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Populations of Eruca sativa (Brassicaceae) from desert and Mediterranean (Med) habitats in Israel differ in their defense against larvae of the generalist Spodoptera littoralis but not the specialist Pieris brassicae. Larvae of the generalist insect feeding on plants of the Med population gained significantly less weight than those feeding on the desert plants, and exogenous application of methyl jasmonate (MJ) on leaves of the Med plants significantly reduced the level of damage created by the generalist larvae. However, MJ treatment significantly induced resistance in plants of the desert population, whereas the generalist larvae caused similar damage to MJ-induced and noninduced plants. Analyses of glucosinolates and expression of genes in their synthesis pathway indicated that defense in plants of the Med population against the generalist insect is governed by the accumulation of glucosinolates. In plants of the desert population, trypsin proteinase inhibitor activity was highly induced in response to herbivory by S. littoralis. Analysis of genes in the defense-regulating signaling pathways suggested that in response to herbivory, differences between populations in the induced levels of jasmonic acid, ethylene, and salicylic acid mediate the differential defenses against the insect. In addition, expression analysis of myrosinase-associated protein NSP2 suggested that in plants of the desert population, glucosinolates breakdown products were primarily directed to nitrile production. We suggest that proteinase inhibitors provide an effective defense in the desert plants, in which glucosinolate production is directed to the less toxic nitriles. The ecological role of nitrile production in preventing infestation by specialists is discussed.
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The viral V2 protein is one of the key factors that Tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus (TYLCV), a major tomato pathogen worldwide, utilizes to combat the host defense. Besides suppressing the plant RNA silencing defense by targeting the host SGS3 component of the silencing machinery, V2 also interacts with the host CYP1 protein, a papain-like cysteine protease likely involved in hypersensitive response reactions. The biological effects of the V2-CYP1 interaction, however, remain unknown. We addressed this question by demonstrating that V2 inhibits the enzymatic activity of CYP1, but does not interfere with post-translational maturation of this protein.
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Begomovirus/fisiologia , Cisteína Proteases/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais/fisiologia , Western Blotting , Processamento de Proteína Pós-Traducional , ProteóliseRESUMO
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a major tomato pathogen causing extensive crop losses, is a whitefly-transmitted geminivirus. V2 mutants of TYLCV-Is and related viruses tend to induce symptomless infection with attenuated viral DNA levels, while accumulating close to wild-type DNA levels in protoplasts, suggesting V2 as a movement protein. The discovery of plant-silencing mechanisms and viral silencing suppressors, V2 included, led us to reconsider V2׳s involvement in viral movement. We studied two mutant versions of the virus, one impaired in V2 silencing-suppression activity, and another carrying a non-translatable V2. While both mutant viruses spread in the infected plant to newly emerged leaves at the same rate as the wild-type virus, their DNA-accumulation levels were tenfold lower than in the wild-type virus. Thus, we suggest that the setback in virus proliferation, previously ascribed to a movement impediment, is due to lack of silencing-suppression activity.
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Begomovirus/fisiologia , Proteínas do Movimento Viral em Plantas/metabolismo , Replicação Viral , Begomovirus/genética , Técnicas de Inativação de Genes , Proteínas do Movimento Viral em Plantas/genética , Nicotiana/virologiaRESUMO
One the most intriguing, yet least studied, aspects of the bacterium-host plant interaction is the role of the host ubiquitin/proteasome system (UPS) in the infection process. Increasing evidence indicates that pathogenic bacteria subvert the host UPS to facilitate infection. Although both mammalian and plant bacterial pathogens are known to use the host UPS, the first prokaryotic F-box protein, an essential component of UPS, was identified in Agrobacterium. During its infection, which culminates in genetic modification of the host cell, Agrobacterium transfers its T-DNA--as a complex (T-complex) with the bacterial VirE2 and host VIP1 proteins--into the host cell nucleus. There the T-DNA is uncoated from its protein components before undergoing integration into the host genome. It has been suggested that the host UPS mediates this uncoating process, but there is no evidence indicating that this activity can unmask the T-DNA molecule. Here we provide support for the idea that the plant UPS uncoats synthetic T-complexes via the Skp1/Cullin/F-box protein VBF pathway and exposes the T-DNA molecule to external enzymatic activity.
