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Almasi R, Miller WA, Ziegler-Graff V. Mild and severe cereal yellow dwarf viruses differ in silencing suppressor efficiency of the P0 protein. Virus Res 2015; 208:199-206. [PMID: 26116275 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2015] [Revised: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Viral pathogenicity has often been correlated to the expression of the viral encoded-RNA silencing suppressor protein (SSP). The silencing suppressor activity of the P0 protein encoded by cereal yellow dwarf virus-RPV (CYDV-RPV) and -RPS (CYDV-RPS), two poleroviruses differing in their symptomatology was investigated. CYDV-RPV displays milder symptoms in oat and wheat whereas CYDV-RPS is responsible for more severe disease. We showed that both P0 proteins (P0(CY-RPV) and P0(CY-RPS)) were able to suppress local RNA silencing induced by either sense or inverted repeat transgenes in an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated expression assay in Nicotiana benthamiana. P0(CY-RPS) displayed slightly higher activity. Systemic spread of the silencing signal was not impaired. Analysis of short-interfering RNA (siRNA) abundance revealed that accumulation of primary siRNA was not affected, but secondary siRNA levels were reduced by both CYDV P0 proteins, suggesting that they act downstream of siRNA production. Correlated with this finding we showed that both P0 proteins partially destabilized ARGONAUTE1. Finally both P0(CY-RPV) and P0(CY-RPS) interacted in yeast cells with ASK2, a component of an E3-ubiquitin ligase, with distinct affinities.
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- Reza Almasi
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, associée à l'Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France; Plant Virology Research Center, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, associée à l'Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France; Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, associée à l'Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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Ahn HK, Kang YW, Lim HM, Hwang I, Pai HS. Physiological Functions of the COPI Complex in Higher Plants. Mol Cells 2015; 38:866-75. [PMID: 26434491 PMCID: PMC4625068 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2015.0115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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COPI vesicles are essential to the retrograde transport of proteins in the early secretory pathway. The COPI coatomer complex consists of seven subunits, termed α-, β-, β'-, γ-, δ-, ε-, and ζ-COP, in yeast and mammals. Plant genomes have homologs of these subunits, but the essentiality of their cellular functions has hampered the functional characterization of the subunit genes in plants. Here we have employed virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) and dexamethasone (DEX)-inducible RNAi of the COPI subunit genes to study the in vivo functions of the COPI coatomer complex in plants. The β'-, γ-, and δ-COP subunits localized to the Golgi as GFP-fusion proteins and interacted with each other in the Golgi. Silencing of β'-, γ-, and δ-COP by VIGS resulted in growth arrest and acute plant death in Nicotiana benthamiana, with the affected leaf cells exhibiting morphological markers of programmed cell death. Depletion of the COPI subunits resulted in disruption of the Golgi structure and accumulation of autolysosome-like structures in earlier stages of gene silencing. In tobacco BY-2 cells, DEX-inducible RNAi of β'-COP caused aberrant cell plate formation during cytokinesis. Collectively, these results suggest that COPI vesicles are essential to plant growth and survival by maintaining the Golgi apparatus and modulating cell plate formation.
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- Hee-Kyung Ahn
- Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749,
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- Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749,
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- Biospectrum Life Science Institute, Seongnam 462-120,
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- Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749,
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- Department of Pharmacology and Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 120-752,
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- Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784,
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- Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749,
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Shen Z, Sun J, Yao J, Wang S, Ding M, Zhang H, Qian Z, Zhao N, Sa G, Zhao R, Shen X, Polle A, Chen S. High rates of virus-induced gene silencing by tobacco rattle virus in Populus. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 35:1016-1029. [PMID: 26209619 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) has been shown to be an effective tool for investigating gene functions in herbaceous plant species, but has rarely been tested in trees. The establishment of a fast and reliable transformation system is especially important for woody plants, many of which are recalcitrant to transformation. In this study, we established a tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-based VIGS system for two Populus species, Populus euphratica and P. × canescens. Here, TRV constructs carrying a 266 bp or a 558 bp fragment of the phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene were Agrobacterium-infiltrated into leaves of the two poplar species. Agrobacterium-mediated delivery of the shorter insert, TRV2-PePDS266, into the host poplars resulted in expected photobleaching in both tree species, but not the longer insert, PePDS558. The efficiency of VIGS was temperature-dependent, increasing by raising the temperature from 18 to 28 °C. The optimized TRV-VIGS system at 28 °C resulted in a high silencing frequency and efficiency up to 65-73 and 83-94%, respectively, in the two tested poplars. Moreover, syringe inoculation of Agrobacterium in 100 mM acetosyringone induced a more efficient silencing in the two poplar species, compared with other agroinfiltration methods, e.g., direct injection, misting and agrodrench. There were plant species-related differences in the response to VIGS because the photobleaching symptoms were more severe in P. × canescens than in P. euphratica. Furthermore, VIGS-treated P. euphratica exhibited a higher recovery rate (50%) after several weeks of the virus infection, compared with TRV-infected P. × canescens plants (20%). Expression stability of reference genes was screened to assess the relative abundance of PePDS mRNA in VIGS-treated P. euphratica and P. × canescens. PeACT7 was stably expressed in P. euphratica and UBQ-L was selected as the most suitable reference gene for P. × canescens using three different statistical approaches, geNorm, NormFinder and BestKeeper. Quantitative real-time PCR showed significant reductions in PDS transcripts (55-64%) in the photobleached leaves of both VIGS-treated poplar species. Our results demonstrate that the TRV-based VIGS provides a practical tool for gene functional analysis in Populus sp., especially in those poplar species which are otherwise recalcitrant to transformation.
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- Zedan Shen
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Life Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province 221116, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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- Forstbotanik und Baumphysiologie, Büsgen-Institut, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- College of Biological Sciences and Technology (Box 162), Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P.R. China
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Hedil M, Sterken MG, de Ronde D, Lohuis D, Kormelink R. Analysis of Tospovirus NSs Proteins in Suppression of Systemic Silencing. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0134517. [PMID: 26275304 PMCID: PMC4537313 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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RNA silencing is a sequence-specific gene regulation mechanism that in plants also acts antiviral. In order to counteract antiviral RNA silencing, viruses have evolved RNA silencing suppressors (RSS). In the case of tospoviruses, the non-structural NSs protein has been identified as the RSS. Although the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) tospovirus NSs protein has been shown to exhibit affinity to long and small dsRNA molecules, its ability to suppress the non-cell autonomous part of RNA silencing has only been studied to a limited extent. Here, the NSs proteins of TSWV, groundnut ringspot virus (GRSV) and tomato yellow ring virus (TYRV), representatives for three distinct tospovirus species, have been studied on their ability and strength to suppress local and systemic silencing. A system has been developed to quantify suppression of GFP silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana 16C lines, to allow a comparison of relative RNA silencing suppressor strength. It is shown that NSs of all three tospoviruses are suppressors of local and systemic silencing. Unexpectedly, suppression of systemic RNA silencing by NSsTYRV was just as strong as those by NSsTSWV and NSsGRSV, even though NSsTYRV was expressed in lower amounts. Using the system established, a set of selected NSsTSWV gene constructs mutated in predicted RNA binding domains, as well as NSs from TSWV isolates 160 and 171 (resistance breakers of the Tsw resistance gene), were analyzed for their ability to suppress systemic GFP silencing. The results indicate another mode of RNA silencing suppression by NSs that acts further downstream the biogenesis of siRNAs and their sequestration. The findings are discussed in light of the affinity of NSs for small and long dsRNA, and recent mutant screen of NSsTSWV to map domains required for RSS activity and triggering of Tsw-governed resistance.
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- Marcio Hedil
- Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Virology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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Vidigal P, Martin-Hernandez AM, Guiu-Aragonés C, Amâncio S, Carvalho L. Selective silencing of 2Cys and type-IIB Peroxiredoxins discloses their roles in cell redox state and stress signaling. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 57:591-601. [PMID: 25319151 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Peroxiredoxins (Prx) catalyse the reduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and, in association with catalases and other peroxidases, may participate in signal transduction by regulating intercellular H2O2 concentration that in turn can control gene transcription and cell signaling. Using virus-induced-gene-silencing (VIGS), 2-Cys Peroxiredoxin (2CysPrx) family and type-II Peroxiredoxin B (PrxIIB) gene were silenced in Nicotiana benthamiana, to study the impact that the loss of function of each Prx would have in the antioxidant system under control (22 °C) and severe heat stress conditions (48 °C). The results showed that both Prxs, although in different organelles, influence the regeneration of ascorbate to a significant extent, but with different purposes. 2CysPrx affects abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis through ascorbate, while PrxIIB does it probably through the xanthophyll cycle. Moreover, 2CysPrx is key in H2O2 scavenging and in consequence in the regulation of ABA signaling downstream of reactive oxygen species and PrxIIB provides an important assistance for H2O2 peroxisome scavenges.
