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1.
Viruses ; 13(11)2021 10 22.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34834936

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), the largest non-segmented plant RNA virus, has several peculiar features, among which is the production of a 5'-terminal long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) termed low-molecular-weight tristeza 1 (LMT1). In this study, we found that p33, a unique viral protein that performs multiple functions in the virus infection cycle, specifically binds LMT1, both in vivo and in vitro. These results were obtained through the expression of p33 under the context of the wild type virus infection or along with a mutant CTV variant that does not produce LMT1 as well as via ectopic co-expression of p33 with LMT1 in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves followed by RNA immunoprecipitation and rapid amplification of cDNA ends assays. Further experiments in which a recombinant p33 protein and an in vitro transcribed full-length LMT1 RNA or its truncated fragments were subjected to an electrophoretic mobility shift assay demonstrated that p33 binds to at least two distinct regions within LMT1. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a plant virus protein binding to a lncRNA produced by the same virus. The biological significance of the interaction between these two viral factors is discussed.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , ARN Largo no Codificante/metabolismo , ARN Viral/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/genética , Genoma Viral , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Unión Proteica , ARN Largo no Codificante/genética , ARN Viral/genética , Nicotiana/virología , Proteínas Virales/genética
2.
PLoS Comput Biol ; 17(6): e1009166, 2021 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34181647

RESUMEN

As genomic architectures become more complex, they begin to accumulate degenerate and redundant elements. However, analyses of the molecular mechanisms underlying these genetic architecture features remain scarce, especially in compact but sufficiently complex genomes. In the present study, we followed a proteomic approach together with a computational network analysis to reveal molecular signatures of protein function degeneracy from a plant virus (as virus-host protein-protein interactions). We employed affinity purification coupled to mass spectrometry to detect several host factors interacting with two proteins of Citrus tristeza virus (p20 and p25) that are known to function as RNA silencing suppressors, using an experimental system of transient expression in a model plant. The study was expanded by considering two different isolates of the virus, and some key interactions were confirmed by bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays. We found that p20 and p25 target a common set of plant proteins including chloroplastic proteins and translation factors. Moreover, we noted that even specific targets of each viral protein overlap in function. Notably, we identified argonaute proteins (key players in RNA silencing) as reliable targets of p20. Furthermore, we found that these viral proteins preferentially do not target hubs in the host protein interactome, but elements that can transfer information by bridging different parts of the interactome. Overall, our results demonstrate that two distinct proteins encoded in the same viral genome that overlap in function also overlap in their interactions with the cell proteome, thereby highlighting an overlooked connection from a degenerate viral system.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Interferencia de ARN , ARN Viral/genética , Proteínas Argonautas/metabolismo , Citrus/metabolismo , Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Biología Computacional , Genoma Viral , Interacciones Microbiota-Huesped/genética , Interacciones Microbiota-Huesped/fisiología , Modelos Biológicos , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Mapas de Interacción de Proteínas , Proteómica , Proteínas Represoras/genética , Proteínas Represoras/metabolismo , Nicotiana/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo
3.
Cells ; 10(4)2021 04 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33920690

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus is a member of the genus Closterovirus in the family Closteroviridae. The p23 of citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is a multifunctional protein and RNA silencing suppressor. In this study, we identified a p23 interacting partner, FK506-binding protein (FKBP) 17-2, from Citrus aurantifolia (CaFKBP17-2), a susceptible host, and Nicotiana benthamiana (NbFKBP17-2), an experimental host for CTV. The interaction of p23 with CaFKBP17-2 and NbFKBP17-2 were individually confirmed by yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays. Subcellular localization tests showed that the viral p23 translocated FKBP17-2 from chloroplasts to the plasmodesmata of epidermal cells of N. benthamiana leaves. The knocked-down expression level of NbFKBP17-2 mRNA resulted in a decreased CTV titer in N. benthamiana plants. Further, BiFC and Y2H assays showed that NbFKBP17-2 also interacted with the coat protein (CP) of CTV, and the complexes of CP/NbFKBP17-2 rapidly moved in the cytoplasm. Moreover, p23 guided the CP/NbFKBP17-2 complexes to move along the cell wall. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of viral proteins interacting with FKBP17-2 encoded by plants. Our results provide insights for further revealing the mechanism of the CTV CP protein movement.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas de la Cápside/metabolismo , Citrus/metabolismo , Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Interacciones Huésped-Patógeno , Espacio Intracelular/metabolismo , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Movimiento Viral en Plantas/metabolismo , Fenotipo , Hojas de la Planta/citología , Hojas de la Planta/virología , Unión Proteica , Transporte de Proteínas , Fracciones Subcelulares/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología
4.
New Phytol ; 221(4): 2039-2053, 2019 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30220089