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Agrobacterium/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , DNA Bacteriano/metabolismo , Substâncias Macromoleculares/metabolismo , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Transformação Genética/fisiologia , Transporte Ativo do Núcleo Celular , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Western Blotting , Primers do DNA/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno/fisiologia , Canais Iônicos/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , NicotianaRESUMO
The V2 protein of Tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus (TYLCV) is an RNA-silencing suppressor that counteracts the innate immune response of the host plant. However, this anti-host defense function of V2 may include targeting of other defensive mechanisms of the plant. Specifically, we show that V2 recognizes and directly binds the tomato CYP1 protein, a member of the family of papain-like cysteine proteases which are involved in plant defense against diverse pathogens. This binding occurred both in vitro and in vivo, within living plant cells. The V2 binding site within mCYP1 was identified in the direct proximity to the papain-like cysteine protease active site.
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Begomovirus/metabolismo , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno , Papaína/metabolismo , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Solanum lycopersicum/enzimologia , Solanum lycopersicum/virologia , Proteínas Virais/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Papaína/química , Proteínas de Plantas/química , Ligação Proteica , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismoRESUMO
Bhendi yellow vein mosaic disease is caused by a complex consisting of a monopartite begomovirus associated with a ß-satellite. The C2 protein of bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus (BYVMV) is a suppressor of post-transcriptional gene silencing and also functions as a transcriptional activator. To explore the molecular mechanisms of its nuclear trafficking and self-interaction, fusion proteins of fluorescent proteins with wild-type or mutated constructs of BYVMV C2 were expressed in tobacco protoplasts. Analyses revealed that the BYVMV C2 nuclear localization signal (NLS) was located in the N terminus of the protein, comprising aa 17-31 of C2. NLSs are recognized by a class of soluble transport receptors termed karyopherins α and ß. The BYVMV C2 NLS was found to be necessary for this protein's interaction with its nuclear import mediator, karyopherin α, ensuring its nuclear localization. Nevertheless, when deleted, C2 was found in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus, suggesting NLS-independent nuclear import of this protein. Homotypic interaction of BYVMV C2 was also found, which correlates with the nuclear localization needed for efficient activation of transcription.
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Begomovirus/metabolismo , Sinais de Localização Nuclear , Doenças das Plantas/virologia , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais/química , Proteínas Virais/metabolismo , alfa Carioferinas/metabolismo , Motivos de Aminoácidos , Begomovirus/química , Begomovirus/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Ligação Proteica , Transporte Proteico , Nicotiana/metabolismo , Nicotiana/virologia , Proteínas Virais/genética , alfa Carioferinas/genéticaRESUMO
Macromolecules may transfer between the cytoplasm and the nucleus only through specific gates - the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). Translocation of nucleic acids and large proteins requires the presence of a nuclear localization signal (NLS) within the transported molecule. This NLS is recognized by a class of soluble transport receptors termed karyopherins α and beta. We previously characterized the expression pattern of the tomato karyopherin α 1 (LeKAPα1) promoter in transformed tobacco plants. Expression of LeKAPα1 was mainly observed in growing tissues where cell division and extension is rapid. The expression pattern of LeKAPα1 resembled that of auxin-responsive genes. This led us to suggest that auxin participates in the regulation of LeKAPα1 expression. Here we characterized the correlation between auxin level and the activity of the LeKAPα1 promoter. To this end, transgenic tobacco plants carrying the GUS reporter gene under the control of the LeKAPα1 promoter were treated with various levels of exogenous auxin. We also studied transgenic plants in which we increased the endogenous levels of auxin. For this, we expressed in plants both the LeKAPα1 promoter-GUS reporter and the Agrobacterium tumefaciens iaaM gene, which increases the endogenous levels of auxin. The results indicate that the auxin indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) can induce LeKAPα1 expression. We also identified that the sites and levels of LeKAPα1 expression correlated with the endogenous pathways of polar auxin transport.
