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Vega-Rocha S, Byeon IJL, Gronenborn B, Gronenborn AM, Campos-Olivas R. Solution structure, divalent metal and DNA binding of the endonuclease domain from the replication initiation protein from porcine circovirus 2. J Mol Biol 2007; 367:473-87. [PMID: 17275023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2006] [Revised: 12/30/2006] [Accepted: 01/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Circoviruses are the smallest circular single-stranded DNA viruses able to replicate in mammalian cells. Essential to their replication is the replication initiator, or Rep protein that initiates the rolling circle replication (RCR) of the viral genome. Here we report the NMR solution three-dimensional structure of the endonuclease domain from the Rep protein of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), the causative agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in swine. The domain comprises residues 12-112 of the full-length protein and exhibits the fold described previously for the Rep protein of the representative geminivirus tomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus. The structure, however, differs significantly in some secondary structure elements that decorate the central five-stranded beta-sheet, including the replacement of a beta-hairpin by an alpha-helix in PCV2 Rep. The identification of the divalent metal binding site was accomplished by following the paramagnetic broadening of NMR amide signals upon Mn(2+) titration. The site comprises three conserved acidic residues on the exposed face of the central beta-sheet. For the 1:1 complex of the PCV2 Rep nuclease domain with a 22mer double-stranded DNA oligonucleotide chemical shift mapping allowed the identification of the DNA binding site on the protein and aided in constructing a model of the protein/DNA complex.
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- Susana Vega-Rocha
- Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid 28029, Spain
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Herrera-Valencia VA, Dugdale B, Harding RM, Dale JL. An iterated sequence in the genome of Banana bunchy top virus is essential for efficient replication. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:3409-3412. [PMID: 17030877 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82166-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) has a multi-component genome of circular, single-stranded DNA. BBTV replicates via a rolling-circle mechanism, probably involving sequence-specific interaction of the replication initiation protein (Rep) with iterated sequences (iterons) within the viral genome. Three putative iterons (designated F1, F2 and R), with the sequence GGGAC, have been identified in the intergenic region of each BBTV component. To investigate their role in replication, each of the iterons was mutated, singularly and in tandem, in a BBTV DNA-N 1.1mer and the ability of these molecules to be replicated by the BBTV 'master' Rep was evaluated in banana cells using transient biolistic assays. All iteron mutants were replicated less efficiently than the native DNA-N. Mutation of the F1 and R iterons caused a 42 and 62 % reduction in DNA-N replication, respectively, whereas mutation of the F2 and combined F1F2 iteron virtually abolished DNA-N replication.
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- Science Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- Science Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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- Science Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
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Steinfeldt T, Finsterbusch T, Mankertz A. Demonstration of nicking/joining activity at the origin of DNA replication associated with the rep and rep' proteins of porcine circovirus type 1. J Virol 2006; 80:6225-34. [PMID: 16775310 PMCID: PMC1488954 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02506-05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The replication of porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) is thought to occur by rolling-circle replication (RCR), whereby the introduction of a single-strand break generates a free 3'-hydroxyl group serving as a primer for subsequent DNA synthesis. The covalently closed, single-stranded genome of PCV1 replicates via a double-stranded replicative intermediate, and the two virus-encoded replication-associated proteins Rep and Rep' have been demonstrated to be necessary for virus replication. However, although postulated to be involved in RCR-based virus replication, the mechanism of action of Rep and Rep' is as yet unknown. In this study, the ability of PCV1 Rep and Rep' to "nick" and "join" strand discontinuities within synthetic oligonucleotides corresponding to the origin of replication of PCV1 was investigated in vitro. Both proteins were demonstrated to be able to cleave the viral strand between nucleotides 7 and 8 within the conserved nonanucleotide motif (5'-TAGTATTAC-3') located at the apex of a putative stem-loop structure. In addition, the Rep and Rep' proteins of PCV1 were demonstrated to be capable of joining viral single-stranded DNA fragments, suggesting that these proteins also play roles in the termination of virus DNA replication. This joining activity was demonstrated to be strictly dependent on preceding substrate cleavage and the close proximity of origin fragments accomplished by base pairing in the stem-loop structure. The dual "nicking/joining" activities associated with PCV1 Rep and Rep' are pivotal events underlying the RCR-based replication of porcine circoviruses in mammalian cells.
