Method for altering degradation of engineered protein in plant cells

摘要

A method of altering degradation of heterologous proteins in transgenic plants has now been found that utilizes ER-localizing proteins of plant viruses as part of a fusion protein. An engineered fusion protein is protected from degradation by a viral ER-localizing protein, and made more susceptible to degradation by certain mutant viral proteins that fail to localize to the ER.