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Ácidos Indolacéticos/farmacologia , Nicotiana/metabolismo , Solanum lycopersicum/metabolismo , alfa Carioferinas/metabolismo , Polaridade Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas/efeitos dos fármacos , Glucuronidase/metabolismo , Solanum lycopersicum/efeitos dos fármacos , Feixe Vascular de Plantas/anatomia & histologia , Feixe Vascular de Plantas/citologia , Feixe Vascular de Plantas/efeitos dos fármacos , Feixe Vascular de Plantas/metabolismo , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas , Plasmídeos/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Nicotiana/efeitos dos fármacos , Nicotiana/genética , alfa Carioferinas/genéticaRESUMO
The capsid protein (CP) of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus-Israel (TYLCV-IL), encoded by the v1 gene, is the only known component of the viral capsid. Three point mutations introduced into the conserved NLS region of the CP were investigated. One mutant, in which the Arg at position 19 was converted to Leu, had the most significant effect on the CP-CP homotypic interaction as well as on CP's interaction with its nuclear receptor karyopherin α1 and with the protein GroEL. The latter has been suggested to protect the virions in the insect vector hemolymph. These effects were first observed by yeast two-hybrid assay and then confirmed in tobacco protoplasts by measuring fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between YFP- and CFP-tagged proteins. Most importantly, when the point mutation converting Arg 19 to Leu was introduced into the full-length TYLCV genome, it disrupted its ability to cause symptoms.
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Begomovirus/patogenicidade , Proteínas do Capsídeo/metabolismo , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno , Doenças das Plantas/virologia , Mutação Puntual , Substituição de Aminoácidos/genética , Begomovirus/genética , Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Chaperonina 60/metabolismo , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Transferência Ressonante de Energia de Fluorescência , Solanum lycopersicum/virologia , Ligação Proteica , Nicotiana/virologia , Técnicas do Sistema de Duplo-Híbrido , alfa Carioferinas/metabolismoRESUMO
The ubiquitin/26S proteasome pathway is a basic biological mechanism involved in the regulation of a multitude of cellular processes. Increasing evidence indicates that plants utilize the ubiquitin/26S proteasome pathway in their immune response to pathogen invasion, emphasizing the role of this pathway during plant-pathogen interactions. The specific functions of proteasomal degradation in plant-pathogen interactions are diverse, and do not always benefit the host plant. Although in some cases, proteasomal degradation serves as an effective barrier to help plants ward off pathogens, in others, it is used by the pathogen to enhance the infection process. This review discusses the different roles of the ubiquitin/26S proteasome pathway during interactions of plants with pathogenic viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
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Plantas/microbiologia , Plantas/virologia , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/fisiologia , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Inativação Gênica , Sistema Imunitário , Modelos Biológicos , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/química , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Pseudomonas syringae/metabolismo , RNA Viral/metabolismo , Rhizobium/metabolismo , Nicotiana/genética , Vírus do Mosaico do Tabaco/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais/químicaRESUMO
The application of novel assays for basic cell research is tightly linked to the development of easy-to-use and versatile tools and protocols for implementing such technologies for a wide range of applications and model species. The bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay is one such novel method for which tools and protocols for its application in plant cell research are still being developed. BiFC is a powerful tool which enables not only detection, but also visualization and subcellular localization of protein-protein interactions in living cells. Here we describe the application of BiFC in plant cells while focusing on the use of our versatile set of vectors which were specifically designed to facilitate the transformation, expression and imaging of protein-protein interactions in various plant species. We discuss the considerations of using our system in various plant model systems, the use of single versus multiple expression cassettes, the application of our vectors using various transformation methods and the use of internal fluorescent markers which can assist in signal localization and easy data acquisition in living cells.