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- Tobias Steinfeldt
- Division of Viral Infections (FG12), Robert Koch-Institute, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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Timchenko T, Katul L, Aronson M, Vega-Arreguín JC, Ramirez BC, Vetten HJ, Gronenborn B. Infectivity of nanovirus DNAs: induction of disease by cloned genome components of Faba bean necrotic yellows virus. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:1735-1743. [PMID: 16690940 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81753-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that the genome of Faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBNYV), a nanovirus, consists of eight distinct, circular, single-stranded DNAs, each of about 1 kb and encoding only one protein. Here, the use of cloned full-length FBNYV DNAs for reproducing FBNYV-like symptoms in Vicia faba, the principal natural host of FBNYV, is reported. Characteristic symptoms of FBNYV infection were obtained in faba bean plants following biolistic DNA delivery or agroinoculation with all eight FBNYV DNAs. Although the eight different DNAs have been invariably detected in field samples infected with the various geographical FBNYV isolates, experimental infection with different combinations of fewer than eight DNAs also led to typical FBNYV symptoms. Even only five genome components, DNA-R, DNA-S, DNA-M, DNA-U1 and DNA-U2, were sufficient for inducing disease symptoms in V. faba upon agroinoculation. Symptomatic plants agroinoculated or bombarded with eight DNAs contained typical FBNYV virions; however, the virus was not transmitted by Aphis craccivora or Acyrthosiphon pisum, two efficient aphid vectors of FBNYV.
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- T Timchenko
- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Institut für Pflanzenvirologie, Mikrobiologie und Biologische Sicherheit, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land und Forstwirtschaft, Institut für Pflanzenvirologie, Mikrobiologie und Biologische Sicherheit, Messeweg 11-12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Briddon RW, Stanley J. Subviral agents associated with plant single-stranded DNA viruses. Virology 2006; 344:198-210. [PMID: 16364750 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2005] [Accepted: 09/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Begomoviruses (family Geminiviridae) are responsible for many economically important crop diseases worldwide. The majority of these diseases are caused by bipartite begomovirus infections, although a rapidly growing number of diseases of the Old World are associated with monopartite begomoviruses. With the exception of several diseases of tomato, most of these are caused by a monopartite begomovirus in association with a recently discovered essential satellite component (DNA-beta). These begomovirus/satellite disease complexes are widespread and diverse and collectively infect a wide variety of crops, weeds and ornamental plants. Non-essential subviral components (DNA-1) originating from nanoviruses are frequently associated with these disease complexes, and there are tantalizing hints that further novel satellites may also be associated with some begomovirus diseases. DNA-beta components can be maintained in permissive plants by more than one distinct begomovirus, reflecting less stringent requirements for trans-replication that will undoubtedly encourage diversification and adaptation as a consequence of component exchange and recombination. In view of their impact on agriculture, there is a pressing need to develop a more comprehensive picture of the diversity and distribution of the disease complexes. A greater understanding of how they elicit the host response may provide useful information for their control as well as an insight into plant developmental processes.
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- R W Briddon
- Plant Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Vega-Arreguín JC, Timchenko T, Gronenborn B, Ramírez BC. A functional histidine-tagged replication initiator protein: implications for the study of single-stranded DNA virus replication in planta. J Virol 2005; 79:8422-30. [PMID: 15956586 PMCID: PMC1143747 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.13.8422-8430.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Replication initiation of nanoviruses, plant viruses with a multipartite circular single-stranded DNA genome, is triggered by the master Rep (M-Rep) protein. To enable the study of interactions between M-Rep and viral or host factors involved in replication, we designed oligohistidine-tagged variants of the nanovirus Faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBNYV) M-Rep protein that allow affinity purification of enzymatically active M-Rep from plant tissue. The tagged M-Rep protein was able to initiate replication of its cognate and other FBNYV DNAs in Nicotiana benthamiana leaf disks and plants. The replicon encoding the tagged M-Rep protein multiplied and moved systemically in FBNYV-infected Vicia faba plants and was transmitted by the aphid vector of the virus. Using the tagged M-Rep protein, we demonstrated the in planta interaction between wild-type M-Rep and its tagged counterpart. Such a tagged and fully functional replication initiator protein will have bearings on the isolation of protein complexes from plants.
