may …

[HTML][HTML] Ophioviruses CPsV and MiLBVV movement protein is encoded in RNA 2 and interacts with the coat protein

GR Luna, EJ Peña, MB Borniego, M Heinlein… - Virology, 2013 - Elsevier
Citrus psorosis virus (CPsV) and Mirafiori lettuce big-vein virus (MiLBVV), members of the
Ophioviridae family, have segmented negative-sense single-stranded RNA genomes. To date …

Malachite Green Derivatives for Two‐Photon RNA Detection

J Lux, EJ Peña, F Bolze, M Heinlein… - ChemBioChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The design, preparation and characterisation of a library of malachite green (MG) derivatives
for two‐photon RNA labelling is described. Some of these MG derivatives exhibit an …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatic and mutational analysis of ophiovirus movement proteins, belonging to the 30K superfamily

MB Borniego, D Karlin, EJ Peña, GR Luna, ML García - Virology, 2016 - Elsevier
Ophioviridae is a family of segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA plant viruses.
We showed that their cell-to-cell movement protein (MP) is an isolated member of the 30K MP …

Differential resistance to Citrus psorosis virus in transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants expressing hairpin RNA derived from the coat protein and 54K protein …

CA Reyes, EJ Peña, MC Zanek, DV Sanchez, O Grau… - Plant cell reports, 2009 - Springer
Citrus psorosis virus (CPsV), genus Ophiovirus, family Ophioviridae, is the causal agent of a
serious disease affecting citrus trees in many countries. The viral genome consists of three …

Citrus psorosis virus movement protein contains an aspartic protease required for autocleavage and the formation of tubule-like structures at plasmodesmata

G Robles Luna, EJ Peña, MB Borniego… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.asm.org
Plant virus cell-to-cell movement is an essential step in viral infections. This process is
facilitated by specific virus-encoded movement proteins (MPs), which manipulate the cell wall …

Experimental virus evolution reveals a role of plant microtubule dynamics and TORTIFOLIA1/SPIRAL2 in RNA trafficking

EJ Pena, I Ferriol, A Sambade, H Buschmann, A Niehl… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The cytoskeleton is a dynamic network composed of filamentous polymers and regulatory
proteins that provide a flexible structural scaffold to the cell and plays a fundamental role in …