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Proteínas Luminescentes/análise , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Plantas/metabolismo , Mapeamento de Interação de Proteínas/métodos , Bioensaio/métodos , Biomarcadores/análise , Corantes Fluorescentes/análise , Corantes Fluorescentes/metabolismo , Vetores Genéticos , Proteínas Luminescentes/genética , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Mutagênese Insercional , Plantas/genética , Plasmídeos , Ligação Proteica , Protoplastos/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/análise , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismo , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/efeitos da radiação , Transfecção , Transformação GenéticaRESUMO
The V2 protein of tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus (TYLCV) functions as an RNA-silencing suppressor that counteracts the innate immune response of the host plant. The host-cell target of V2, however, remains unknown. Here we show that V2 interacts directly with SlSGS3, the tomato homolog of the Arabidopsis SGS3 protein (AtSGS3), which is known to be involved in the RNA-silencing pathway. SlSGS3 genetically complemented an AtSGS3 mutation and restored RNA silencing, indicating that SlSGS3 is indeed a functional homolog of AtSGS3. A point mutant of V2 that is unable to bind SlSGS3 also lost its ability to suppress RNA silencing, suggesting a correlation between the V2-SlSGS3 interaction in planta and the suppressor activity of V2.
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Begomovirus/metabolismo , Interferência de RNA , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Transferência Ressonante de Energia de Fluorescência/métodos , Teste de Complementação Genética , Microscopia de Fluorescência , Modelos Biológicos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mutação , Fases de Leitura Aberta , Plasmídeos/metabolismo , Ligação Proteica , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Técnicas do Sistema de Duplo-Híbrido , Proteínas Virais/químicaRESUMO
Nuclear proteins are involved in many critical biological processes within plant cells and, therefore, are in the focus of studies that usually begin with demonstrating that the protein of interest indeed exhibits nuclear localization. Thus, studies of plant nuclear proteins would be facilitated by a convenient experimental system for identification of proteins that are actively imported into the cell nucleus and visualization of their nuclear accumulation in vivo. To this end, we developed a system of vectors that allows screening for cDNAs coding for nuclear proteins in a simple genetic assay in yeast cells, and verification of nuclear accumulation in planta following one-step transfer and autofluorescent tagging of the identified clones into a multiple cloning site-compatible and reading frame-compatible plant expression vector. In a recommended third experimental step, the plant expression cassette containing the identified clone can be transferred, also by a one-step cloning, into a binary multigene expression vector for transient or stable coexpression with any other proteins.
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Biblioteca Gênica , Vetores Genéticos , Proteínas Nucleares/metabolismo , Plantas/metabolismo , Plasmídeos , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Sequência de Bases , Biolística , Expressão Gênica , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Fases de Leitura Aberta , Plantas/genética , Rhizobium/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genéticaRESUMO
The coat protein (CP) of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), encoded by the v1 gene, is the only known component of the viral capsid. In addition, the CP plays a role in the virus transport into the host cell nucleus where viral genes are replicated and transcribed. In this study, we analyzed the effect of small interfering double-stranded RNAs (siRNAs), derived from an intron-hairpin RNA (ihpRNA) construct and targeting the v1 gene product, on CP accumulation. Transient assays involving agroinfiltration of the CP-silencing construct followed by infiltration of a fused GFP-CP (green fluorescent protein-coat protein) gene showed down-regulation of GFP expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. Some of the transgenic tomato plants (cv. Micro-Tom), expressing the siRNA targeted against the TYLCV CP gene, did not show disease symptoms 7 weeks post-inoculation with the virus, while non-transgenic control plants were infected within 2 weeks post inoculation. The present study demonstrates, for the first time, that siRNA targeted against the CP of TYLCV can confer resistance to the virus in transgenic tomato plants, thereby enabling flowering and fruit production.
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Proteínas do Capsídeo/antagonistas & inibidores , Doenças das Plantas/genética , Doenças das Plantas/virologia , RNA Interferente Pequeno/metabolismo , Solanum lycopersicum/virologia , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/genética , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/fisiologia , Proteínas do Capsídeo/genética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/análise , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Solanum lycopersicum/citologia , Solanum lycopersicum/genética , Microscopia Confocal , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/genética , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas/virologia , Estabilidade de RNA , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , Nicotiana/genética , Transcrição GênicaRESUMO
The Israeli isolate of Tomato yellow leaf curl geminivirus (TYLCV-Is) is a major tomato pathogen, causing extensive crop losses both in the New and Old World. Surprisingly, however, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of TYLCV-Is interactions with tomato cells. Here, we have identified a TYLCV-Is protein, V2, which acts as a suppressor of RNA silencing and which is unrelated to presently known viral suppressors. Specifically, V2, but not other proteins of TYLCV-Is, inhibited RNA silencing of a reporter transgene, GFP. This inhibition elevated the cellular levels of the GFP transcript and the GFP protein, but it had no apparent effect on the accumulation of GFP-specific short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), suggesting that TYLCV-Is V2 targets a step in the RNA silencing pathway which is subsequent to the Dicer-mediated cleavage of dsRNA. Visualization of the sub-cellular localization of TYLCV-Is V2 in plant protoplasts and tissues showed that this protein is associated with cytoplasmic strands and inclusion bodies in the cortical regions of the cell.