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- Julio C Vega-Arreguín
- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, Bât. 23, 91198 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Nanoviruses, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) plant viruses with a multipartite genome, share similarities with members of the Circoviridae family that infect mammals or birds as well as with the Geminiviridae, the only other plant virus family with circular ssDNA genomes. Although the virions of the latter are unique and different from that of the circoviruses, the mode of replication of viruses with monopartite or multipartite circular ssDNA genomes is strikingly similar. They multiply by rolling circle replication using virus-encoded multifunctional replication initiator proteins (Rep proteins) that catalyse initiation of ssDNA replication and resolution of replicative ssDNA into circular single-stranded virion DNA. All these ssDNA viruses exploit host polymerases for DNA synthesis and code for proteins that modulate the host's cell cycle favourably for virus multiplication. Recent three-dimensional structure analyses of a geminivirus and a parvovirus Rep protein have revealed an intriguing similarity between the catalytic domains of their respective Rep proteins. Furthermore, these structural data revealed that ssDNA virus replication initiator proteins might represent evolutionary intermediates between certain RNA-binding proteins and some multifunctional origin-binding proteins of papovaviruses.
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- Bruno Gronenborn
- Institut des Sciences Végétales, CNRS, 91198, Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Gleba Y, Marillonnet S, Klimyuk V. Engineering viral expression vectors for plants: the 'full virus' and the 'deconstructed virus' strategies. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2004; 7:182-8. [PMID: 15003219 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Plant viral vectors are being successfully developed and exploited for the industrial-scale expression of heterologous proteins and as a research tool for studies of gene expression. The initial engineering strategy (the 'full virus' vector strategy) aimed to design a vector that was essentially a wildtype virus, which was modified to carry and express a heterologous sequence that encoded a gene of interest. The new emerging trend (the 'deconstructed virus' vector strategy) reflects an ideology that recognises the inherent limitations of the viral process. It attempts to 'deconstruct' the virus, by eliminating functions that are limiting or undesired, and to rebuild it, either by delegating the missing necessary functions to the host (which is genetically modified to provide those functions) or by replacing them with analogous functions that are not derived from a virus.
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- Yuri Gleba
- Biozentrum Halle, Weinbergweg 22, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Hughes AL. Birth-and-death evolution of protein-coding regions and concerted evolution of non-coding regions in the multi-component genomes of nanoviruses. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2004; 30:287-94. [PMID: 14715221 DOI: 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00189-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genomes of the four plant viruses of the genus Nanovirus consist of multiple circular single-stranded DNA components, each of which encodes a single protein. Protein phylogenies supported the hypothesis that faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBNYV) and milk vetch disease virus (MDV) are sister taxa; that subterranean clover stunt virus (SCSV) branched next; and that banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is an outgroup to the three other species. The phylogeny of replication (Rep) proteins indicate that this small viral multi-gene family has evolved by a process of duplication and subsequent loss of Rep-encoding genome components, analogous to the "birth-and-death" process of evolution which has been described in eukaryotic multi-gene families. By contrast, repeated recombinational events between components were found to have homogenized the non-coding portions of several components encoding unrelated components. For example, as result of recent recombination a portion of the non-coding region is virtually identical among SCSV components 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Thus, there is a process of concerted evolution of non-coding regions of Nanovirus genome components, which raises the possibility that certain non-coding regions are subject to functional constraint.
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- Austin L Hughes
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Coker Life Sciences Building, 700 Sumter St, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
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Luque A, Sanz-Burgos AP, Ramirez-Parra E, Castellano MM, Gutierrez C. Interaction of geminivirus Rep protein with replication factor C and its potential role during geminivirus DNA replication. Virology 2002; 302:83-94. [PMID: 12429518 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2002.1599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Geminivirus DNA replication during the rolling-circle stage depends on the use of a DNA primer, a strategy poorly understood as compared with other eukaryotic viral systems that rely on RNA or protein as primers. Here we have used wheat dwarf virus (WDV) with the aim of elucidating the events leading to recruitment of cell factors at the replication origin. We have identified a novel interaction of WDV Rep, the replication initiation protein, with the large subunit of the wheat replication factor C complex (TmRFC-1). In other systems, the heteropentameric RFC clamp loader complex stimulates loading of DNA polymerase delta to the primer-template. Expression of TmRFC-1 is subjected to cell-cycle regulation, with a peak in early S-phase. We show that WDV Rep stimulates binding of recombinant TmRFC-1 to a model substrate containing a 3'-OH terminus and a WDV Rep-binding site. This was confirmed using cellular fractions enriched for wheat RFC complex, supporting the idea that, in addition to generating a 3'-OH terminus during initiation of DNA replication, WDV Rep could participate in the recruitment of RFC to the newly formed primer. We propose that this pathway may represent an initial event to facilitate the assembly of other replication factors, e.g., PCNA and/or DNA polymerase delta, a model that could also apply to other eukaryotic replicons, such as nanoviruses, circoviruses, and parvoviruses with a similar DNA replication strategy.