RESUMEN

Accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a general plant basal defense strategy against viruses. In this study, we show that infection by Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) triggered ROS burst in Nicotiana benthamiana and in the natural citrus host, the extent of which was virus-dose dependent. Using Agrobacterium-mediated expression of CTV-encoded proteins in N. benthamiana, we found that p33, a unique viral protein, contributed to the induction of ROS accumulation and programmed cell death. The role of p33 in CTV pathogenicity was assessed based on gene knockout and complementation in N. benthamiana. In the citrus-CTV pathosystem, deletion of the p33 open reading frame in a CTV variant resulted in a significant decrease in ROS production, compared to that of the wild type CTV, which correlated with invasion of the mutant virus into the immature xylem tracheid cells and abnormal differentiation of the vascular system. By contrast, the wild type CTV exhibited phloem-limited distribution with a minor effect on the vasculature. We conclude that the p33 protein is a CTV effector that negatively affects virus pathogenicity and suggest that N. benthamiana recognizes p33 to activate the host immune response to restrict CTV into the phloem tissue and minimize the disease syndrome.


Asunto(s)
Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Closterovirus/patogenicidad , Interacciones Huésped-Patógeno/fisiología , Inmunidad de la Planta , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Apoptosis , Closterovirus/ultraestructura , Mutación/genética , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Hojas de la Planta/virología , Especies Reactivas de Oxígeno/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología , Árboles/virología , Xilema/citología , Xilema/virología
5.
Mol Plant Pathol ; 19(2): 355-368, 2018 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27997767

RESUMEN

Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 2 (GLRaV-2) p24 has been reported to be an RNA silencing suppressor (RSS). However, the mechanisms underlying p24's suppression of RNA silencing are unknown. Using Agrobacterium infiltration-mediated RNA silencing assays, we showed that GLRaV-2 p24 is a strong RSS triggered by positive-sense green fluorescent protein (GFP) RNA, and that silencing suppression by p24 effectively blocks the accumulation of small interfering RNAs. Deletion analyses showed that the region of amino acids 1-188, which contains all predicted α-helices and ß-strands, is required for the RSS activity of p24. Hydrophobic residues I35/F38/V85/V89/W149 and V162/L169/L170, previously shown to be critical for p24 self-interaction, are also crucial for silencing suppression, and western blotting results suggested that a lack of self-interaction ability results in decreased p24 accumulation in plants. The mutants showed greatly weakened or a lack of RSS activity. Substitution with two basic residues at positions 2 or 86, putatively involved in RNA binding, totally abolished the RSS activity of p24, suggesting that p24 uses an RNA-binding strategy to suppress RNA silencing. Our results also showed that W54 in the WG/GW-like motif (W54/G55) is crucial for the RSS activity of p24, whereas p24 does not physically interact with AGO1 of Nicotiana benthamiana. Furthermore, p24 did not promote AGO1 degradation, but significantly up-regulated AGO1 mRNA expression, and this effect was correlated with the RSS activity of p24, indicating that p24 may interfere with microRNA-directed processes. The presented results contribute to our understanding of viral suppression of RNA silencing and the molecular mechanisms underlying GLRaV-2 infection.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología , Proteínas Argonautas/genética , Proteínas Argonautas/metabolismo , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/patogenicidad , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/genética , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/metabolismo , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/virología , ARN Interferente Pequeño/metabolismo , Nicotiana/metabolismo
6.
Virus Res ; 233: 29-34, 2017 04 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28279804

