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Wang L, Poque S, Laamanen K, Saarela J, Poso A, Laitinen T, Valkonen JPT. In Vitro Identification and In Vivo Confirmation of Inhibitors for Sweet Potato Chlorotic Stunt Virus RNA Silencing Suppressor, a Viral RNase III. J Virol 2021; 95:e00107-21. [PMID: 33827953 PMCID: PMC8315922 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00107-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD), caused by synergistic infection of Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV) and Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV), is responsible for substantial yield losses all over the world. However, there are currently no approved treatments for this severe disease. The crucial role played by RNase III of SPCSV (CSR3) as an RNA silencing suppressor during the viruses' synergistic interaction in sweetpotato makes it an ideal drug target for developing antiviral treatment. In this study, high-throughput screening (HTS) of small molecular libraries targeting CSR3 was initiated by a virtual screen using Glide docking, allowing the selection of 6,400 compounds out of 136,353. We subsequently developed and carried out kinetic-based HTS using fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology, which isolated 112 compounds. These compounds were validated with dose-response assays including kinetic-based HTS and binding affinity assays using surface plasmon resonance and microscale thermophoresis. Finally, the interference of the selected compounds with viral accumulation was verified in planta In summary, we identified five compounds belonging to two structural classes that inhibited CSR3 activity and reduced viral accumulation in plants. These results provide the foundation for developing antiviral agents targeting CSR3 to provide new strategies for controlling sweetpotato virus diseases.IMPORTANCE We report here a high-throughput inhibitor identification method that targets a severe sweetpotato virus disease caused by coinfection with two viruses (SPCSV and SPFMV). The disease is responsible for up to 90% yield losses. Specifically, we targeted the RNase III enzyme encoded by SPCSV, which plays an important role in suppressing the RNA silencing defense system of sweetpotato plants. Based on virtual screening, laboratory assays, and confirmation in planta, we identified five compounds that could be used to develop antiviral drugs to combat the most severe sweetpotato virus disease.
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- Linping Wang
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Internal Medicine VIII, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Wang L, Saarela J, Poque S, Valkonen JP. Development of FRET-based high-throughput screening for viral RNase III inhibitors. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2020; 21:961-974. [PMID: 32436305 PMCID: PMC7280029 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The class 1 ribonuclease III (RNase III) encoded by Sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (CSR3) suppresses RNA silencing in plant cells and thereby counters the host antiviral response by cleaving host small interfering RNAs, which are indispensable components of the plant RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. The synergy between sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus and sweet potato feathery mottle virus can reduce crop yields by 90%. Inhibitors of CSR3 might prove efficacious to counter this viral threat, yet no screen has been carried out to identify such inhibitors. Here, we report a novel high-throughput screening (HTS) assay based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for identifying inhibitors of CSR3. For monitoring CSR3 activity via HTS, we used a small interfering RNA substrate that was labelled with a FRET-compatible dye. The optimized HTS assay yielded 109 potential inhibitors of CSR3 out of 6,620 compounds tested from different small-molecule libraries. The three best inhibitor candidates were validated with a dose-response assay. In addition, a parallel screen of the selected candidates was carried out for a similar class 1 RNase III enzyme from Escherichia coli (EcR3), and this screen yielded a different set of inhibitors. Thus, our results show that the CSR3 and EcR3 enzymes were inhibited by distinct types of molecules, indicating that this HTS assay could be widely applied in drug discovery of class 1 RNase III enzymes.
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- Linping Wang
- Department of Agricultural SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine FinlandUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Agricultural SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Agricultural SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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Hu F, Lei R, Deng YF, Wang J, Li GF, Wang CN, Li ZH, Zhu SF. Discovery of novel inhibitors of RNA silencing suppressor P19 based on virtual screening. RSC Adv 2018; 8:10532-10540. [PMID: 35540466 PMCID: PMC9078884 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra01311j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The combined virtual and experimental screening method is a efficient strategy to discover inhibitors of RNA silencing suppressor.