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- Alejandro Luque
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Aronson MN, Complainville A, Clérot D, Alcalde H, Katul L, Vetten HJ, Gronenborn B, Timchenko T. In planta protein-protein interactions assessed using a nanovirus-based replication and expression system. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2002; 31:767-775. [PMID: 12220267 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.2002.01388.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The multipartite genome of the nanovirus Faba bean necrotic yellows virus, which consists of one gene on each DNA component, was exploited to construct a series of virus-based episomal vectors designed for transient replication and gene expression in plants. This nanovirus based expression system yields high levels of protein which allows isolation of recombinant protein and protein complexes from plant tissues. As examples, we demonstrated in planta interaction between the nanovirus F-box protein Clink and SKP1, a constituent of the ubiquitin-dependent protein turnover pathway. Thus, replicative nanovirus vectors provide a simple and efficient means for in planta characterization of protein-protein interaction.
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- Marie N Aronson
- Institut des Sciences du Végétale, CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Saunders K, Bedford ID, Stanley J. Adaptation from whitefly to leafhopper transmission of an autonomously replicating nanovirus-like DNA component associated with ageratum yellow vein disease. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:907-913. [PMID: 11907341 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-4-907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ageratum yellow vein disease is caused by the whitefly-transmitted monopartite begomovirus Ageratum yellow vein virus and a DNA beta satellite component. Naturally occurring symptomatic plants also contain an autonomously replicating nanovirus-like DNA 1 component that relies on the begomovirus and DNA beta for systemic spread and whitefly transmission but is not required for maintenance of the disease. Here, we show that systemic movement of DNA 1 occurs in Nicotiana benthamiana when co-inoculated with the bipartite begomovirus Tomato golden mosaic virus and the curtovirus Beet curly top virus (BCTV), but not with the mastrevirus Bean yellow dwarf virus. BCTV also mediates the systemic movement of DNA 1 in sugar beet, and the nanovirus-like component is transmitted between plants by the BCTV leafhopper vector Circulifer tenellus. We also describe a second nanovirus-like component, referred to as DNA 2, that has only 47% nucleotide sequence identity with DNA 1. The diversity and adaptation of nanovirus components are discussed.
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- Keith Saunders
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK1
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK1
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- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK1
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- E Sadowy
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Horser CL, Harding RM, Dale JL. Banana bunchy top nanovirus DNA-1 encodes the 'master' replication initiation protein. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:459-464. [PMID: 11161286 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-2-459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Banana bunchy top nanovirus has a multicomponent, circular single-stranded DNA genome comprising at least six integral components, BBTV DNA-1 to -6, which have been consistently associated with bunchy top disease worldwide. At least three other components, BBTV S1, S2 and Y, which have been isolated from Taiwanese BBTV isolates, do not appear to be integral components. We show here that both BBTV DNA-1 and S1, which encode replication initiation (Rep) proteins, were capable of self-replication when bombarded into banana embryogenic cell suspensions. However, only BBTV DNA-1 was capable of directing the replication of two other BBTV genomic components, namely BBTV DNA-3 which encodes the coat protein, and DNA-5 which encodes a retinoblastoma binding-like protein. These results indicate that (i) BBTV DNA-1 is the minimal replicative unit of BBTV and encodes the 'master' viral Rep and (ii) BBTV S1 is possibly a satellite DNA which is unable to replicate integral BBTV components.
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- Cathryn L Horser
- Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, 4001 Queensland, Australia1
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- Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, 4001 Queensland, Australia1
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- Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, 4001 Queensland, Australia1
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Merits A, Fedorkin ON, Guo D, Kalinina NO, Morozov SY. Activities associated with the putative replication initiation protein of coconut foliar decay virus, a tentative member of the genus Nanovirus. J Gen Virol 2000; 81:3099-3106. [PMID: 11086141 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-12-3099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The putative replication initiation protein (Rep) of Coconut foliar decay virus (CFDV) was expressed as a 6x His recombinant protein in E. coli and in recombinant baculovirus. Purified 6x His-Rep protein was demonstrated to possess sequence non-specific RNA- and ssDNA-binding activities as well as magnesium-dependent ATPase/GTPase activity. The yeast two-hybrid system revealed that CFDV Rep could interact with itself. Subcellular distribution of the CFDV Rep was studied by fractionation of insect cells infected with recombinant baculovirus expressing the 6x His-Rep protein and by laser scanning confocal microscopy of Nicotiana benthamiana epidermal cells bombarded with a construct encoding CFDV Rep fused to GFP. It was shown that CFDV Rep associated predominantly with nuclei and membranes of infected/transfected cells. These activities of CFDV-encoded Rep are very similar to those reported for Reps of geminiviruses.
