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    Geminiviruses are a family of single-stranded DNA viruses that cause significant yield losses in crop production worldwide. Transcription start site (TSS) mapping is crucial in understanding the gene expression mechanisms of geminiviruses. However, this often requires costly and laborious experiments. Rice stripe virus (RSV) has a mechanism called cap-snatching, whereby it cleaves cellular mRNAs and uses the 5' cleavage product, a capped-RNA leader (CRL), as primers for transcription. Our previous work demonstrated that RSV snatches CRLs from geminiviral mRNAs in co-infected plants, providing a convenient and powerful approach to map the TSSs of geminiviruses. However, co-infections are not always feasible for all geminiviruses. In this study, we evaluated the use of in vitro cap-snatching of RSV for the same purpose, using tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) as an example. We incubated RNA extracted from TYLCV-infected plants with purified RSV ribonucleoproteins in a reaction mixture that supports in vitro cap-snatching of RSV. The RSV mRNAs produced in the reaction were deep sequenced. The CRLs snatched by RSV allowed us to locate 28 TSSs in TYLCV. These results provide support for using RSV's in vitro cap-snatching to map geminiviral TSSs. Copyright © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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    Wenzhong Lin, Ping Qiu, Yixing Xu, Lihong Chen, Zujian Wu, Jie Zhang, Zhenguo Du. Transcription start site mapping of geminiviruses using the in vitro cap-snatching of a tenuivirus. Journal of virological methods. 2023 Sep;319:114757

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