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- Patrícia Vidigal
- Departamento de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Território (DRAT)/Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura (CBAA), Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB) Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Edificio Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB) Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Edificio Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Território (DRAT)/Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura (CBAA), Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Território (DRAT)/Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura (CBAA), Institute of Agronomy, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal
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Hashimoto M, Komatsu K, Iwai R, Keima T, Maejima K, Shiraishi T, Ishikawa K, Yoshida T, Kitazawa Y, Okano Y, Yamaji Y, Namba S. Cell Death Triggered by a Putative Amphipathic Helix of Radish mosaic virus Helicase Protein Is Tightly Correlated With Host Membrane Modification. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2015; 28:675-88. [PMID: 25650831 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-01-15-0004-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Systemic necrosis is one of the most severe symptoms caused by plant RNA viruses. Recently, systemic necrosis has been suggested to have similar features to a defense response referred to as the hypersensitive response (HR), a form of programmed cell death. In virus-infected plant cells, host intracellular membrane structures are changed dramatically for more efficient viral replication. However, little is known about whether this replication-associated membrane modification is the cause of the symptoms. In this study, we identified an amino-terminal amphipathic helix of the helicase encoded by Radish mosaic virus (RaMV) (genus Comovirus) as an elicitor of cell death in RaMV-infected plants. Cell death caused by the amphipathic helix had features similar to HR, such as SGT1-dependence. Mutational analyses and inhibitor assays using cerulenin demonstrated that the amphipathic helix-induced cell death was tightly correlated with dramatic alterations in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane structures. Furthermore, the cell death-inducing activity of the amphipathic helix was conserved in Cowpea mosaic virus (genus Comovirus) and Tobacco ringspot virus (genus Nepovirus), both of which are classified in the family Secoviridae. Together, these results indicate that ER membrane modification associated with viral intracellular replication may be recognized to prime defense responses against plant viruses.
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- Masayoshi Hashimoto
- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 2 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), 3-5-8 Saiwaicho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- 1 Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Cao X, Jin X, Zhang X, Li Y, Wang C, Wang X, Hong J, Wang X, Li D, Zhang Y. Morphogenesis of Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane-Invaginated Vesicles during Beet Black Scorch Virus Infection: Role of Auxiliary Replication Protein and New Implications of Three-Dimensional Architecture. J Virol 2015; 89:6184-95. [PMID: 25833056 PMCID: PMC4474299 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00401-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED All well-characterized positive-strand RNA viruses[(+)RNA viruses] induce the formation of host membrane-bound viral replication complexes (VRCs), yet the underlying mechanism and machinery for VRC formation remain elusive. We report here the biogenesis and topology of the Beet black scorch virus (BBSV) replication complex. Distinct cytopathological changes typical of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) aggregation and vesiculation were observed in BBSV-infected Nicotiana benthamiana cells. Immunogold labeling of the auxiliary replication protein p23 and double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) revealed that the ER-derived membranous spherules provide the site for BBSV replication. Further studies indicated that p23 plays a crucial role in mediating the ER rearrangement. Three-dimensional electron tomographic analysis revealed the formation of multiple ER-originated vesicle packets. Each vesicle packet enclosed a few to hundreds of independent spherules that were invaginations of the ER membranes into the lumen. Strikingly, these vesicle packets were connected to each other via tubules, a rearrangement event that is rare among other virus-induced membrane reorganizations. Fibrillar contents within the spherules were also reconstructed by electron tomography, which showed diverse structures. Our results provide the first, to our knowledge, three-dimensional ultrastructural analysis of membrane-bound VRCs of a plant (+)RNA virus and should help to achieve a better mechanistic understanding of the organization and microenvironment of plant (+)RNA virus replication complexes. IMPORTANCE Assembly of virus replication complexes for all known positive-strand RNA viruses depends on the extensive remodeling of host intracellular membranes. Beet black scorch virus, a necrovirus in the family Tombusviridae, invaginates the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes to form spherules in infected cells. Double-stranded RNAs, the viral replication intermediate, and the viral auxiliary replication protein p23 are all localized within such viral spherules, indicating that these are the sites for generating progeny viral RNAs. Furthermore, the BBSV p23 protein could to some extent reorganize the ER when transiently expressed in N. benthamiana. Electron tomographic analysis resolves the three-dimensional (3D) architecture of such spherules, which are connected to the cytoplasm via a neck-like structure. Strikingly, different numbers of spherules are enclosed in ER-originated vesicle packets that are connected to each other via tubule-like structures. Our results have significant implications for further understanding the mechanisms underlying the replication of positive-strand RNA viruses.
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- Xiuling Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Branch of China National Center for Protein Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Patil BL, Fauquet CM. Light intensity and temperature affect systemic spread of silencing signal in transient agroinfiltration studies. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2015; 16:484-94. [PMID: 25220764 PMCID: PMC6638542 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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RNA silencing is a sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene inactivation mechanism that operates in diverse organisms and that can extend beyond its site of initiation, owing to the movement of the silencing signal, called non-autonomous gene silencing. Previous studies have shown that several factors manifest the movement of the silencing signal, such as the size (21 or 24 nucleotides) of the secondary small interfering RNA (siRNA) produced, the steady-state concentration of siRNAs and their cognate messenger RNA (mRNA) or a change in the sink-source status of plant parts affecting phloem translocation. Our study shows that both light intensity and temperature have a significant impact on the systemic movement of the silencing signal in transient agroinfiltration studies in Nicotiana benthamiana. At higher light intensities (≥ 450 μE/m(2)/s) and higher temperatures (≥ 30 °C), gene silencing was localized to leaf tissue that was infiltrated, without any systemic spread. Interestingly, in these light and temperature conditions (≥ 450 μE/m(2) /s and ≥ 30 °C), the N. benthamiana plants showed recovery from the viral symptoms. However, the reduced systemic silencing and reduced viral symptom severity at higher light intensities were caused by a change in the sink-source status of the plant, ultimately affecting the phloem translocation of small RNAs or the viral genome. In contrast, at lower light intensities (<300 μE/m(2)/s) with a constant temperature of 25 °C, there was strong systemic movement of the silencing signal in the N. benthamiana plants and reduced recovery from virus infections. The accumulation of gene-specific siRNAs was reduced at higher temperature as a result of a reduction in the accumulation of transcript on transient agroinfiltration of RNA interference (RNAi) constructs, mostly because of poor T-DNA transfer activity of Agrobacterium, possibly also accompanied by reduced phloem translocation.
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- Basavaprabhu L Patil
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO, 63132, USA; National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India
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Zhirnov IV, Trifonova EA, Kochetov AV, Shumny VK. Virus-induced silencing as a method for studying gene functions in higher plants. RUSS J GENET+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795415050099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Netsu O, Hiraguri A, Uehara-Ichiki T, Komatsu K, Sasaya T. Functional comparison of RNA silencing suppressor between the p5 protein of rice grassy stunt virus and the p3 protein of rice stripe virus. Virus Res 2015; 203:10-9. [PMID: 25836276 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Rice grassy stunt virus (RGSV) is a member of the genus Tenuivirus, which includes rice stripe virus (RSV), as the type species. A viral suppressor of RNA silencing (VSR) of RGSV has not been identified, whereas the p3 protein of RSV (RSVp3) encoded by the viral-sense (v) strand of RNA3 has been reported to act as a VSR. In this study, we examined the VSR function of the p5 protein of RGSV (RGSVp5), encoded by vRNA5. Expecting it to correspond to the vRNA3 of RSV, we compared the VSR function of RGSVp5 with that of RSVp3. In an Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression assay using a transgenic line of Nicotiana benthamiana that expressed green fluorescent protein and the wild type, RGSVp5 suppressed sense transgene-mediated post-transcriptional gene silencing (S-PTGS), inverted-repeat (IR) transgene-induced PTGS (IR-PTGS), and the systemic spread of GFP silencing, as in the case with RSVp3. By contrast, a gel mobility shift assay revealed that RGSVp5 did not have any distinct binding activity with 21-, 22-, or 24-nucleotide small interfering RNA (siRNA) duplexes, whereas RSVp3 binds to all three sizes of siRNA duplexes. Furthermore, the transiently expressed p5 protein fused with GFP was dispersed mainly in the cytoplasm, whereas the GFP-fused p3 protein of RSV was localized both in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm. Our results suggest that RGSVp5 functions as a VSR but that the suppression mechanism of RNA silencing and the subcellular localization of RGSVp5 differ from those of the analogous VSR, RSVp3, even in the same genus.
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- Osamu Netsu
- National Agricultural Research Center, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan; Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan; Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan; National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan; Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), 3-5-8 Saiwaicho, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8509, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan; Agro-Environment Research Division, NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Koshi, Kumamoto 861-1192, Japan.
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Kung YJ, You BJ, Raja JAJ, Chen KC, Huang CH, Bau HJ, Yang CF, Huang CH, Chang CP, Yeh SD. Nucleotide sequence-homology-independent breakdown of transgenic resistance by more virulent virus strains and a potential solution. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9804. [PMID: 25913508 PMCID: PMC5386206 DOI: 10.1038/srep09804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Controlling plant viruses by genetic engineering, including the globally important Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), mainly involves coat protein (CP) gene mediated resistance via post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS). However, the breakdown of single- or double-virus resistance in CP-gene-transgenic papaya by more virulent PRSV strains has been noted in repeated field trials. Recombination analysis revealed that the gene silencing suppressor HC-Pro or CP of the virulent PRSV strain 5-19 is responsible for overcoming CP-transgenic resistance in a sequence-homology-independent manner. Transient expression assays using agro-infiltration in Nicotiana benthamiana plants indicated that 5-19 HC-Pro exhibits stronger PTGS suppression than the transgene donor strain. To disarm the suppressor from the virulent strain, transgenic papaya lines were generated carrying untranslatable 5-19 HC-Pro, which conferred complete resistance to 5-19 and other geographic PRSV strains. Our study suggested the potential risk of the emergence of more virulent virus strains, spurred by the deployment of CP-gene-transgenic crops, and provides a strategy to combat such strains.
