1 The Nucleocapsid Protein of Coronaviruses Acts as a Viral Suppressor of RNA Silencing in Mammalian Cells 1 Running title: Coronavirus N as VSR in Mammalian cells 2 3 Lei Cui, Haiying Wang, Yanxi Ji, Jie Yang, Shan Xu, Xingyu Huang, Zidao Wang, Lei 4 Qin, Po Tien, Xi Zhou, Deyin Guo#, Yu Chen# 5 6 State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, 7 Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China 8 9 #Address correspondence to Deyin Guo,