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), the most economically important viral pathogen of citrus, encodes a unique protein, p33. CTV p33 shows no similarity with other known proteins, yet plays an important role in viral pathogenesis: it extends the virus host range and mediates virus ability to exclude superinfection by other variants of the virus. Previously we demonstrated that p33 is an integral membrane protein and appears to share characteristics of viral movement proteins. In this study, we show that the p33 protein self-interacts in vitro and in vivo using co-immunoprecipitation, yeast two hybrid, and bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays. Furthermore, a helix located at the N-terminus of the protein is required and sufficient for the protein self-interaction.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Genoma Viral , Proteínas de la Membrana/química , Proteínas Virales/química , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Sitios de Unión , Citrus/virología , Clonación Molecular , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Closterovirus/patogenicidad , Expresión Génica , Vectores Genéticos/química , Vectores Genéticos/metabolismo , Especificidad del Huésped , Proteínas de la Membrana/genética , Proteínas de la Membrana/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Unión Proteica , Conformación Proteica en Hélice alfa , Dominios y Motivos de Interacción de Proteínas , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Alineación de Secuencia , Homología de Secuencia de Aminoácido , Nicotiana/genética , Nicotiana/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo
7.
Virology ; 502: 106-113, 2017 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28027478

RESUMEN

In infected plant cells, closterovirus replicative polyproteins 1a and 1ab drive membrane remodeling and formation of multivesicular replication platforms. Polyprotein 1a contains a variable Central Region (CR) between the methyltransferase and helicase domains. In a previous study, we have found that transient expression of the Beet yellows virus CR-2 segment (aa 1305-1494) in Nicotiana benthamiana induces the formation of ~1µm mobile globules originating from the ER membranes. In the present study, sequence analysis has shown that a part of the CR named the "Zemlya region" (overlapping the CR-2), is conserved in all members of the Closterovirus genus and contains a predicted amphipathic helix (aa 1368-1385). By deletion analysis, the CR-2 region responsible for the induction of 1-µm globules has been mapped to aa 1368-1432. We suggest that the conserved membrane-modifying region of the BYV 1a may be involved in the biogenesis of closterovirus replication platforms.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Retículo Endoplásmico/virología , Nicotiana/virología , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Poliproteínas/química , Poliproteínas/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/química , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Closterovirus/química , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Secuencia Conservada , Retículo Endoplásmico/metabolismo , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Poliproteínas/genética , Alineación de Secuencia , Proteínas Virales/genética
8.
Virus Res ; 220: 57-63, 2016 07 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27084306

RESUMEN

The 24-kDa protein (p24) encoded by grapevine leafroll-associated virus 2 (GLRaV-2) is an RNA-silencing suppressor. In this work, a yeast two-hybrid system (YTHS) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation analyses showed that GLRaV-2 p24 can interact with itself, and that this interaction occurs in the cytoplasm of Nicotiana benthamiana cells. To identify the functional region(s) and crucial amino acid residues required for p24 self-interaction, various truncated and substitution mutants were generated. YTHS assay showed that in both homologous pairing and pairing with the wild-type p24, the functional regions mapped to aa 10-180 or 1-170 which contain, respectively, all seven α-helices or the first six α-helices and the N-terminal end (aa 1-9) of the protein. When only the full-length p24 was an interaction partner, the functional region of aa 1-170 could be further mapped to aa 1-140 which contains four α-helices plus most of the fifth α-helix. Further analysis with substitution mutants demonstrated that hydrophobic residues I35/F38/V85/V89/W149 and V162/L169/L170, which may, respectively, mediate the inter-domain interaction of the same p24 monomer and the tail-to-tail association between two p24 counterparts, are crucial for homotypic p24-p24 interaction. In addition, substitution of two basic residues-R2 or R86-of p24, which may play important functional roles in RNA binding, did not seem to affect self-interaction of the mutants in yeast but had obvious effects in plant cells. Taken together, our results demonstrate the functional regions and crucial amino acids for p24 self-interaction.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/química , Genes Supresores , Células Vegetales/virología , Dominios y Motivos de Interacción de Proteínas , Proteínas Virales/química , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/genética , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Sitios de Unión , Clonación Molecular , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Citoplasma/virología , Expresión Génica , Vectores Genéticos/química , Vectores Genéticos/metabolismo , Interacciones Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Mutación , Unión Proteica , Conformación Proteica en Hélice alfa , Interferencia de ARN , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Nicotiana/citología , Nicotiana/virología , Técnicas del Sistema de Dos Híbridos , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo
9.
Mol Plant Microbe Interact ; 26(3): 306-18, 2013 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23387469

