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/2002/3/10/reports/4033.1 Meeting report Viruses in and out Mariam Andrawiss Address: Department of Immunology and Molecular Pathlogy, Windeyer Institute of Medical Science, University College London, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4J, UK. E-mail: m.andrawiss@ucl.ac.uk Published: 24 September 2002 GenomeBiology 2002, 3(10):reports4033.1–4033.4 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2002/3/10/reports/4033 ? BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1465-6906; Online ISSN 1465-6914) surface, plant viruses enter cells in the first instance by A report on the twelfth Congress of Virology, part of ‘The passive diffusion through breaches in the cell wall. This is world of microbes’, the joint meeting of the three divisions later followed by spreading of the virus from cell to cell in of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, Paris, the plant through plasmodesmata, cytoplasmic connections France, 27 July to 1 August 2002. through channels in the cell wall that provide communica- tion between adjacent cells. The viruses can then spread through the conductive tissues of the plant - xylem and Microbes are the smallest forms of life on earth. Some microbes are deadly, most are harmless, and some are extremely beneficial. They can be found anywhere - in air, water, plants, animals and humans - and fall into four phloem vessels. Susan Angell (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK) presented new data on the movement of potato virus X, a plant virus with a single-stranded RNA genome. our viral proteins are required for cell-to-cell movement: the triple gene block proteins (TGB 25K, TGB 12K and TGB 8K) and the coat protein. TGB 12K increases the size exclusion limit (SEL) of plasmodesmata, so that viruses can get through. Angell identified host plant proteins that interact with viral movement proteins,