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- Andres Merits
- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, PO Box 56, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland2
- National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Akadeemia tee 23, EE12618 Tallinn, Estonia1
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, PO Box 56, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland2
- Department of Virology and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia3
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, PO Box 56, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland2
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- Department of Virology and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia3
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- Department of Virology and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia3
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Timchenko T, Katul L, Sano Y, de Kouchkovsky F, Vetten HJ, Gronenborn B. The master rep concept in nanovirus replication: identification of missing genome components and potential for natural genetic reassortment. Virology 2000; 274:189-95. [PMID: 10936099 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Faba bean necrotic yellows virus (FBYNV), Milk vetch dwarf virus (MDV), and Subterranean clover stunt virus (SCSV) are nanoviruses that infect leguminous plants. From MDV- and SCSV-infected tissue we identified viral DNAs that encode a replication initiator protein (Rep), essential for replication of the multiple circular single-stranded DNAs of these viruses. These previously undescribed Rep proteins of MDV and SCSV are strikingly similar in sequence and functionally equivalent to the master Rep protein of FBYNV. Moreover, we demonstrated that the master Rep proteins of the three viruses are able to trigger replication of heterologous nanovirus DNAs. Such cross-species replication may reflect a considerable potential for genetic reassortment among nanoviruses in nature and be of significance for their evolution.
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- T Timchenko
- Institut des Sciences Végétales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Saunders K, Bedford ID, Briddon RW, Markham PG, Wong SM, Stanley J. A unique virus complex causes Ageratum yellow vein disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:6890-5. [PMID: 10841581 PMCID: PMC18771 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.12.6890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ageratum conyzoides L., a weed species widely distributed throughout southeast Asia, frequently exhibits striking yellow vein symptoms associated with infection by Ageratum yellow vein virus (AYVV), a member of the Geminiviridae (genus Begomovirus). Most begomoviruses have bipartite genomes (DNAs A and B), but only a DNA A has been identified for AYVV. We demonstrate that yellow vein disease of A. conyzoides results from co-infection by AYVV DNA A (2,741 nt) and a circular DNA that is approximately half its size (1,347 nt) that we designate DNA beta. Apart from the sequence TAATATTAC, common to all geminiviruses and containing the initiation site of rolling circle replication, DNA beta shows negligible sequence homology either to AYVV DNA A or to DNA B associated with bipartite begomoviruses. DNA beta depends on DNA A for replication and is encapsidated by DNA A-encoded coat protein and so has characteristics of a DNA satellite. However, systemic infection of A. conyzoides by DNA A alone is sporadic and asymptomatic, and DNA A accumulation is reduced to 5% or less of its accumulation in the presence of DNA beta. Therefore, DNA A and DNA beta together form a previously unrecognized disease-inducing complex. Our data also demonstrate that the nanovirus-like DNA 1 component associated with infected A. conyzoides plays no essential role in the disease and represents a satellite-like DNA. Furthermore, the satellite DNA previously found associated with tomato leaf curl virus is probably a defective DNA beta homologue.
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- K Saunders
- Department of Virus Research, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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Aronson MN, Meyer AD, Györgyey J, Katul L, Vetten HJ, Gronenborn B, Timchenko T. Clink, a nanovirus-encoded protein, binds both pRB and SKP1. J Virol 2000; 74:2967-72. [PMID: 10708410 PMCID: PMC111794 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.7.2967-2972.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Clink, a 20-kDa protein of faba bean necrotic yellows virus, a single-stranded DNA plant virus, interacts with pRB family members and a SKP1 homologue from Medicago sativa. An LxCxE motif and an F-box of Clink mediate the interactions with the respective proteins. The capacity of Clink to bind pRB correlates with its ability to stimulate viral replication. Interaction of a single protein with the cell cycle regulator pRB and SKP1, a constituent of the ubiquitin-protein turnover pathway, appears to be a novel feature. Hence, Clink may represent a new class of viral cell cycle modulators.
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- M N Aronson
- Institut des Sciences Végétales, CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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