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- Fan Hu
- College of Plant Protection
- China Agricultural University
- Beijing
- China
- Institute of Plant Quarantine
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- Institute of Plant Quarantine
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine
- Beijing
- China
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- College of Plant Protection
- China Agricultural University
- Beijing
- China
- Institute of Plant Quarantine
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- Institute of Plant Quarantine
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine
- Beijing
- China
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- Institute of Plant Quarantine
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine
- Beijing
- China
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- College of Plant Protection
- China Agricultural University
- Beijing
- China
- Institute of Plant Quarantine
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- College of Plant Protection
- China Agricultural University
- Beijing
- China
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- College of Plant Protection
- China Agricultural University
- Beijing
- China
- Institute of Plant Quarantine
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Hirano Y, Nakagawa M, Suyama T, Murase K, Shirakawa M, Takayama S, Sun TP, Hakoshima T. Structure of the SHR-SCR heterodimer bound to the BIRD/IDD transcriptional factor JKD. NATURE PLANTS 2017; 3:17010. [PMID: 28211915 PMCID: PMC5639936 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2017.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 01/23/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The plant-specific GAI, RGA and SCR (GRAS) family proteins play critical roles in plant development and signalling. Two GRAS proteins, SHORT-ROOT (SHR) and SCARECROW (SCR), cooperatively direct asymmetric cell division and the patterning of root cell types by transcriptional control in conjunction with BIRD/INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) transcription factors, although precise details of these specific interactions and actions remain unknown. Here, we present the crystal structures of the SHR-SCR binary and JACKDAW (JKD)/IDD10-SHR-SCR ternary complexes. Each GRAS domain comprises one α/β core subdomain with an α-helical cap that mediates heterodimerization by forming an intermolecular helix bundle. The α/β core subdomain of SHR forms the BIRD binding groove, which specifically recognizes the zinc fingers of JKD. We identified a conserved SHR-binding motif in 13 BIRD/IDD transcription factors. Our results establish a structural basis for GRAS-GRAS and GRAS-BIRD interactions and provide valuable clues towards our understanding of these regulators, which are involved in plant-specific signalling networks.
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- Yoshinori Hirano
- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
- The Laboratory of Intercellular Communication, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- The Laboratory of Intercellular Communication, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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Murota K, Shimura H, Takeshita M, Masuta C. Interaction between Cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein and plant catalase induces a specific necrosis in association with proteasome activity. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2017; 36:37-47. [PMID: 27659495 PMCID: PMC5206265 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-2055-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/06/2016] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) can induce a specific necrosis on Arabidopsis through the interaction between the CMV 2b protein and host catalase, in which the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway may be involved. We previously reported that the CMV 2b protein, the viral RNA silencing suppressor, interacted with the H2O2 scavenger catalase (CAT3), leading to necrosis on CMV-inoculated Arabidopsis leaves. We here confirmed that CMV could more abundantly accumulate in the CAT3-knockout mutant (cat3), and that CAT3 makes host plants a little more tolerant to CMV. We also found that the necrosis severity is not simply explained by a high level of H2O2 given by the lack of CAT3, because the recombinant CMV, CMV-N, induced much milder necrosis in cat3 than in the wild type, suggesting some specific mechanism for the necrosis induction. To further characterize the 2b-inducing necrosis in relation to its binding to CAT3, we conducted the agroinfiltration experiments to overexpress CAT3 and 2b in N. benthamiana leaves. The accumulation levels of CAT3 were higher when co-expressed with the CMV-N 2b (N2b) than with CMV-Y 2b (Y2b). We infer that N2b made a more stable complex with CAT3 than Y2b did, and the longevity of the 2b-CAT3 complex seemed to be important to induce necrosis. By immunoprecipitation (IP) with an anti-ubiquitin antibody followed by the detection with anti-CAT3 antibodies, we detected a higher molecular-weight smear and several breakdown products of CAT3 among the IP-proteins. In addition, the proteasome inhibitor MG132 treatment could actually increase the accumulation levels of CAT3. This study suggests that the host proteasome pathway is, at least partially, responsible for the degradation of CAT3, which is manifested in CMV-infected tissues.