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- Yi-Jung Kung
- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
- Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
- Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C
- Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Saeed M, Krczal G, Wassenegger M. Three gene products of a begomovirus-betasatellite complex restore expression of a transcriptionally silenced green fluorescent protein transgene in Nicotiana benthamiana. Virus Genes 2015; 50:340-4. [PMID: 25537949 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-014-1155-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2014] [Accepted: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Single-stranded DNA geminiviruses replicate via double-stranded DNA intermediates forming mini-chromosomes that are targets for transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) in plants. The ability of the cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus (CLCuKoV)-cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite (CLCuMuB) proteins, replication-associated protein (Rep), transcriptional activator protein (TrAP), C4, V2 and βC1, to suppress TGS was investigated by using the Nicotiana benthamiana line 16-TGS (16-TGS) harbouring a transcriptionally silenced green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene. Inoculation of 16-TGS plants with a recombinant potato virus X vector carrying Rep, TrAP or βC1 resulted in re-expression of GFP. Northern blot analysis confirmed that the observed GFP fluorescence was associated with GFP mRNA accumulation. These results indicated that Rep, TrAP and βC1 proteins of CLCuKoV-CLCuMuB can re-activate the expression of a transcriptionally silenced GFP transgene in N. benthamiana. Although Rep, TrAP, or βC1 proteins have, for other begomoviruses or begomoviruses-betasatellites, been previously shown to have TGS suppressor activity, this is the first report demonstrating that a single begomovirus-betasatellite complex encodes three suppressors of TGS.
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- Muhammad Saeed
- RLP AgroScience GmbH, AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research, Breitenweg 71, 67435, Neustadt, Germany,
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Feng YL, Wang KT, Ma C, Zhao YY, Yin J. Virus-induced gene silencing-based functional verification of six genes associated with vernalization in wheat. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2015; 458:928-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.02.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Weinheimer I, Jiu Y, Rajamäki ML, Matilainen O, Kallijärvi J, Cuellar WJ, Lu R, Saarma M, Holmberg CI, Jäntti J, Valkonen JPT. Suppression of RNAi by dsRNA-degrading RNaseIII enzymes of viruses in animals and plants. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1004711. [PMID: 25747942 PMCID: PMC4352025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2014] [Accepted: 01/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Certain RNA and DNA viruses that infect plants, insects, fish or poikilothermic animals encode Class 1 RNaseIII endoribonuclease-like proteins. dsRNA-specific endoribonuclease activity of the RNaseIII of rock bream iridovirus infecting fish and Sweet potato chlorotic stunt crinivirus (SPCSV) infecting plants has been shown. Suppression of the host antiviral RNA interference (RNAi) pathway has been documented with the RNaseIII of SPCSV and Heliothis virescens ascovirus infecting insects. Suppression of RNAi by the viral RNaseIIIs in non-host organisms of different kingdoms is not known. Here we expressed PPR3, the RNaseIII of Pike-perch iridovirus, in the non-hosts Nicotiana benthamiana (plant) and Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode) and found that it cleaves double-stranded small interfering RNA (ds-siRNA) molecules that are pivotal in the host RNA interference (RNAi) pathway and thereby suppresses RNAi in non-host tissues. In N. benthamiana, PPR3 enhanced accumulation of Tobacco rattle tobravirus RNA1 replicon lacking the 16K RNAi suppressor. Furthermore, PPR3 suppressed single-stranded RNA (ssRNA)--mediated RNAi and rescued replication of Flock House virus RNA1 replicon lacking the B2 RNAi suppressor in C. elegans. Suppression of RNAi was debilitated with the catalytically compromised mutant PPR3-Ala. However, the RNaseIII (CSR3) produced by SPCSV, which cleaves ds-siRNA and counteracts antiviral RNAi in plants, failed to suppress ssRNA-mediated RNAi in C. elegans. In leaves of N. benthamiana, PPR3 suppressed RNAi induced by ssRNA and dsRNA and reversed silencing; CSR3, however, suppressed only RNAi induced by ssRNA and was unable to reverse silencing. Neither PPR3 nor CSR3 suppressed antisense-mediated RNAi in Drosophila melanogaster. These results show that the RNaseIII enzymes of RNA and DNA viruses suppress RNAi, which requires catalytic activities of RNaseIII. In contrast to other viral silencing suppression proteins, the RNaseIII enzymes are homologous in unrelated RNA and DNA viruses and can be detected in viral genomes using gene modeling and protein structure prediction programs.
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- Isabel Weinheimer
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology, and Institute of Biomedicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology, and Institute of Biomedicine, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Jackel JN, Buchmann RC, Singhal U, Bisaro DM. Analysis of geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins reveals a novel AL2 silencing suppressor activity. J Virol 2015. [PMID: 25552721 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02625-2614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Both posttranscriptional and transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS and TGS, respectively) participate in defense against the DNA-containing geminiviruses. As a countermeasure, members of the genus Begomovirus (e.g., Cabbage leaf curl virus) encode an AL2 protein that is both a transcriptional activator and a silencing suppressor. The related L2 protein of Beet curly top virus (genus Curtovirus) lacks transcription activation activity. Previous studies showed that both AL2 and L2 suppress silencing by a mechanism that correlates with adenosine kinase (ADK) inhibition, while AL2 in addition activates transcription of cellular genes that negatively regulate silencing pathways. The goal of this study was to clarify the general means by which these viral proteins inhibit various aspects of silencing. We confirmed that AL2 inhibits systemic silencing spread by a mechanism that requires transcription activation activity. Surprisingly, we also found that reversal of PTGS and TGS by ADK inactivation depended on whether experiments were conducted in vegetative or reproductive Nicotiana benthamiana plants (i.e., before or after the vegetative-to-reproductive transition). While AL2 was able to reverse silencing in both vegetative and reproductive plants, L2 and ADK inhibition were effective only in vegetative plants. This suggests that silencing maintenance mechanisms can change during development or in response to stress. Remarkably, we also observed that AL2 lacking its transcription activation domain could reverse TGS in reproductive plants, revealing a third, previously unsuspected AL2 suppression mechanism that depends on neither ADK inactivation nor transcription activation. IMPORTANCE RNA silencing in plants is a multivalent antiviral defense, and viruses respond by elaborating multiple and sometimes multifunctional proteins that inhibit various aspects of silencing. The studies described here add an additional layer of complexity to this interplay. By examining geminivirus AL2 and L2 suppressor activities, we show that L2 is unable to suppress silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana plants that have undergone the vegetative-to-reproductive transition. As L2 was previously shown to be effective in mature Arabidopsis plants, these results illustrate that silencing mechanisms can change during development or in response to stress in ways that may be species specific. The AL2 and L2 proteins are known to share a suppression mechanism that correlates with the ability of both proteins to inhibit ADK, while AL2 in addition can inhibit silencing by transcriptionally activating cellular genes. Here, we also provide evidence for a third AL2 suppression mechanism that depends on neither transcription activation nor ADK inactivation. In addition to revealing the remarkable versatility of AL2, this work highlights the utility of viral suppressors as probes for the analysis of silencing pathways.
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- Jamie N Jackel
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Jackel JN, Buchmann RC, Singhal U, Bisaro DM. Analysis of geminivirus AL2 and L2 proteins reveals a novel AL2 silencing suppressor activity. J Virol 2015; 89:3176-87. [PMID: 25552721 PMCID: PMC4337558 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02625-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 12/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Both posttranscriptional and transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS and TGS, respectively) participate in defense against the DNA-containing geminiviruses. As a countermeasure, members of the genus Begomovirus (e.g., Cabbage leaf curl virus) encode an AL2 protein that is both a transcriptional activator and a silencing suppressor. The related L2 protein of Beet curly top virus (genus Curtovirus) lacks transcription activation activity. Previous studies showed that both AL2 and L2 suppress silencing by a mechanism that correlates with adenosine kinase (ADK) inhibition, while AL2 in addition activates transcription of cellular genes that negatively regulate silencing pathways. The goal of this study was to clarify the general means by which these viral proteins inhibit various aspects of silencing. We confirmed that AL2 inhibits systemic silencing spread by a mechanism that requires transcription activation activity. Surprisingly, we also found that reversal of PTGS and TGS by ADK inactivation depended on whether experiments were conducted in vegetative or reproductive Nicotiana benthamiana plants (i.e., before or after the vegetative-to-reproductive transition). While AL2 was able to reverse silencing in both vegetative and reproductive plants, L2 and ADK inhibition were effective only in vegetative plants. This suggests that silencing maintenance mechanisms can change during development or in response to stress. Remarkably, we also observed that AL2 lacking its transcription activation domain could reverse TGS in reproductive plants, revealing a third, previously unsuspected AL2 suppression mechanism that depends on neither ADK inactivation nor transcription activation. IMPORTANCE RNA silencing in plants is a multivalent antiviral defense, and viruses respond by elaborating multiple and sometimes multifunctional proteins that inhibit various aspects of silencing. The studies described here add an additional layer of complexity to this interplay. By examining geminivirus AL2 and L2 suppressor activities, we show that L2 is unable to suppress silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana plants that have undergone the vegetative-to-reproductive transition. As L2 was previously shown to be effective in mature Arabidopsis plants, these results illustrate that silencing mechanisms can change during development or in response to stress in ways that may be species specific. The AL2 and L2 proteins are known to share a suppression mechanism that correlates with the ability of both proteins to inhibit ADK, while AL2 in addition can inhibit silencing by transcriptionally activating cellular genes. Here, we also provide evidence for a third AL2 suppression mechanism that depends on neither transcription activation nor ADK inactivation. In addition to revealing the remarkable versatility of AL2, this work highlights the utility of viral suppressors as probes for the analysis of silencing pathways.