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) encodes a singular protein (p23, 209 amino acids) with multiple functions, including RNA silencing suppression (RSS). Confocal laser-scanning microscopy of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-p23 agroexpressed in Nicotiana benthamiana revealed its accumulation in the nucleolus, Cajal bodies, and plasmodesmata. To dissect the nucleolar localization signal (NoLS) typically associated with basic motifs, seven truncated and 10 point-mutated versions of p23 were assayed. Deletion mutants showed that regions 50 to 86 and 100 to 157 (excluding fragment 106 to 114), both with basic motifs and the first with a zinc-finger, contain the (bipartite) NoLS. Alanine substitutions delimited this signal to three cysteines of the Zn-finger and some basic amino acids. RSS activity of p23 in N. benthamiana was abolished by essentially all mutants, indicating that it involves most p23 regions. The necrotic-inducing ability of p23 when launched in N. benthamiana from Potato virus X was only retained by deletion mutant 158-209 and one substitution mutant, showing that the Zn-finger and flanking basic motifs form part of the pathogenic determinant. Ectopic expression of p23 and some deletion mutants in transgenic Mexican lime demarcated a similar determinant, suggesting that p23 affects related pathways in citrus and N. benthamiana. Both RSS activity and pathogenicity of p23 appear related to its nucleolar localization.


Asunto(s)
Nucléolo Celular/metabolismo , Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Transporte Activo de Núcleo Celular , Secuencias de Aminoácidos , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Citrus/citología , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/patogenicidad , Cuerpos Enrollados/metabolismo , Regulación de la Expresión Génica de las Plantas , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes/química , Interacciones Huésped-Patógeno , Microscopía Confocal , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Hojas de la Planta/citología , Hojas de la Planta/virología , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente , Plasmodesmos/metabolismo , Mutación Puntual , Potexvirus/genética , Interferencia de ARN , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/química , Eliminación de Secuencia , Nicotiana/citología , Transgenes , Proteínas Virales/genética , Virulencia
10.
J Virol ; 82(6): 2836-43, 2008 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18199648

RESUMEN

The Hsp70 homolog (Hsp70h) of Beet yellows virus (BYV) functions in virion assembly and cell-to-cell movement and is autonomously targeted to plasmodesmata in association with the actomyosin motility system (A. I. Prokhnevsky, V. V. Peremyslov, and V. V. Dolja, J. Virol. 79:14421-14428, 2005). Myosins are a diverse category of molecular motors that possess a motor domain and a tail domain involved in cargo binding. Plants have two classes of myosins, VIII and XI, whose specific functions are poorly understood. We used dominant negative inhibition to identify myosins required for Hsp70h localization to plasmodesmata. Six full-length myosin cDNAs from the BYV host plant Nicotiana benthamiana were sequenced and shown to encode apparent orthologs of the Arabidopsis thaliana myosins VIII-1, VIII-2, VIII-B, XI-2, XI-F, and XI-K. We found that the ectopic expression of the tail domains of each of the class VIII, but not the class XI, myosins inhibited the plasmodesmatal localization of Hsp70h. In contrast, the overexpression of the motor domains or the entire molecules of the class VIII myosins did not affect Hsp70h targeting. Further mapping revealed that the minimal cargo-binding part of the myosin VIII tails was both essential and sufficient for the inhibition of the proper Hsp70h localization. Interestingly, plasmodesmatal localization of the Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein and Arabidopsis protein RGP2 was not affected by myosin VIII tail overexpression. Collectively, our data implicate class VIII myosins in protein delivery to plasmodesmata and suggest that more than one mechanism of such delivery exist in plants.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Miosinas/metabolismo , Plasmodesmos/metabolismo , Clonación Molecular , ADN Complementario , Microscopía Confocal , Transporte de Proteínas , Nicotiana/genética
11.
Virus Res ; 128(1-2): 153-8, 2007 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17521763