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Begomovirus/patogenicidade , Interferência de RNA , Solanum lycopersicum/virologia , Proteínas Virais/fisiologia , Begomovirus/genética , Western Blotting , Citoplasma/química , Genes Reporter , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/biossíntese , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Corpos de Inclusão/química , Microscopia Confocal , Protoplastos/química , RNA Mensageiro/análise , RNA Interferente Pequeno/análise , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Proteínas Virais/genética , Proteínas Virais/metabolismoRESUMO
Agrobacterium most likely can transform virtually all known plant species, and experimental protocols for Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of yet more plant species, ecotypes, and cultivars are published almost on a daily basis. Interestingly, the Agrobacterium host range is not limited to the plant kingdom, and it has been shown to transform many species of fungi and even prokaryotes. The ability of Agrobacterium to genetically transform HeLa cells further widens the range of potential hosts of Agrobacterium to include humans and perhaps other animal species. Furthermore, because mammalian cells significantly differ from plant cells, they provide a useful experimental system for identification and functional characterization of plant-specific factors involved in the transformation process. Here, we present basic procedures for transfection and Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of mammalian cells. We also demonstrate the use of mammalian cells for studies of the cellular components of the genetic transformation pathway.
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens/genética , Células HeLa , Transformação Genética , Agrobacterium tumefaciens/citologia , Animais , Técnicas de Cultura de Células , Técnicas de Cocultura , Meios de Cultura , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/análise , Humanos , Reação em Cadeia da PolimeraseRESUMO
Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) represents one of the most advanced and powerful tools for studying and visualizing protein-protein interactions in living cells. In this method, putative interacting protein partners are fused to complementary non-fluorescent fragments of an autofluorescent protein, such as the yellow spectral variant of the green fluorescent protein. Interaction of the test proteins may result in reconstruction of fluorescence if the two portions of yellow spectral variant of the green fluorescent protein are brought together in such a way that they can fold properly. BiFC provides an assay for detection of protein-protein interactions, and for the subcellular localization of the interacting protein partners. To facilitate the application of BiFC to plant research, we designed a series of vectors for easy construction of N-terminal and C-terminal fusions of the target protein to the yellow spectral variant of the green fluorescent protein fragments. These vectors carry constitutive expression cassettes with an expanded multi-cloning site. In addition, these vectors facilitate the assembly of BiFC expression cassettes into Agrobacterium multi-gene expression binary plasmids for co-expression of interacting partners and additional autofluorescent proteins that may serve as internal transformation controls and markers of subcellular compartments. We demonstrate the utility of these vectors for the analysis of specific protein-protein interactions in various cellular compartments, including the nucleus, plasmodesmata, and chloroplasts of different plant species and cell types.