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- Jamie N Jackel
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Center for Applied Plant Sciences, Center for RNA Biology, and Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Shivaprasad PV, Hohn T, Akbergenov R. Biochemical requirements for two Dicer-like activities from wheat germ. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0116736. [PMID: 25615604 PMCID: PMC4304710 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Accepted: 12/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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RNA silencing pathways were first discovered in plants. Through genetic analysis, it has been established that the key silencing components called Dicer-like (DCL) genes have been shown to cooperatively process RNA substrates of multiple origin into distinct 21, 22 and 24 nt small RNAs. However, only few detailed biochemical analysis of the corresponding complexes has been carried out in plants, mainly due to the large unstable complexes that are hard to obtain or reconstitute in heterologous systems. Reconstitution of activity needs thorough understanding of all protein partners in the complex, something that is still an ongoing process in plant systems. Here, we use biochemical analysis to uncover properties of two previously identified native dicer-like activities from wheat germ. We find that standard wheat germ extract contains Dicer-like enzymes that convert double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into two classes of small interfering RNAs of 21 and 24 nt in size. The 21 nt dicing activity, likely an siRNA producing complex known as DCL4, is 950 kDa-1.2 mDa in size and is highly unstable during purification processes but has a rather vast range for activity. On the contrary, the 24 nt dicing complex, likely the DCL3 activity, is relatively stable and comparatively smaller in size, but has stricter conditions for effective processing of dsRNA substrates. While both activities could process completely complementary dsRNA albeit with varying abilities, we show that DCL3-like 24 nt producing activity is equally good in processing incompletely complementary RNAs.
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- * E-mail: (PVS); (RA)
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Jeyabharathy C, Shakila H, Usha R. Development of a VIGS vector based on the β-satellite DNA associated with bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus. Virus Res 2015; 195:73-8. [PMID: 25169741 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 08/17/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bhendi yellow vein mosaic virus (BYMV) is a monopartite begomovirus with an associated β-satellite. βC1 ORF encoded by the β-satellite is the symptom determinant and a strong suppressor of post transcriptional gene silencing. To create a virus induced gene silencing vector based upon the β-satellite associated with BYVMV the βC1 ORF was replaced with multiple cloning sites. GFP transgene and plant endogenous genes Su, PDS, PCNA and AGO1 were cloned into β-satellite based VIGS vector. GFP expression was silenced in the GFP expressing transgenic 16c Nicotiana benthamiana plants infiltrated with VIGS vector carrying GFP gene inside. N. benthamiana plants infiltrated with the VIGS vector harboring the endogenous genes Su, PDS, PCNA and AGO1 produced the phenotypic symptoms yellowing of the veins, photobleaching of the veins, stunting of the plant and upward leaf curling, respectively. Real time PCR analyses revealed a reduction in the levels of the corresponding transgene or endogenous target mRNA. The β-satellite based VIGS vector was able to silence the target genes effectively. Hence, BYVMV β-satellite based VIGS vector can be used in functional genomics studies.
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- C Jeyabharathy
- School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Madurai 625021, Tamil Nadu, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Madurai 625021, Tamil Nadu, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Madurai 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Dalakouras A, Dadami E, Bassler A, Zwiebel M, Krczal G, Wassenegger M. Replicating Potato spindle tuber viroid mediates de novo methylation of an intronic viroid sequence but no cleavage of the corresponding pre-mRNA. RNA Biol 2015; 12:268-75. [PMID: 25826660 PMCID: PMC4615544 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2015.1017216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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In plants, Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) replication triggers post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) of homologous RNA and DNA sequences, respectively. PTGS predominantly occurs in the cytoplasm, but nuclear PTGS has been also reported. In this study, we investigated whether the nuclear replicating PSTVd is able to trigger nuclear PTGS. Transgenic tobacco plants carrying cytoplasmic and nuclear PTGS sensor constructs were PSTVd-infected resulting in the generation of abundant PSTVd-derived small interfering RNAs (vd-siRNAs). Northern blot analysis revealed that, in contrast to the cytoplasmic sensor, the nuclear sensor transcript was not targeted for RNA degradation. Bisulfite sequencing analysis showed that the nuclear PTGS sensor transgene was efficiently targeted for RdDM. Our data suggest that PSTVd fails to trigger nuclear PTGS, and that RdDM and nuclear PTGS are not necessarily coupled.
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
- Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg; University of Heidelberg; Heidelberg, Germany
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Understanding molecular mechanisms of transcriptional and posttranscriptional gene silencing pathways in plants over the past decades has led to development of tools and methods for silencing a target gene in various plant species. In this review chapter, both the recent understanding of molecular basis of gene silencing pathways and advances in various widely used gene silencing methods are compiled. We also discuss the salient features of the different methods like RNA interference (RNAi) and virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) and highlight their advantages and disadvantages. Gene silencing technology is constantly progressing as reflected by rapidly emerging new methods. A succinct discussion on the recently developed methods like microRNA-mediated virus-induced gene silencing (MIR-VIGS) and microRNA-induced gene silencing (MIGS) is also provided. One major bottleneck in gene silencing approaches has been the associated off-target silencing. The other hurdle has been the lack of a universal approach that can be applied to all plants. For example, we face hurdles like incompatibility of VIGS vectors with the host and inability to use MIGS for plant species which are not easily transformable. However, the overwhelming research in this direction reflects the scope for overcoming the short comings of gene silencing technology.
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- Prachi Pandey
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, #10531, New Delhi, 110067, India
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RNAi is the most important reverse genetics tool to trigger transgenic gene silencing, which is now applied widely to investigate gene function and also practically applied to enhance resistance to biotic and abiotic stress. Recently, the most effective way to induce transgenic gene silencing is to introduce inverted repeat (IR) double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) or artificial microRNA (amiRNA) instead of a transgenic sense or antisense strand of genes. The stable transgenic plants can be acquired through Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of binary vectors containing an RNAi hairpin construct or amiRNA precursor backbone sequence. Here we primarily describe these two methods' vector construction, plant transformation, and transgenic line verification.
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- Yun Jin
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, China
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Wright KM, MacKenzie KM. Probing protein targeting to plasmodesmata using fluorescence recovery after photo-bleaching. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1217:259-74. [PMID: 25287209 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1523-1_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Fluorescence recovery after photo-bleaching (FRAP) involves the irreversible bleaching of a fluorescent protein within a specific area of the cell using a high-intensity laser. The recovery of fluorescence represents the movement of new protein into this area and can therefore be used to investigate factors involved in this movement. Here we describe a FRAP method to investigate the effect of a range of pharmacological agents on the targeting of Tobacco mosaic virus movement protein to plasmodesmata.
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- Kathryn M Wright
- Cell and Molecular Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK,
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Peña E, Heinlein M, Sambade A. In vivo RNA labeling using MS2. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1217:329-41. [PMID: 25287213 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1523-1_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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The trafficking and asymmetric distribution of cytoplasmic RNA is a fundamental process during development and signaling across phyla. Plants support the intercellular trafficking of RNA molecules such as gene transcripts, small RNAs, and viral RNA genomes by targeting these RNA molecules to plasmodesmata (PD). Intercellular transport of RNA molecules through PD has fundamental implications in the cell-to-cell and systemic signaling during plant development and in the systemic spread of viral disease. Recent advances in time-lapse microscopy allow researchers to approach dynamic biological processes at the molecular level in living cells and tissues. These advances include the ability to label RNA molecules in vivo and thus to monitor their distribution and trafficking. In a broadly used RNA labeling approach, the MS2 method, the RNA of interest is tagged with a specific stem-loop (SL) RNA sequence derived from the origin of assembly region of the bacteriophage MS2 genome that binds to the bacteriophage coat protein (CP) and which, if fused to a fluorescent protein, allows the visualization of the tagged RNA by fluorescence microscopy. Here we describe a protocol for the in vivo visualization of transiently expressed SL-tagged RNA and discuss key aspects to study RNA localization and trafficking to and through plasmodesmata in Nicotiana benthamiana plants.
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- Eduardo Peña
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084, Strasbourg, France
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Rossi M, Vallino M, Abbà S, Ciuffo M, Balestrini R, Genre A, Turina M. The Importance of the KR-Rich Region of the Coat Protein of Ourmia melon virus for Host Specificity, Tissue Tropism, and Interference With Antiviral Defense. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2015; 28:30-41. [PMID: 25494356 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-07-14-0197-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The N-terminal region of the Ourmia melon virus (OuMV) coat protein (CP) contains a short lysine/arginine-rich (KR) region. By alanine scanning mutagenesis, we showed that the KR region influences pathogenicity and virulence of OuMV without altering viral particle assembly. A mutant, called OuMV6710, with three basic residue substitutions in the KR region, was impaired in the ability to maintain the initial systemic infection in Nicotiana benthamiana and to infect both cucumber and melon plants systemically. The integrity of this protein region was also crucial for encapsidation of viral genomic RNA; in fact, certain mutations within the KR region partially compromised the RNA encapsidation efficiency of the CP. In Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0, OuMV6710 was impaired in particle accumulation; however, this phenotype was abolished in dcl2/dcl4 and dcl2/dcl3/dcl4 Arabidopsis mutants defective for antiviral silencing. Moreover, in contrast to CPwt, in situ immunolocalization experiments indicated that CP6710 accumulates efficiently in the spongy mesophyll tissue of infected N. benthamiana and A. thaliana leaves but only occasionally infects palisade tissues. These results provided strong evidence of a crucial role for OuMV CP during viral infection and highlighted the relevance of the KR region in determining tissue tropism, host range, pathogenicity, and RNA affinity, which may be all correlated with a possible CP silencing-suppression activity.
