“…The remaining 39 host proteins identified with both TBSV and BMV RNA probes are involved in a variety of cellular processes, such as translation initiation or elongation, transcription activation, ribosomal RNA processing/binding, mRNA transport, protein membrane targeting or are predicted to have various biochemical activities, such as helicase, tRNA ligase, tRNA methyltransferase, rRNA dimethylase, ribonuclease, co-chaperone, and protein kinase ( Table 1). One of these proteins, translation elongation factor eEF1A, is the homolog of the plant eEF1A, which has been shown to bind to the BMV RNA (Bastin and Hall, 1976). In addition, the identified pseudouridine synthase Pus4p (Table 1) could be involved in pseudouridynylation--based modification of BMV RNA, which has been shown to occur in vivo (Baumstark and Ahlquist, 2001).…”