RESUMEN

In the positive-sense RNA genome of Beet yellows Closterovirus (BYV), the 3'-terminal open reading frames (ORFs) 2-8 are expressed as a nested set of subgenomic (sg) RNAs. ORFs 2-6, coding for the structural and movement proteins, form a 'five-gene block' conserved in closteroviruses. We mapped the 5'-end of the ORF 4 sgRNA, which encodes the p64 protein, at adenosine-11169 in the BYV genome. This completes the mapping of the transcription start sites for the five-gene block sgRNAs of BYV. Computer-assisted analysis of the sequences upstream of BYV ORFs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 revealed two conserved motifs, which might constitute the subgenomic promoter elements. These motifs are conserved in the equivalent positions upstream of three orthologous genes of Citrus tristeza Closterovirus and two orthologous genes of Beet yellow stunt Closterovirus.


Asunto(s)
Beta vulgaris/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Genoma Viral , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas/genética , ARN Viral/genética , Sitio de Iniciación de la Transcripción , Proteínas Virales/genética , Secuencia de Bases , Closterovirus/genética , Regulación Viral de la Expresión Génica , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Sistemas de Lectura Abierta/genética , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , ARN Viral/metabolismo
12.
Virology ; 346(1): 7-14, 2006 Mar 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16300814

RESUMEN

Launching the Beet yellows virus (BYV) minireplicon by agrobacterial delivery resulted in an unexpectedly low number of infected cells per inoculated leaf. This effect was due to a strong RNA silencing response in the agroinfiltrated leaves. Strikingly, ectopic co-expression of p21, a BYV RNA silencing suppressor, increased minireplicon infectivity by three orders of magnitude. Mutational analysis demonstrated that this effect correlates with suppressor activity of p21. Five diverse, heterologous viral suppressors were also active in this system, providing a useful approach for a dramatic, up to 10,000-fold, increase of the efficiency of agroinfection. The minireplicon agroinfection assay was also used to identify a new suppressor, a homolog of BYV p21, derived from Grapevine leafroll-associated virus-2. In addition, we report preliminary data on the suppressor activity of the p10 protein of Grapevine virus A and show that this protein belongs to a family of Zn-ribbon-containing proteins encoded by filamentous plant RNA viruses from three genera. The members of this family are predicted to have RNA silencing suppressor activity.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/patogenicidad , Nicotiana/virología , Interferencia de ARN , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/metabolismo , Replicón/fisiología , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/metabolismo , ADN Viral/genética , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Hojas de la Planta/virología , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , ARN Interferente Pequeño/genética , ARN Interferente Pequeño/metabolismo , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/química , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/genética , Replicón/genética , Rhizobium/genética , Proteínas Virales/genética
13.
J Virol ; 78(7): 3704-9, 2004 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15016890

RESUMEN

Cell-to-cell movement of beet yellows closterovirus requires four structural proteins and a 6-kDa protein (p6) that is a conventional, nonstructural movement protein. Here we demonstrate that either virus infection or p6 overexpression results in association of p6 with the rough endoplasmic reticulum. The p6 protein possesses a single-span, transmembrane, N-terminal domain and a hydrophilic, C-terminal domain that is localized on the cytoplasmic face of the endoplasmic reticulum. In the infected cells, p6 forms a disulfide bridge via a cysteine residue located near the protein's N terminus. Mutagenic analyses indicated that each of the p6 domains, as well as protein dimerization, is essential for p6 function in virus movement.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplásmico Rugoso/metabolismo , Proteínas de la Membrana/química , Proteínas de la Membrana/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/química , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Alanina/genética , Alanina/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Línea Celular , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/fisiología , Dimerización , Proteínas de la Membrana/genética , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Movimiento , Mutación , Proteínas de Movimiento Viral en Plantas , Conformación Proteica , Nicotiana/virología , Proteínas Virales/genética
14.
J Virol ; 77(5): 2843-9, 2003 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12584307