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del Toro F, Fernández FT, Tilsner J, Wright KM, Tenllado F, Chung BN, Praveen S, Canto T. Potato virus Y HCPro localization at distinct, dynamically related and environment-influenced structures in the cell cytoplasm. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2014; 27:1331-43. [PMID: 25387134 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-05-14-0155-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Potyvirus HCPro is a multifunctional protein that, among other functions, interferes with antiviral defenses in plants and mediates viral transmission by aphid vectors. We have visualized in vivo the subcellular distribution and dynamics of HCPro from Potato virus Y and its homodimers, using green, yellow, and red fluorescent protein tags or their split parts, while assessing their biological activities. Confocal microscopy revealed a pattern of even distribution of fluorescence throughout the cytoplasm, common to all these modified HCPros, when transiently expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana epidermal cells in virus-free systems. However, in some cells, distinct additional patterns, specific to some constructs and influenced by environmental conditions, were observed: i) a small number of large, amorphous cytoplasm inclusions that contained α-tubulin; ii) a pattern of numerous small, similarly sized, dot-like inclusions distributing regularly throughout the cytoplasm and associated or anchored to the cortical endoplasmic reticulum and the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton; and iii) a pattern that smoothly coated the MT. Furthermore, mixed and intermediate forms from the last two patterns were observed, suggesting dynamic transports between them. HCPro did not colocalize with actin filaments or the Golgi apparatus. Despite its association with MT, this network integrity was required neither for HCPro suppression of silencing in agropatch assays nor for its mediation of virus transmission by aphids.
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Jelly NS, Valat L, Walter B, Maillot P. Transient expression assays in grapevine: a step towards genetic improvement. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2014; 12:1231-45. [PMID: 25431200 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Revised: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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In the past few years, the usefulness of transient expression assays has continuously increased for the characterization of unknown gene function and metabolic pathways. In grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), one of the most economically important fruit crops in the world, recent systematic sequencing projects produced many gene data sets that require detailed analysis. Due to their rapid nature, transient expression assays are well suited for large-scale genetic studies. Although genes and metabolic pathways of any species can be analysed by transient expression in model plants, a need for homologous systems has emerged to avoid the misinterpretation of results due to a foreign genetic background. Over the last 10 years, various protocols have thus been developed to apply this powerful technology to grapevine. Using cell suspension cultures, somatic embryos, leaves or whole plantlets, transient expression assays enabled the study of the function, regulation and subcellular localization of genes involved in specific metabolic pathways such as the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoids. Disease resistance genes that could be used for marker-assisted selection in conventional breeding or for stable transformation of elite cultivars have also been characterized. Additionally, transient expression assays have proved useful for shaping new tools for grapevine genetic improvement: synthetic promoters, silencing constructs, minimal linear cassettes or viral vectors. This review provides an update on the different tools (DNA constructs, reporter genes, vectors) and methods (Agrobacterium-mediated and direct gene transfer methods) available for transient gene expression in grapevine. The most representative results published thus far are then described.
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- Noémie S Jelly
- Laboratoire Vigne, Biotechnologies & Environnement-EA 3991, Université de Haute Alsace, Colmar Cedex, France
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Koh KW, Lu HC, Chan MT. Virus resistance in orchids. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 228:26-38. [PMID: 25438783 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/17/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Orchid plants, Phalaenopsis and Dendrobium in particular, are commercially valuable ornamental plants sold worldwide. Unfortunately, orchid plants are highly susceptible to viral infection by Cymbidium mosaic virus (CymMV) and Odotoglossum ringspot virus (ORSV), posing a major threat and serious economic loss to the orchid industry worldwide. A major challenge is to generate an effective method to overcome plant viral infection. With the development of optimized orchid transformation biotechnological techniques and the establishment of concepts of pathogen-derived resistance (PDR), the generation of plants resistant to viral infection has been achieved. The PDR concept involves introducing genes that is(are) derived from the virus into the host plant to induce RNA- or protein-mediated resistance. We here review the fundamental mechanism of the PDR concept, and illustrate its application in protecting against viral infection of orchid plants.
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- Kah Wee Koh
- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Biotechnology Center in Southern Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan; Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Rossez Y, Holmes A, Lodberg-Pedersen H, Birse L, Marshall J, Willats WGT, Toth IK, Holden NJ. Escherichia coli common pilus (ECP) targets arabinosyl residues in plant cell walls to mediate adhesion to fresh produce plants. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:34349-65. [PMID: 25320086 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.587717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Outbreaks of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli are often associated with fresh produce. However, the molecular basis to adherence is unknown beyond ionic lipid-flagellum interactions in plant cell membranes. We demonstrate that arabinans present in different constituents of plant cell walls are targeted for adherence by E. coli common pilus (ECP; or meningitis-associated and temperature-regulated (Mat) fimbriae) for E. coli serotypes O157:H7 and O18:K1:H7. l-Arabinose is a common constituent of plant cell wall that is rarely found in other organisms, whereas ECP is widespread in E. coli and other environmental enteric species. ECP bound to oligosaccharides of at least arabinotriose or longer in a glycan array, plant cell wall pectic polysaccharides, and plant glycoproteins. Recognition overlapped with the antibody LM13, which binds arabinanase-sensitive pectic epitopes, and showed a preferential affinity for (1→5)-α-linked l-arabinosyl residues and longer chains of arabinan as demonstrated with the use of arabinan-degrading enzymes. Functional adherence in planta was mediated by the adhesin EcpD in combination with the structural subunit, EcpA, and expression was demonstrated with an ecpR-GFP fusion and ECP antibodies. Spinach was found to be enriched for ECP/LM13 targets compared with lettuce. Specific recognition of arabinosyl residues may help explain the persistence of E. coli in the wider environment and association of verotoxigenic E. coli with some fresh produce plants by exploitation of a glycan found only in plant, not animal, cells.
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- Yannick Rossez
- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg Copenhagen, Denmark
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- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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- Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Copenhagen, 1871 Frederiksberg Copenhagen, Denmark
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- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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- From the Cellular and Molecular Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom and
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Zhang W, Kollwig G, Stecyk E, Apelt F, Dirks R, Kragler F. Graft-transmissible movement of inverted-repeat-induced siRNA signals into flowers. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 80:106-21. [PMID: 25039964 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Revised: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In plants, small interfering RNAs (siRNA) and microRNAs move to distant tissues where they control numerous developmental and physiological processes such as morphogenesis and stress responses. Grafting techniques and transient expression systems have been employed to show that sequence-specific siRNAs with a size of 21-24 nucleotides traffic to distant organs. We used inverted-repeat constructs producing siRNA targeting the meiosis factor DISRUPTED MEIOTIC cDNA 1 (DMC1) and GFP to test whether silencing signals move into meiotically active tissues. In grafted Nicotiana tabacum, a transgenic DMC1 siRNA signal made in source tissues preferably entered the anthers formed in the first flowers. Here, the DMC1 siRNA interfered with meiotic progression and, consequently, the flowers were at least partially sterile. In agro-infiltrated N. benthamiana plants, a GFP siRNA signal produced in leaves was allocated and active in most flower tissues including anthers. In hypocotyl-grafted Arabidopsis thaliana plants, the DMC1 silencing signal consistently appeared in leaves, petioles, and stem, and only a small number of plants displayed DMC1 siRNA signals in flowers. In all three tested plant species the systemic silencing signal penetrated male sporogenic tissues suggesting that plants harbour an endogenous long-distance small RNA transport pathway facilitating siRNA signalling into meiotically active cells.
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- Wenna Zhang
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, Golm, Germany
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Amari K, Di Donato M, Dolja VV, Heinlein M. Myosins VIII and XI play distinct roles in reproduction and transport of tobacco mosaic virus. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1004448. [PMID: 25329993 PMCID: PMC4199776 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Viruses are obligatory parasites that depend on host cellular factors for their replication as well as for their local and systemic movement to establish infection. Although myosin motors are thought to contribute to plant virus infection, their exact roles in the specific infection steps have not been addressed. Here we investigated the replication, cell-to-cell and systemic spread of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) using dominant negative inhibition of myosin activity. We found that interference with the functions of three class VIII myosins and two class XI myosins significantly reduced the local and long-distance transport of the virus. We further determined that the inactivation of myosins XI-2 and XI-K affected the structure and dynamic behavior of the ER leading to aggregation of the viral movement protein (MP) and to a delay in the MP accumulation in plasmodesmata (PD). The inactivation of myosin XI-2 but not of myosin XI-K affected the localization pattern of the 126k replicase subunit and the level of TMV accumulation. The inhibition of myosins VIII-1, VIII-2 and VIII-B abolished MP localization to PD and caused its retention at the plasma membrane. These results suggest that class XI myosins contribute to the viral propagation and intracellular trafficking, whereas myosins VIII are specifically required for the MP targeting to and virus movement through the PD. Thus, TMV appears to recruit distinct myosins for different steps in the cell-to-cell spread of the infection.
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- Khalid Amari
- Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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- Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Shen Y, Zhao X, Yao M, Li C, Miriam K, Zhang X, Tao X. A versatile complementation assay for cell-to-cell and long distance movements by cucumber mosaic virus based agro-infiltration. Virus Res 2014; 190:25-33. [PMID: 25014544 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2014] [Revised: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Microinjection, bombardment or tobamovirus and potexvirus based assay has been developed to identify the putative movement protein (MP) or to characterize plasmodesma-mediated macromolecular transport. In this study, we developed a versatile complementation assay for the cell-to-cell and long distance movements of macromolecules by agro-infiltration based on the infectious clones of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV). The movement-deficient CMV reporter was constructed by replacing the MP on RNA 3 with ER targeted GFP. The ectopic expression of CMV MP was able to efficiently move the RNA3-MP::erGFP reporter from the original cell to neighboring cells, whereas CMV MP-M5 mutant was unable to initiate the movement. Importantly, the presence of CMV RNA1 and RNA2 can dramatically amplify the movement signals once the RNA3-MP::erGFP reporter moves out of the original cell. The appropriate observation time for this movement complementation assay was at 48-72 hours post infiltration (hpi), whereas the optimal incubation temperature was between 25 and 28 °C. The ectopic co-expression of MPs from other virus genera, NSm from tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (TSWV) or NSvc4 from rice stripe tenuivirus (RSV), could also facilitate the movement of the RNA3::erGFP reporter from the original cell into other cells. The chimeric mutant virus created by substituting the MP of CMV RNA3 with NSm from TSWV or NSvc4 from RSV move systemically in Nicotiana benthamiana plants by agro-infiltration. This agro-infiltration complementation assay is simple, efficient and reliable. Our approach provides an alternative and powerful tool with great potentials in identifying putative movement protein and characterizing macromolecular trafficking.
