id: Pfam:PF07234
pfam_id: PF07234
name: Movement and RNA silencing protein
short_name: Babuvirus_MP
seed_status: EX_DUF
characterization_status: UNSCORED
curation_status: SEEDED
source_url: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/api/entry/pfam/PF07234
counters:
  proteins: 21
  matches: 21
  proteomes: 6
  taxa: 16
  structures: 0
  alphafold_models: 1
  domain_architectures: 1
provenance:
  snapshot_id: interpro-pfam-duf-2026-10-10
  path: data/worklists/interpro-pfam-duf-2026-10-10.json
  sha256: 17fb625876c9326ed284263a47bcd84e0d7844a31c040dc06cd2260c36f1c383
  generated_at: '2026-10-10T07:44:21.614711Z'
  source_url: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/api/entry/pfam/
interpro_id: InterPro:IPR009871
description: This family consists of several Babuvirus proteins of around 120 residues in length. Proteins
  in this family include movement and RNA silencing protein (also known as MP) from Banana bunchy top
  virus. MP acts as a suppressor of RNA-mediated gene silencing, also known as post-transcriptional gene
  silencing (PTGS), a mechanism of plant viral defense that limits the accumulation of viral RNAs. It
  transports viral genome to neighbouring plant cells directly through plasmosdesmata, without any budding.
  The movement protein allows efficient cell to cell propagation, by bypassing the host cell wall barrier
  [[cite:PUB00070087]].