RESUMEN

The 66-kDa leader proteinase (L-Pro) of the Beet yellows virus (BYV) possesses a nonconserved N-terminal domain and a conserved, papain-like C-terminal domain. Previous work revealed that the N-terminal domain functions in RNA amplification, whereas the C-terminal domain is required for autoproteolysis. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis was applied to complete the functional analysis of L-Pro throughout the virus life cycle. This analysis indicated that the C-terminal domain of L-Pro, in addition to being required for proteolysis, also functions in RNA amplification and that these two functions are genetically separable. Examination of the role of L-Pro in BYV cell-to-cell movement revealed that none of the 20 examined replication-competent mutants was movement defective. In contrast, six of the L-Pro mutations affected the long-distance transport of BYV to various degrees, whereas three mutations completely abolished the transport. Because these mutations were located throughout the protein molecule, both domains of L-Pro function in virus transport. We conclude that in addition to previously identified functions of L-Pro, it also serves as the BYV long-distance transport factor.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Endopeptidasas/genética , Endopeptidasas/metabolismo , Portulacaceae/virología , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/fisiología , Endopeptidasas/química , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes , Proteínas Luminiscentes/genética , Proteínas Luminiscentes/metabolismo , Mutación , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Hojas de la Planta/virología , Nicotiana/virología , Replicación Viral
15.
J Virol ; 76(21): 11003-11, 2002 Nov.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12368343

RESUMEN

Systemic spread of viruses in plants involves local movement from cell to cell and long-distance transport through the vascular system. The cell-to-cell movement of the Beet yellows virus (BYV) is mediated by a movement protein that is an Hsp70 homolog (Hsp70h). This protein is required for the assembly of movement-competent virions that incorporate Hsp70h. By using the yeast two-hybrid system, in vitro coimmunoprecipitation, and in planta coexpression approaches, we show here that the Hsp70h interacts with a 20-kDa BYV protein (p20). We further demonstrate that p20 is associated with the virions presumably via binding to Hsp70h. Genetic and immunochemical analyses indicate that p20 is dispensable for assembly and cell-to-cell movement of BYV but is required for the long-distance transport of virus through the phloem. These results reveal a novel activity for the Hsp70h that provides a molecular link between the local and systemic spread of a plant virus by docking a long-distance transport factor to virions.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Proteínas Estructurales Virales/metabolismo , Closterovirus/genética , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/genética , Proteínas de Movimiento Viral en Plantas , Fracciones Subcelulares , Técnicas del Sistema de Dos Híbridos , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Estructurales Virales/genética , Virión/metabolismo
16.
Virology ; 295(2): 299-306, 2002 Apr 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12033789

RESUMEN

A tandem arrangement of the genes encoding the approximately 6-kDa hydrophobic protein (p6) and Hsp70 homolog (Hsp70h) is conserved among the members of the Closterovirus genus. It was not known, however, if these movement proteins are expressed from one or two subgenomic (sg) RNAs. Here we employ RNA ligase-mediated RACE to show that the Beet yellows virus (BYV), a prototype Closterovius, produces separate sgRNAs encoding p6 and Hsp70h. This result is further supported by generation of the recombinant BYV in which the truncated variants of these sgRNAs are resolved by Northern analysis. The 5'-termini of the p6 and Hsp70h sgRNAs are localized to BYV nucleotides G-9402 and A-9467, respectively. Each of the sgRNAs was generated in vitro and found to direct the expected product upon translation in wheat germ extract. Inactivation of the first start codons in these sgRNAs abolished translation of the each product. The polyclonal antibodies raised to synthetic C-terminal peptides of p6 and Hsp70h specifically recognized corresponding translation products, as well as p6 and Hsp70h produced in BYV-infected plants. Taken together with the previous work, our data demonstrate that expression of the BYV genome involves the formation of as many as seven sgRNAs.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Genoma Viral , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , ARN Mensajero/genética , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Secuencia de Bases , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/genética , Immunoblotting , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Proteínas de Movimiento Viral en Plantas , Biosíntesis de Proteínas , Protoplastos , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , ARN Viral/genética , ARN Viral/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virología , Transcripción Genética , Transfección , Proteínas Virales/genética
17.
J Virol ; 76(2): 473-83, 2002 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11752137