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- Katsunori Murota
- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku kita 9, Nishi 9, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku kita 9, Nishi 9, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku kita 9, Nishi 9, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan.
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Vargason JM, Burch CJ, Wilson JW. Identification and RNA binding characterization of plant virus RNA silencing suppressor proteins. Methods 2013; 64:88-93. [PMID: 23981361 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Revised: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Suppression is a common mechanism employed by viruses to evade the antiviral effects of the host's RNA silencing pathway. The activity of suppression has commonly been localized to gene products in the virus, but the variety of mechanisms used in suppression by these viral proteins spans nearly the complete biochemical pathway of RNA silencing in the host. This review describes the agrofiltration assay and a slightly modified version of the agro-infiltration assay called co-infiltration, which are common methods used to observe RNA silencing and identify viral silencing suppressor proteins in plants, respectively. In addition, this review will provide an overview of two methods, electrophoretic mobility shift assay and fluorescence polarization, used to assess the binding of a suppressor protein to siRNA which has been shown to be a general mechanism to suppress RNA silencing by plant viruses.
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- Jeffrey M Vargason
- Department of Biology and Chemistry, George Fox University, 414 North Meridian Street, Newberg, OR 97132, USA.
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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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Nakahara KS, Masuta C, Yamada S, Shimura H, Kashihara Y, Wada TS, Meguro A, Goto K, Tadamura K, Sueda K, Sekiguchi T, Shao J, Itchoda N, Matsumura T, Igarashi M, Ito K, Carthew RW, Uyeda I. Tobacco calmodulin-like protein provides secondary defense by binding to and directing degradation of virus RNA silencing suppressors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:10113-8. [PMID: 22665793 PMCID: PMC3382489 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201628109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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RNA silencing (RNAi) induced by virus-derived double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), which is in a sense regarded as a pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) of viruses, is a general plant defense mechanism. To counteract this defense, plant viruses express RNA silencing suppressors (RSSs), many of which bind to dsRNA and attenuate RNAi. We showed that the tobacco calmodulin-like protein, rgs-CaM, counterattacked viral RSSs by binding to their dsRNA-binding domains and sequestering them from inhibiting RNAi. Autophagy-like protein degradation seemed to operate to degrade RSSs with the sacrifice of rgs-CaM. These RSSs could thus be regarded as secondary viral PAMPs. This study uncovered a unique defense system in which an rgs-CaM-mediated countermeasure against viral RSSs enhanced host antiviral RNAi in tobacco.
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- Kenji S. Nakahara
- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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- Plant Breeding and Production Division, Agricultural Research Institute, Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Naganuma, Hokkaido 069-1317, Japan
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- Plant Molecular Technology Research Group, Research Institute of Genome-Based Biofactory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan
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- Department of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan; and
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- Department of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan; and
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
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- Plant Breeding Science, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
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González I, Rakitina D, Semashko M, Taliansky M, Praveen S, Palukaitis P, Carr JP, Kalinina N, Canto T. RNA binding is more critical to the suppression of silencing function of Cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein than nuclear localization. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2012; 18:771-82. [PMID: 22357910 PMCID: PMC3312564 DOI: 10.1261/rna.031260.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Previously, we found that silencing suppression by the 2b protein and six mutants correlated both with their ability to bind to double-stranded (ds) small RNAs (sRNAs) in vitro and with their nuclear/nucleolar localization. To further discern the contribution to suppression activity of sRNA binding and of nuclear localization, we have characterized the kinetics of in vitro binding to a ds sRNA, a single-stranded (ss) sRNA, and a micro RNA (miRNA) of the native 2b protein and eight mutant variants. We have also added a nuclear export signal (NES) to the 2b protein and assessed how it affected subcellular distribution and suppressor activity. We found that in solution native protein bound ds siRNA, miRNA, and ss sRNA with high affinity, at protein:RNA molar ratios ~2:1. Of the four mutants that retained suppressor activity, three showed sRNA binding profiles similar to those of the native protein, whereas the remaining one bound ss sRNA at a 2:1 molar ratio, but both ds sRNAs with 1.5-2 times slightly lower affinity. Three of the four mutants lacking suppressor activity failed to bind to any sRNA, whereas the remaining one bound them at far higher ratios. NES-tagged 2b protein became cytoplasmic, but suppression activity in patch assays remained unaffected. These results support binding to sRNAs at molar ratios at or near 2:1 as critical to the suppressor activity of the 2b protein. They also show that cytoplasmically localized 2b protein retained suppressor activity, and that a sustained nuclear localization was not required for this function.