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- Yan Shen
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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Kung YJ, Lin PC, Yeh SD, Hong SF, Chua NH, Liu LY, Lin CP, Huang YH, Wu HW, Chen CC, Lin SS. Genetic analyses of the FRNK motif function of Turnip mosaic virus uncover multiple and potentially interactive pathways of cross-protection. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2014; 27:944-55. [PMID: 24804808 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-04-14-0116-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Cross-protection triggered by a mild strain of virus acts as a prophylaxis to prevent subsequent infections by related viruses in plants; however, the underling mechanisms are not fully understood. Through mutagenesis, we isolated a mutant strain of Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), named Tu-GK, that contains an Arg182Lys substitution in helper component-proteinase (HC-Pro(K)) that confers complete cross-protection against infection by a severe strain of TuMV in Nicotiana benthamiana, Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0, and the Arabidopsis dcl2-4/dcl4-1 double mutant defective in DICER-like ribonuclease (DCL)2/DCL4-mediated silencing. Our analyses showed that HC-Pro(K) loses the ability to interfere with microRNA pathways, although it retains a partial capability for RNA silencing suppression triggered by DCL. We further showed that Tu-GK infection triggers strong salicylic acid (SA)-dependent and SA-independent innate immunity responses. Our data suggest that DCL2/4-dependent and -independent RNA silencing pathways are involved, and may crosstalk with basal innate immunity pathways, in host defense and in cross-protection.
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus resistance by Ty-1 involves increased cytosine methylation of viral genomes and is compromised by cucumber mosaic virus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:12942-7. [PMID: 25136118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400894111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and related begomoviruses are a major threat to tomato production worldwide and, to protect against these viruses, resistance genes from different wild tomato species are introgressed. Recently, the Ty-1 resistance gene was identified, shown to code for an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and to be allelic with Ty-3. Here we show that upon TYLCV challenging of resistant lines carrying Ty-1 or Ty-3, low virus titers were detected concomitant with the production of relatively high levels of siRNAs whereas, in contrast, susceptible tomato Moneymaker (MM) revealed higher virus titers but lower amounts of siRNAs. Comparative analysis of the spatial genomic siRNA distribution showed a consistent and subtle enrichment for siRNAs derived from the V1 and C3 genes in Ty-1 and Ty-3. In plants containing Ty-2 resistance the virus was hardly detectable, but the siRNA profile resembled the one observed in TYLCV-challenged susceptible tomato (MM). Furthermore, a relative hypermethylation of the TYLCV V1 promoter region was observed in genomic DNA collected from Ty-1 compared with that from (MM). The resistance conferred by Ty-1 was also effective against the bipartite tomato severe rugose begomovirus, where a similar genome hypermethylation of the V1 promoter region was discerned. However, a mixed infection of TYLCV with cucumber mosaic virus compromised the resistance. The results indicate that Ty-1 confers resistance to geminiviruses by increasing cytosine methylation of viral genomes, suggestive of enhanced transcriptional gene silencing. The mechanism of resistance and its durability toward geminiviruses under natural field conditions is discussed.
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Zhao M, San León D, Delgadillo MO, García JA, Simón-Mateo C. Virus-induced gene silencing in transgenic plants: transgene silencing and reactivation associate with two patterns of transgene body methylation. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 79:440-452. [PMID: 24916614 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We used bisulfite sequencing to study the methylation of a viral transgene whose expression was silenced upon plum pox virus infection of the transgenic plant and its subsequent recovery as a consequence of so-called virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). VIGS was associated with a general increase in the accumulation of small RNAs corresponding to the coding region of the viral transgene. After VIGS, the transgene promoter was not methylated and the coding region showed uneven methylation, with the 5' end being mostly unmethylated in the recovered tissue or mainly methylated at CG sites in regenerated silenced plants. The methylation increased towards the 3' end, which showed dense methylation in all three contexts (CG, CHG and CHH). This methylation pattern and the corresponding silenced status were maintained after plant regeneration from recovered silenced tissue and did not spread into the promoter region, but were not inherited in the sexual offspring. Instead, a new pattern of methylation was observed in the progeny plants consisting of disappearance of the CHH methylation, similar CHG methylation at the 3' end, and an overall increase in CG methylation in the 5' end. The latter epigenetic state was inherited over several generations and did not correlate with transgene silencing and hence virus resistance. These results suggest that the widespread CG methylation pattern found in body gene bodies located in euchromatic regions of plant genomes may reflect an older silencing event, and most likely these genes are no longer silenced.
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- Mingmin Zhao
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas or (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Dadami E, Dalakouras A, Zwiebel M, Krczal G, Wassenegger M. An endogene-resembling transgene is resistant to DNA methylation and systemic silencing. RNA Biol 2014; 11:934-41. [PMID: 25180820 PMCID: PMC4179966 DOI: 10.4161/rna.29623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2014] [Revised: 06/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In plants, endogenes are less prone to RNA silencing than transgenes. While both can be efficiently targeted by small RNAs for post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), generally only transgene PTGS is accompanied by transitivity, RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) and systemic silencing. In order to investigate whether a transgene could mimick an endogene and thus be less susceptible to RNA silencing, we generated an intron-containing, endogene-resembling GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP) transgene (GFP(endo)). Upon agroinfiltration of a hairpin GFP (hpF) construct, transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants harboring GFP(endo) (Nb-GFP(endo)) were susceptible to local PTGS. Yet, in the local area, PTGS was not accompanied by RdDM of the GFP(endo) coding region. Importantly, hpF-agroinfiltrated Nb-GFP(endo) plants were resistant to systemic silencing. For reasons of comparison, transgenic N. benthamiana plants (Nb-GFP(cDNA)) carrying a GFP cDNA transgene (GFP(cDNA)) were included in the analysis. HpF-agroinfiltrated Nb-GFP(cDNA) plants exhibited local PTGS and RdDM. In addition, systemic silencing was established in Nb-GFP(cDNA) plants. In agreement with previous reports using grafted scions, in systemically silenced tissue, siRNAs mapping to the 3' of GFP were predominantly detectable by Northern blot analysis. Yet, in contrast to other reports, in systemically silenced leaves, PTGS was also accompanied by dense RdDM comprising the entire GFP(cDNA) coding region. Overall, our analysis indicated that cDNA transgenes are prone to systemic PTGS and RdDM, while endogene-resembling ones are resistant to RNA silencing.
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- Elena Dadami
- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH; AlPlanta-Institute for Plant Research; Neustadt, Germany
- Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg; University of Heidelberg; Heidelberg, Germany
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Senthil-Kumar M, Mysore KS. Tobacco rattle virus-based virus-induced gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana. Nat Protoc 2014; 9:1549-62. [PMID: 24901739 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is widely used in various plant species to downregulate the expression of a target plant gene. TRV is a bipartite, positive-strand RNA virus with the TRV1 and TRV2 genomes. To induce post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), the TRV2 genome is genetically modified to carry a fragment of the target gene and delivered into the plant (along with the TRV1 genome) by agroinoculation. TRV1- and TRV2-carrying Agrobacterium strains are then co-inoculated into 3-week-old plant leaves by one of three methods: a needleless syringe, the agrodrench method or by pricking with a toothpick. Target gene silencing occurs in the newly developed noninoculated leaves within 2-3 weeks of TRV inoculation. The TRV-VIGS protocol described here takes only 4 weeks to implement, and it is faster and easier to perform than other gene silencing techniques that are currently available. Although we use Nicotiana benthamiana as an example, the protocol is adaptable to other plant species.
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- Muthappa Senthil-Kumar
- 1] Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA. [2] National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India
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- Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
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Zhuo T, Li YY, Xiang HY, Wu ZY, Wang XB, Wang Y, Zhang YL, Li DW, Yu JL, Han CG. Amino acid sequence motifs essential for P0-mediated suppression of RNA silencing in an isolate of potato leafroll virus from Inner Mongolia. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2014; 27:515-27. [PMID: 24450775 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-08-13-0231-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Polerovirus P0 suppressors of host gene silencing contain a consensus F-box-like motif with Leu/Pro (L/P) requirements for suppressor activity. The Inner Mongolian Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) P0 protein (P0(PL-IM)) has an unusual F-box-like motif that contains a Trp/Gly (W/G) sequence and an additional GW/WG-like motif (G139/W140/G141) that is lacking in other P0 proteins. We used Agrobacterium infiltration-mediated RNA silencing assays to establish that P0(PL-IM) has a strong suppressor activity. Mutagenesis experiments demonstrated that the P0(PL-IM) F-box-like motif encompasses amino acids 76-LPRHLHYECLEWGLLCG THP-95, and that the suppressor activity is abolished by L76A, W87A, or G88A substitution. The suppressor activity is also weakened substantially by mutations within the G139/W140/G141 region and is eliminated by a mutation (F220R) in a C-terminal conserved sequence of P0(PL-IM). As has been observed with other P0 proteins, P0(PL-IM) suppression is correlated with reduced accumulation of the host AGO1-silencing complex protein. However, P0(PL-IM) fails to bind SKP1, which functions in a proteasome pathway that may be involved in AGO1 degradation. These results suggest that P0(PL-IM) may suppress RNA silencing by using an alternative pathway to target AGO1 for degradation. Our results help improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in PLRV infection.
