Summary. -Viruses use both material and energy sources of their hosts and redirect the production of disposable compounds in order to make viral replication more effi cient. Metabolism of infected organisms is modifi ed by these enhanced requirements as well by their own defense response. Resulting complex story consists of many regulation events on various gene expression levels. Elucidating these processes may contribute to the knowledge on virus-host interactions and to evolving new antiviral strategies. In our work we applied a subtractive cloning technique to compare the transcriptomes of healthy and plum pox virus (PPV)-infected Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Several genes were found to be induced or repressed by the PPV infection. Th e induced genes were mainly related to general stress response or photosynthesis, several repressed genes could be connected with growth defects evoked by the infection. Interestingly, some genes usually up-regulated by fungal or bacterial infection were found repressed in PPV-infected plants. Potential involvement of particular diff erently expressed genes in the process of PPV infection is discussed.Keywords: virus-host interaction; gene expression; subtractive hybridization * Corresponding author. E-mail: virusubr@savba.sk; phone: +421-2-59302447. Abbreviations: APX = ascorbate peroxidase; CAB = chlorophyll a/b-binding protein; DSPP = dentin sialophosphoprotein; FRL = Frigida-like protein; GCS = glycine cleavage system; HMGB = high mobility group B protein; JA = jasmonic acid; MLP = major latex protein; MT = metallothionein; PI-PLC = phosphoinositide-specifi c phospholipase C; PPV = plum pox virus; PRG = photosynthesis-related gene; PS II = photosystem II; ROS = reactive oxygen species; SNS = S-norcoclaurine synthase; SUMO = small ubiquitin-related modifi er; TLP = tetraspanin-like protein; Ub = ubiquitin
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