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 119991, Russia
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 119991, Russia
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- The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Indian Agricultural Research institute, New Delhi 110-012, India
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
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- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 119991, Russia
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CIB, CSIC, Madrid 28040, Spain
- Corresponding author.E-mail .
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Takeshita M, Koizumi E, Noguchi M, Sueda K, Shimura H, Ishikawa N, Matsuura H, Ohshima K, Natsuaki T, Kuwata S, Furuya N, Tsuchiya K, Masuta C. Infection dynamics in viral spread and interference under the synergism between Cucumber mosaic virus and Turnip mosaic virus. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2012; 25:18-27. [PMID: 21916556 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-06-11-0170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Mixed infection of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) induced more severe symptoms on Nicotiana benthamiana than single infection. To dissect the relationships between spatial infection patterns and the 2b protein (2b) of CMV in single or mixed infections, the CMV vectors expressing enhanced green fluorescent or Discosoma sp. red fluorescent proteins (EGFP [EG] or DsRed2 [Ds], respectively were constructed from the same wild-type CMV-Y and used for inoculation onto N. benthamiana. CMV2-A1 vector (C2-A1 [A1]) has a functional 2b while CMV-H1 vector (C2-H1 [H1]) is 2b deficient. As we expected from the 2b function as an RNA silencing suppressor (RSS), in a single infection, A1Ds retained a high level of accumulation at initial infection sites and showed extensive fluorescence in upper, noninoculated leaves, whereas H1Ds disappeared rapidly at initial infection sites and could not spread efficiently in upper, noninoculated leaf tissues. In various mixed infections, we found two phenomena providing novel insights into the relationships among RSS, viral synergism, and interference. First, H1Ds could not spread efficiently from vasculature into nonvascular tissues with or without TuMV, suggesting that RNA silencing was not involved in CMV unloading from vasculature. These results indicated that 2b could promote CMV to unload from vasculature into nonvascular tissues, and that this 2b function might be independent of its RSS activity. Second, we detected spatial interference (local interference) between A1Ds and A1EG in mixed infection with TuMV, between A1Ds (or H1Ds) and TuMV, and between H1Ds and H1EG. This observation suggested that local interference between two viruses was established even in the synergism between CMV and TuMV and, again, RNA silencing did not seem to contribute greatly to this phenomenon.
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Shimura H, Masuta C. Structural and functional analysis of CMV satellite RNAs in RNA silencing. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 894:273-86. [PMID: 22678586 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-882-5_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Viroids and satellite RNAs, which are the smallest infectious agents in plants, have noncoding RNA genomes and characteristic secondary structures. Some satellite RNAs (satRNAs) cause disease symptoms that are different from those induced by their helper virus. This phenomenon has been implicated in RNA silencing of host gene(s) as a result of sequence identity or complementarity between satRNAs and host RNAs. To investigate the effects of satRNA sequence on direct coincident interference with host gene expression, we developed a transient RNA silencing assay using protoplasts. With this protoplast system, we can induce various forms and lengths of silencing inducers at various concentrations to uniform cells without viral infection, and then we can use the satRNA-treated protoplasts in further analyses such as real-time RT-PCR and northern blot hybridization analyses to investigate whether the satRNA-induced symptoms are due to down-regulation of the target gene expression.