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Zhai Y, Bag S, Mitter N, Turina M, Pappu HR. Mutational analysis of two highly conserved motifs in the silencing suppressor encoded by tomato spotted wilt virus (genus Tospovirus, family Bunyaviridae). Arch Virol 2014; 159:1499-504. [PMID: 24363189 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-013-1928-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2013] [Accepted: 11/14/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Tospoviruses cause serious economic losses to a wide range of field and horticultural crops on a global scale. The NSs gene encoded by tospoviruses acts as a suppressor of host plant defense. We identified amino acid motifs that are conserved in all of the NSs proteins of tospoviruses for which the sequence is known. Using tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) as a model, the role of these motifs in suppressor activity of NSs was investigated. Using site-directed point mutations in two conserved motifs, glycine, lysine and valine/threonine (GKV/T) at positions 181-183 and tyrosine and leucine (YL) at positions 412-413, and an assay to measure the reversal of gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana line 16c, we show that substitutions (K182 to A, and L413 to A) in these motifs abolished suppressor activity of the NSs protein, indicating that these two motifs are essential for the RNAi suppressor function of tospoviruses.
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- Ying Zhai
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, PO Box 646430, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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Minato N, Komatsu K, Okano Y, Maejima K, Ozeki J, Senshu H, Takahashi S, Yamaji Y, Namba S. Efficient foreign gene expression in planta using a plantago asiatica mosaic virus-based vector achieved by the strong RNA-silencing suppressor activity of TGBp1. Arch Virol 2014; 159:885-96. [PMID: 24154949 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-013-1860-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Plant virus expression vectors provide a powerful tool for basic research as well as for practical applications. Here, we report the construction of an expression vector based on plantago asiatica mosaic virus (PlAMV), a member of the genus Potexvirus. Modification of a vector to enhance the expression of a foreign gene, combined with the use of the foot-and-mouth disease virus 2A peptide, allowed efficient expression of the foreign gene in two model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana benthamiana. Comparison with the widely used potato virus X (PVX) vector demonstrated that the PlAMV vector retains an inserted foreign gene for a longer period than PVX. Moreover, our results showed that the GFP expression construct PlAMV-GFP exhibits stronger RNA silencing suppression activity than PVX-GFP, which is likely to contribute to the stability of the PlAMV vector.
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- Nami Minato
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan
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Liou MR, Huang YW, Hu CC, Lin NS, Hsu YH. A dual gene-silencing vector system for monocot and dicot plants. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2014; 12:330-43. [PMID: 24283212 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2013] [Revised: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Plant virus-based gene-silencing vectors have been extensively and successfully used to elucidate functional genomics in plants. However, only limited virus-induced gene-silencing (VIGS) vectors can be used in both monocot and dicot plants. Here, we established a dual gene-silencing vector system based on Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV) and its satellite RNA (satBaMV). Both BaMV and satBaMV vectors could effectively silence endogenous genes in Nicotiana benthamiana and Brachypodium distachyon. The satBaMV vector could also silence the green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene in GFP transgenic N. benthamiana. GFP transgenic plants co-agro-inoculated with BaMV and satBaMV vectors carrying sulphur and GFP genes, respectively, could simultaneously silence both genes. Moreover, the silenced plants could still survive with the silencing of genes essential for plant development such as heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and Hsp70. In addition, the satBaMV- but not BaMV-based vector could enhance gene-silencing efficiency in newly emerging leaves of N. benthamiana deficient in RNA-dependant RNA polymerase 6. The dual gene-silencing vector system of BaMV and satBaMV provides a novel tool for comparative functional studies in monocot and dicot plants.
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- Ming-Ru Liou
- Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Gene silencing and gene expression in phytopathogenic fungi using a plant virus vector. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:4291-6. [PMID: 24594602 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315668111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful approach for elucidating gene functions in a variety of organisms, including phytopathogenic fungi. In such fungi, RNAi has been induced by expressing hairpin RNAs delivered through plasmids, sequences integrated in fungal or plant genomes, or by RNAi generated in planta by a plant virus infection. All these approaches have some drawbacks ranging from instability of hairpin constructs in fungal cells to difficulties in preparing and handling transgenic plants to silence homologous sequences in fungi grown on these plants. Here we show that RNAi can be expressed in the phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum acutatum (strain C71) by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) without a plant intermediate, but by using the direct infection of a recombinant virus vector based on the plant virus, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). We provide evidence that a wild-type isolate of TMV is able to enter C71 cells grown in liquid medium, replicate, and persist therein. With a similar approach, a recombinant TMV vector carrying a gene for the ectopic expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) induced the stable silencing of the GFP in the C. acutatum transformant line 10 expressing GFP derived from C71. The TMV-based vector also enabled C. acutatum to transiently express exogenous GFP up to six subcultures and for at least 2 mo after infection, without the need to develop transformation technology. With these characteristics, we anticipate this approach will find wider application as a tool in functional genomics of filamentous fungi.
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Zhang JS, Zhao J, Zhang S, He C. Efficient gene silencing mediated by tobacco rattle virus in an emerging model plant physalis. PLoS One 2014; 9:e85534. [PMID: 24454885 PMCID: PMC3891815 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Accepted: 11/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The fruit of Physalis has a berry and a novelty called inflated calyx syndrome (ICS, also named the 'Chinese lantern'). Elucidation of the underlying developmental mechanisms of fruit diversity demands an efficient gene functional inference platform. Here, we tested the application of the tobacco rattle virus (TRV)-mediated gene-silencing system in Physalis floridana. First, we characterized the putative gene of a phytoene desaturase in P. floridana (PfPDS). Infecting the leaves of the Physalis seedlings with the PfPDS-TRV vector resulted in a bleached plant, including the developing leaves, floral organs, ICS, berry, and seed. These results indicated that a local VIGS treatment can efficiently induce a systemic mutated phenotype. qRT-PCR analyses revealed that the bleaching extent correlated to the mRNA reduction of the endogenous PfPDS. Detailed comparisons of multiple infiltration and growth protocols allowed us to determine the optimal methodologies for VIGS manipulation in Physalis. We subsequently utilized this optimized VIGS methodology to downregulate the expression of two MADS-box genes, MPF2 and MPF3, and compared the resulting effects with gene-downregulation mediated by RNA interference (RNAi) methods. The VIGS-mediated gene knockdown plants were found to resemble the mutated phenotypes of floral calyx, fruiting calyx and pollen maturation of the RNAi transgenic plants for both MPF2 and MPF3. Moreover, the two MADS-box genes were appeared to have a novel role in the pedicel development in P. floridana. The major advantage of VIGS-based gene knockdown lies in practical aspects of saving time and easy manipulation as compared to the RNAi. Despite the lack of heritability and mosaic mutation phenotypes observed in some organs, the TRV-mediated gene silencing system provides an alternative efficient way to infer gene function in various developmental processes in Physalis, thus facilitating understanding of the genetic basis of the evolution and development of the morphological diversities within the Solanaceae.
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- Ji-Si Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Tian J, Pei H, Zhang S, Chen J, Chen W, Yang R, Meng Y, You J, Gao J, Ma N. TRV-GFP: a modified Tobacco rattle virus vector for efficient and visualizable analysis of gene function. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2014; 65:311-22. [PMID: 24218330 PMCID: PMC3883300 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is a useful tool for functional characterization of genes in plants. Unfortunately, the efficiency of infection by Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) is relatively low for some non-Solanaceae plants, which are economically important, such as rose (Rosa sp.). Here, to generate an easy traceable TRV vector, a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene was tagged to the 3' terminus of the coat protein gene in the original TRV2 vector, and the silencing efficiency of the modified TRV-GFP vector was tested in several plants, including Nicotiana benthamiana, Arabidopsis thaliana, rose, strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), and chrysanthemum (Dendranthema grandiflorum). The results showed that the efficiency of infection by TRV-GFP was equal to that of the original TRV vector in each tested plant. Spread of the modified TRV virus was easy to monitor by using fluorescent microscopy and a hand-held UV lamp. When TRV-GFP was used to silence the endogenous phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene in rose cuttings and seedlings, the typical photobleached phenotype was observed in 75-80% plants which were identified as GFP positive by UV lamp. In addition, the abundance of GFP protein, which represented the concentration of TRV virus, was proved to correlate negatively with the level of the PDS gene, suggesting that GFP could be used as an indicator of the degree of silencing of a target gene. Taken together, this work provides a visualizable and efficient tool to predict positive gene silencing plants, which is valuable for research into gene function in plants, especially for non-Solanaceae plants.
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- Ji Tian
- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Huang YP, Chen JS, Hsu YH, Tsai CH. A putative Rab-GTPase activation protein from Nicotiana benthamiana is important for Bamboo mosaic virus intercellular movement. Virology 2013; 447:292-9. [PMID: 24210126 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2013] [Revised: 08/03/2013] [Accepted: 09/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism technique was applied to isolate the differentially expressed genes during Bamboo mosaic virus (BaMV) infection on Nicotiana benthamiana plants. One of the upregulated genes was cloned and predicted to contain a TBC domain designated as NbRabGAP1 (Rab GTPase activation protein 1). No significant difference was observed in BaMV accumulation in the NbRabGAP1-knockdown and the control protoplasts. However, BaMV accumulation was 50% and 2% in the inoculated and systemic leaves, respectively, of the knockdown plants to those of the control plants. By measuring the spreading area of BaMV infection foci in the inoculated leaves, we found that BaMV moved less efficiently in the NbRabGAP1-knockdown plants than in the control plants. Transient expression of the wild type NbRabGAP1 significantly increases BaMV accumulation in N. benthamiana. These results suggest that NbRabGAP1 with a functional Rab-GAP activity is involved in virus movement.