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Proteínas Luminescentes/genética , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Plantas/metabolismo , Bioensaio , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Compartimento Celular , Dimerização , Eletroporação , Corantes Fluorescentes , Vetores Genéticos , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/metabolismo , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Microscopia Confocal , Modelos Biológicos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Células Vegetais , Proteínas de Plantas/química , Proteínas de Plantas/genética , Plantas/química , Plantas/genética , Plasmídeos , Ligação Proteica , Multimerização Proteica , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/química , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/metabolismoRESUMO
The plant-infecting geminiviruses deliver their genome and viral proteins into the host cell nucleus. Members of the family Geminiviridae possess either a bipartite genome composed of two approximately 2.6 kb DNAs or a monopartite genome of approximately 3.0 kb DNA. The bipartite genome of Bean dwarf mosaic virus (BDMV) encodes several karyophilic proteins, among them the capsid protein (CP) and BV1 (nuclear shuttle protein). A CP is also encoded by the monopartite genome of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV). Here, an in vitro assay system was used for direct demonstration of nuclear import of BDMV BV1 and TYLCV CP, as well as synthetic peptides containing their putative nuclear localization signals (NLSs). Full-length recombinant BDMV BV1 and TYLCV CP mediated import of conjugated fluorescently labelled BSA molecules into nuclei of permeabilized mammalian cells. Fluorescently labelled and biotinylated BSA conjugates bearing the synthetic peptides containing aa 3-20 of TYLCV CP (CP-NLS) or aa 84-106 of BDMV BV1 (BV1-NLS) were also imported into the nuclei of permeabilized cells. This import was blocked by the addition of unlabelled BSA-NLS peptide conjugates or excess unlabelled free NLS peptides. The CP- and BV1-NLS peptides also mediated nuclear import of fluorescently labelled BSA molecules into the nuclei of microinjected mesophyll cells of Nicotiana benthamiana leaves, demonstrating their biological function in intact plant tissue. BV1-NLS and CP-NLS were shown to mediate specific binding to importin alpha, both in vitro and in vivo. These results are consistent with a common nuclear-import pathway for CP and BV1, probably via importin alpha.
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Geminiviridae/fisiologia , Proteínas Virais/fisiologia , Transporte Ativo do Núcleo Celular , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Bovinos , Linhagem Celular , Geminiviridae/genética , Geminiviridae/patogenicidade , Células HeLa , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Carioferinas/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Sinais de Localização Nuclear , Plantas/virologia , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/metabolismo , Soroalbumina Bovina/metabolismo , Proteínas Virais/química , Proteínas Virais/genéticaRESUMO
SUMMARY Nuclear import and export are crucial processes for any eukaryotic cell, as they govern substrate exchange between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Proteins involved in the nuclear transport network are generally conserved among eukaryotes, from yeast and fungi to animals and plants. Various pathogens, including some plant viruses, need to enter the host nucleus to gain access to its replication machinery or to integrate their DNA into the host genome; the newly replicated viral genomes then need to exit the nucleus to spread between host cells. To gain the ability to enter and exit the nucleus, these pathogens encode proteins that recognize cellular nuclear transport receptors and utilize the host's nuclear import and export pathways. Here, we review and discuss our current knowledge about the molecular mechanisms by which plant viruses find their way into and out of the host cell nucleus.
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Cell-to-cell tobacco mosaic virus movement protein (TMV MP) mediates viral spread between the host cells through plasmodesmata. Although several host factors have been shown to interact with TMV MP, none of them coresides with TMV MP within plasmodesmata. We used affinity purification to isolate a tobacco protein that binds TMV MP and identified it as calreticulin. The interaction between TMV MP and calreticulin was confirmed in vivo and in vitro, and both proteins were shown to share a similar pattern of subcellular localization to plasmodesmata. Elevation of the intracellular levels of calreticulin severely interfered with plasmodesmal targeting of TMV MP, which, instead, was redirected to the microtubular network. Furthermore, in TMV-infected plant tissues overexpressing calreticulin, the inability of TMV MP to reach plasmodesmata substantially impaired cell-to-cell movement of the virus. Collectively, these observations suggest a functional relationship between calreticulin, TMV MP, and viral cell-to-cell movement.
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Calreticulina/fisiologia , Vírus do Mosaico do Tabaco/fisiologia , Proteínas não Estruturais Virais/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Calreticulina/química , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Regulação Viral da Expressão Gênica , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Movimento , Plantas Geneticamente Modificadas , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Nicotiana/metabolismo , Proteínas não Estruturais Virais/químicaRESUMO
Rhizobium rhizogenes, a soil bacterium, is the causative agent of the neoplastic disease hairy root. Upon incubation of Rhizobium rhizogenes A4 with coniferyl alcohol, a lignin precursor, bacterial virulence on cotton cotyledon slices was stimulated. This was observed both in numbers of root hairs produced and in their length. Stimulation was maximized after exposure of bacteria to 150 microg/mL of coniferyl alcohol for 4 h. This was shown to be at the early log phase of bacterial growth.