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a member of the Closteroviridae, has a 19.3-kb positive-stranded RNA genome that is organized into 12 open reading frames (ORFs) with the 10 3' genes expressed via a nested set of nine or ten 3'-coterminal subgenomic mRNAs (sgRNAs). Relatively large amounts of negative-stranded RNAs complementary to both genomic and sgRNAs accumulate in infected cells. As is characteristic of RNA viruses, wild-type CTV produced more positive than negative strands, with the plus-to-minus ratios of genomic and sgRNAs estimated at 10 to 20:1 and 40 to 50:1, respectively. However, a mutant with all of the 3' genes deleted replicated efficiently, but produced plus to minus strands at a markedly decreased ratio of 1 to 2:1. Deletion analysis of 3'-end genes revealed that the p23 ORF was involved in asymmetric RNA accumulation. A mutation which caused a frameshift after the fifth codon resulted in nearly symmetrical RNA accumulation, suggesting that the p23 protein, not a cis-acting element within the p23 ORF, controls asymmetric accumulation of CTV RNAs. Further in-frame deletion mutations in the p23 ORF suggested that amino acid residues 46 to 180, which contained RNA-binding and zinc finger domains, were indispensable for asymmetrical RNA accumulation, while the N-terminal 5 to 45 and C-terminal 181 to 209 amino acid residues were not absolutely required. Mutation of conserved cysteine residues to alanines in the zinc finger domain resulted in loss of activity of the p23 protein, suggesting involvement of the zinc finger in asymmetric RNA accumulation. The absence of p23 gene function was manifested by substantial increases in accumulation of negative-stranded RNAs and only modest decreases in positive-stranded RNAs. Moreover, the substantial decrease in the accumulation of negative-stranded coat protein (CP) sgRNA in the presence of the functional p23 gene resulted in a 12- to 15-fold increase in the expression of the CP gene. Apparently the excess negative-stranded sgRNA reduces the availability of the corresponding positive-stranded sgRNA as a messenger. Thus, the p23 protein controls asymmetric accumulation of CTV RNAs by downregulating negative-stranded RNA accumulation and indirectly increases expression of 3' genes.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Genoma Viral , ARN Viral/metabolismo , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Western Blotting , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Regulación Viral de la Expresión Génica , Genes Virales/genética , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Mutación/genética , Sistemas de Lectura Abierta/genética , Estructura Terciaria de Proteína , Protoplastos/virología , ARN Viral/biosíntesis , ARN Viral/genética , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/química , Proteínas de Unión al ARN/genética , Nicotiana/citología , Nicotiana/virología , Proteínas Virales/química , Proteínas Virales/genética , Replicación Viral/genética , Dedos de Zinc
18.
Virology ; 274(2): 246-54, 2000 Sep 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10964768

RESUMEN

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) has 10 3' open reading frames (ORFs) of unknown function except for the two coat proteins. The highest produced subgenomic RNAs are those of the major coat protein gene (p25) and the 3' most genes, p20 and p23. The proteins from three ORFs, p25, p27, and p20, were examined in the yeast two-hybrid assay for the interactions between themselves and to one another. The p20 protein exhibited a high affinity for itself, suggesting that it might aggregate in infected cells. The cytopathology of CTV infections includes characteristic paracrystalline and amorphous inclusions in the phloem elements of infected citrus. Polyclonal antiserum raised against the bacterial expressed p20 gene product detected a protein of approximately 22-23 kDa, which accumulated to relatively high levels in CTV-infected citrus, but not in healthy citrus. Immunogold localization using antibodies to p20 protein showed strong and specific labeling of the amorphous inclusion bodies present in CTV-infected cells. Mesophyll protoplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana transfected with a CTV mutant containing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) ORF fused in-frame to the 3' end of p20 protein ORF expressed high levels of GFP. The fusion protein was concentrated in one specific area in the cytoplasm and lacked an organized shape. Accumulation of high levels of p20 protein in infected tissue, specific localization of the p20-GFP fusion protein, immunolocalization of p20 protein into amorphous inclusions, and strong homologous p20 protein-p20 protein interactions in the yeast-two-hybrid assay suggest that the p20 protein of CTV is a major component of the amorphous inclusion bodies present in CTV-infected cells.


