TY - JOUR AU - Ma, Xiaofang AU - Hong, Ni AU - Moffett, Peter AU - Zhou, Yijun AU - Wang, Guoping PY - 2019 DA - 2019/02/08 TI - Functional analysis of apple stem pitting virus coat protein variants JO - Virology Journal SP - 20 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Although the canonical function of viral coat protein (CP) is to encapsidate the viral genome, they have come to be recognized as multifunctional proteins, involved in almost every stage of the viral infection cycle. However, CP functions of Apple stem pitting virus (ASPV) has not been comprehensively documented. This study aimed to characterize the functions of ASPV CP and any functional diversification caused by sequence diversity of six ASPV CP variants and studied their biological, serological, pathogenic and viral suppressor of RNA silencing (VSR) functions. SN - 1743-422X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-019-1126-8 DO - 10.1186/s12985-019-1126-8 ID - Ma2019 ER -