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- Ying-Ping Huang
- Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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Lee JH, Kim YC, Choi D, Park JM. Identification of novel pepper genes involved in Bax- or INF1-mediated cell death responses by high-throughput virus-induced gene silencing. Int J Mol Sci 2013; 14:22782-95. [PMID: 24256816 PMCID: PMC3856090 DOI: 10.3390/ijms141122782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 11/11/2013] [Accepted: 11/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Hot pepper is one of the economically important crops in Asia. A large number of gene sequences, including expressed sequence tag (EST) and genomic sequences are publicly available. However, it is still a daunting task to determine gene function due to difficulties in genetic modification of a pepper plants. Here, we show the application of the virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) repression for the study of 459 pepper ESTs selected as non-host pathogen-induced cell death responsive genes from pepper microarray experiments in Nicotiana benthamiana. Developmental abnormalities in N. benthamiana plants are observed in the 32 (7%) pepper ESTs-silenced plants. Aberrant morphological phenotypes largely comprised of three groups: stunted, abnormal leaf, and dead. In addition, by employing the combination of VIGS and Agrobacterium-mediated transient assays, we identified novel pepper ESTs that involved in Bax or INF1-mediated cell death responses. Silencing of seven pepper ESTs homologs suppressed Bax or INF1-induced cell death, five of which suppressed both cell death responses in N. benthamiana. The genes represented by these five ESTs encode putative proteins with functions in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and lipid signaling. The genes represented by the other two pepper ESTs showing only Bax-mediated cell death inhibition encode a CCCH-type zinc finger protein containing an ankyrin-repeat domain and a probable calcium-binding protein, CML30-like. Taken together, we effectively isolated novel pepper clones that are involved in hypersensitive response (HR)-like cell death using VIGS, and identified silenced clones that have different responses to Bax and INF1 exposure, indicating separate signaling pathways for Bax- and INF1-mediated cell death.
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- Jeong Hee Lee
- Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-600, Korea; E-Mails: (J.H.L.); (Y.C.K.); (D.C.)
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- Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-600, Korea; E-Mails: (J.H.L.); (Y.C.K.); (D.C.)
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- Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-600, Korea; E-Mails: (J.H.L.); (Y.C.K.); (D.C.)
- Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
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- Infection and Immunity Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-600, Korea; E-Mails: (J.H.L.); (Y.C.K.); (D.C.)
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Schäfer M, Brütting C, Gase K, Reichelt M, Baldwin I, Meldau S. 'Real time' genetic manipulation: a new tool for ecological field studies. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 76:506-18. [PMID: 23906159 PMCID: PMC4190501 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Revised: 05/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Field experiments with transgenic plants often reveal the functional significance of genetic traits that are important for the performance of the plants in their natural environments. Until now, only constitutive overexpression, ectopic expression and gene silencing methods have been used to analyze gene-related phenotypes in natural habitats. These methods do not allow sufficient control over gene expression for the study of ecological interactions in real time, of genetic traits that play essential roles in development, or of dose-dependent effects. We applied the sensitive dexamethasone (DEX)-inducible pOp6/LhGR expression system to the ecological model plant Nicotiana attenuata and established a lanolin-based DEX application method to facilitate ectopic gene expression and RNA interference-mediated gene silencing in the field and under challenging conditions (e.g. high temperature, wind and UV radiation). Fully established field-grown plants were used to silence phytoene desaturase and thereby cause photobleaching only in specific plant sectors, and to activate expression of the cytokinin (CK) biosynthesis gene isopentenyl transferase (ipt). We used ipt expression to analyze the role of CKs in both the glasshouse and the field to understand resistance to the native herbivore Tupiocoris notatus, which attacks plants at small spatial scales. By spatially restricting ipt expression and elevating CK levels in single leaves, damage by T. notatus increased, demonstrating the role of CKs in this plant-herbivore interaction at a small scale. As the arena of most ecological interactions is highly constrained in time and space, these tools will advance the genetic analysis of dynamic traits that matter for plant performance in nature.
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- Martin Schäfer
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Biochemistry, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Hans Knöll Str. 8, Jena 07745, Germany
- German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5, Leipzig 04107, Germany
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Xu A, Zhao Z, Chen W, Zhang H, Liao Q, Chen J, Carr JP, Du Z. Self-interaction of the cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein plays a vital role in the suppression of RNA silencing and the induction of viral symptoms. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2013; 14:803-12. [PMID: 23782515 PMCID: PMC6638684 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2b protein is an RNA silencing suppressor protein that can also play direct and indirect roles in symptom induction. Previous work has shown that a hybrid virus, FRad35(2b) -CMV (renamed here as CMV-FRad2b-Pro), generated by replacement of the 2b gene of strain Fny-CMV with that from Rad35-CMV, displays markedly lower pathogenicity than Fny-CMV on Nicotiana species. However, the replacement of proline with leucine at position 55 of the 2b protein of CMV-FRad2b-Pro (protein Rad2b-Pro) created a virus (CMV-FRad2b-Leu) that induced severe symptoms. Infection of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants defective in the expression of DICER-like (DCL) endoribonucleases 2 and 4, which mediate antiviral RNA silencing, as well as of dcl3 and dcl2/3/4 triple-mutant plants, indicated that Rad2b-Pro was a weaker RNA silencing suppressor than the protein Rad2b-Leu. This was confirmed in Nicotiana benthamiana using agroinfiltration assays, showing that, compared with either Rad2b-Leu or the Fny2b protein, Rad2b-Pro was ineffective at inhibiting local or systemic silencing of expression of a green fluorescent protein reporter gene. Transgenic expression of Rad2b-Leu, but not of Rad2b-Pro, in Arabidopsis induced symptom-like phenotypes and rescued the accumulation of the 2b-deletion mutant Fny-CMVΔ2b. Bimolecular fluorescent complementation indicated that, in planta, Rad2b-Leu, but not Rad2b-Pro, self-interacts. Thus, self-interaction is crucial to the ability of the 2b protein to suppress silencing and induce a symptom-like phenotype, and is dependent on the properties of the residue at position 55.
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- Aixia Xu
- Institute of Bioengineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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Pang J, Zhu Y, Li Q, Liu J, Tian Y, Liu Y, Wu J. Development of Agrobacterium-mediated virus-induced gene silencing and performance evaluation of four marker genes in Gossypium barbadense. PLoS One 2013; 8:e73211. [PMID: 24023833 PMCID: PMC3759462 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Gossypiumbarbadense is a cultivated cotton species and possesses many desirable traits, including high fiber quality and resistance to pathogens, especially Verticilliumdahliae (a devastating pathogen of Gossypium hirsutum, the main cultivated species). These elite traits are difficult to be introduced into G. hirsutum through classical breeding methods. In addition, genetic transformation of G. barbadense has not been successfully performed. It is therefore important to develop methods for evaluating the function and molecular mechanism of genes in G. barbadense. In this study, we had successfully introduced a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) system into three cultivars of G. barbadense by inserting marker genes into the tobacco rattle virus (TRV) vector. After we optimized the VIGS conditions, including light intensity, photoperiod, seedling age and Agrobacterium strain, 100% of plants agroinfiltrated with the GaPDS silencing vector showed white colored leaves. Three other marker genes, GaCLA1, GaANS and GaANR, were employed to further test this VIGS system in G. barbadense. The transcript levels of the endogenous genes in the silenced plants were reduced by more than 99% compared to control plants; these plants presented phenotypic symptoms 2 weeks after inoculation. We introduced a fusing sequence fragment of GaPDS and GaANR gene silencing vectors into a single plant, which resulted in both photobleaching and brownish coloration. The extent of silencing in plants agroinfiltrated with fusing two-gene-silencing vector was consistent with plants harboring a single gene silencing vector. The development of this VIGS system should promote analysis of gene function in G. barbadense, and help to contribute desirable traits for breeding of G. barbadense and G. hirsutum.
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- Jinhuan Pang
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology of CRI, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology of CRI, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology of CRI, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology of CRI, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology of CRI, CAAS, Anyang, Henan, China
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Zavaliev R, Levy A, Gera A, Epel BL. Subcellular dynamics and role of Arabidopsis β-1,3-glucanases in cell-to-cell movement of tobamoviruses. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2013; 26:1016-30. [PMID: 23656331 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-03-13-0062-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
β-1,3-Glucanases (BG) have been implicated in enhancing virus spread by degrading callose at plasmodesmata (Pd). Here, we investigate the role of Arabidopsis BG in tobamovirus spread. During Turnip vein clearing virus infection, the transcription of two pathogenesis-related (PR)-BG AtBG2 and AtBG3 increased but that of Pd-associated BG AtBG_pap did not change. In transgenic plants, AtBG2 was retained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network and was not secreted. As a stress response mediated by salicylic acid, AtBG2 was secreted and appeared as a free extracellular protein localized in the entire apoplast but did not accumulate at Pd sites. At the leading edge of Tobacco mosaic virus spread, AtBG2 co-localized with the viral movement protein in the ER-derived bodies, similarly to other ER proteins, but was not secreted to the cell wall. In atbg2 mutants, callose levels at Pd and virus spread were unaffected. Likewise, AtBG2 overexpression had no effect on virus spread. However, in atbg_pap mutants, callose at Pd was increased and virus spread was reduced. Our results demonstrate that the constitutive Pd-associated BG but not the stress-regulated extracellular PR-BG are directly involved in regulation of callose at Pd and cell-to-cell transport in Arabidopsis, including the spread of viruses.
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- Raul Zavaliev
- Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Shimura H, Masuta C, Yoshida N, Sueda K, Suzuki M. The 2b protein of Asparagus virus 2 functions as an RNA silencing suppressor against systemic silencing to prove functional synteny with related cucumoviruses. Virology 2013; 442:180-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Revised: 04/05/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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