Asunto(s)
Citrus/virología , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Cuerpos de Inclusión Viral , Sistemas de Lectura Abierta/genética , Virus de Plantas/metabolismo , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Western Blotting , Citrus/citología , Citrus/genética , Citrus/ultraestructura , Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/ultraestructura , Sueros Inmunes , Cuerpos de Inclusión Viral/ultraestructura , Microscopía Electrónica , Peso Molecular , Mutación/genética , Enfermedades de las Plantas/virología , Virus de Plantas/genética , Virus de Plantas/ultraestructura , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente , Unión Proteica , Protoplastos , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/química , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusión/metabolismo , Técnicas del Sistema de Dos Híbridos , Proteínas Virales/química , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Virales/ultraestructura
19.
Virology ; 274(1): 232-9, 2000 Aug 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10936104

RESUMEN

An HSP70 homolog (HSP70h), encoded by the Closterovirus Beet yellows virus (BYV), functions in viral movement from cell to cell. A previous study revealed that in infected cells, HSP70h colocalizes with the masses of BYV filamentous virions. Here we demonstrate that HSP70h forms a physical complex with BYV virions. This conclusion is based on both the comigration of HSP70h with BYV virions in sucrose density gradients and the coimmunoprecipitation of the HSP70h and BYV capsid protein using anti-HSP70h serum. The HSP70h-virion complex is stable at high concentrations of sodium chloride; its dissociation using sodium dodecyl sulfate, lithium chloride, or alkaline pH was accompanied by virion disassembly. However, the complex formation does not involve covalent bonds between HSP70h and virion components. Each BYV virion contains approximately 10 molecules of HSP70h. The possible role of HSP70h interaction with the virions in cell-to-cell movement of BYV is discussed.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/metabolismo , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Virión/metabolismo , Animales , Anticuerpos Antivirales/inmunología , Cápside/inmunología , Cápside/metabolismo , Centrifugación por Gradiente de Densidad , Chenopodiaceae/virología , Proteínas HSP70 de Choque Térmico/inmunología , Plantas Tóxicas , Pruebas de Precipitina , Sacarosa , Nicotiana
20.
Virology ; 268(1): 192-200, 2000 Mar 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10683341

RESUMEN

A beet yellows closterovirus (BYV) variant expressing green fluorescent protein and leaves of BYV local lesion host Claytonia perfoliata were used to reveal genetic requirements for BYV cell-to-cell movement in leaf epidermis and mesophyll. A series of mutations targeting genes that are not involved in amplification of the viral positive-strand RNA was analyzed. The products of genes coding for a 6-kDa hydrophobic protein (p6) and a 64-kDa protein (p64), as well as for minor and major capsid proteins, were found to be essential for intercellular translocation of BYV. In a previous work, we have demonstrated that the BYV HSP70-homolog (HSP70h) also plays a critical role in viral movement (V. V. Peremyslov, Y. Hagiwara, and V. V. Dolja, 1999, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 14771-14776). Altogether, a unique protein quintet including three dedicated movement proteins (p6, p64, and HSP70h) and two structural proteins is required to potentiate the cell-to-cell movement of a closterovirus. The corresponding BYV genes are clustered in a block that is conserved among diverse representatives of the family Closteroviridae.


Asunto(s)
Closterovirus/genética , Closterovirus/fisiología , Plantas/virología , Cápside/metabolismo , Closterovirus/metabolismo , Proteínas Fluorescentes Verdes , Proteínas Luminiscentes/genética , Proteínas Luminiscentes/metabolismo , Movimiento , Hojas de la Planta/virología , Proteínas de Movimiento Viral en Plantas , ARN Viral/metabolismo , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa , Proteínas Virales/genética , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Proteínas Estructurales Virales/genética , Proteínas Estructurales Virales/metabolismo
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