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- Hanako Shimura
- Laboratory of Cell Biology and Manipulation, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Inaba JI, Kim BM, Shimura H, Masuta C. Virus-induced necrosis is a consequence of direct protein-protein interaction between a viral RNA-silencing suppressor and a host catalase. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 156:2026-36. [PMID: 21622812 PMCID: PMC3149961 DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.180042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2011] [Accepted: 05/26/2011] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Many plant host factors are known to interact with viral proteins during pathogenesis, but how a plant virus induces a specific disease symptom still needs further research. A lily strain of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV-HL) can induce discrete necrotic spots on infected Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants; other CMV strains can induce similar spots, but they are not as distinct as those induced by CMV-HL. The CMV 2b protein (2b), a known RNA-silencing suppressor, is involved in viral movement and symptom induction. Using in situ proximity ligation assay immunostaining and the protoplast assays, we report here that CMV 2b interacts directly with Catalase3 (CAT3) in infected tissues, a key enzyme in the breakdown of toxic hydrogen peroxide. Interestingly, CAT3, normally localized in the cytoplasm (glyoxysome), was recruited to the nucleus by an interaction between 2b and CAT3. Although overexpression of CAT3 in transgenic plants decreased the accumulation of CMV and delayed viral symptom development to some extent, 2b seems to neutralize the cellular catalase contributing to the host defense response, thus favoring viral infection. Our results thus provide evidence that, in addition to altering the type of symptom by disturbing microRNA pathways, 2b can directly bind to a host factor that is important in scavenging cellular hydrogen peroxide and thus interfere specifically with that host factor, leading to the induction of a specific necrosis.
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Shimura H, Pantaleo V, Ishihara T, Myojo N, Inaba JI, Sueda K, Burgyán J, Masuta C. A viral satellite RNA induces yellow symptoms on tobacco by targeting a gene involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis using the RNA silencing machinery. PLoS Pathog 2011; 7:e1002021. [PMID: 21573143 PMCID: PMC3088725 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2010] [Accepted: 02/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Symptoms on virus-infected plants are often very specific to the given virus. The molecular mechanisms involved in viral symptom induction have been extensively studied, but are still poorly understood. Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) Y satellite RNA (Y-sat) is a non-coding subviral RNA and modifies the typical symptom induced by CMV in specific hosts; Y-sat causes a bright yellow mosaic on its natural host Nicotiana tabacum. The Y-sat-induced yellow mosaic failed to develop in the infected Arabidopsis and tomato plants suggesting a very specific interaction between Y-sat and its host. In this study, we revealed that Y-sat produces specific short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which interfere with a host gene, thus inducing the specific symptom. We found that the mRNA of tobacco magnesium protoporphyrin chelatase subunit I (ChlI, the key gene involved in chlorophyll synthesis) had a 22-nt sequence that was complementary to the Y-sat sequence, including four G-U pairs, and that the Y-sat-derived siRNAs in the virus-infected plant downregulate the mRNA of ChlI by targeting the complementary sequence. ChlI mRNA was also downregulated in the transgenic lines that express Y-sat inverted repeats. Strikingly, modifying the Y-sat sequence in order to restore the 22-nt complementarity to Arabidopsis and tomato ChlI mRNA resulted in yellowing symptoms in Y-sat-infected Arabidopsis and tomato, respectively. In 5'-RACE experiments, the ChlI transcript was cleaved at the expected middle position of the 22-nt complementary sequence. In GFP sensor experiments using agroinfiltration, we further demonstrated that Y-sat specifically targeted the sensor mRNA containing the 22-nt complementary sequence of ChlI. Our findings provide direct evidence that the identified siRNAs derived from viral satellite RNA directly modulate the viral disease symptom by RNA silencing-based regulation of a host gene.
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MESH Headings
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Arabidopsis/virology
- Base Sequence
- Capsicum/genetics
- Capsicum/virology
- Chlorophyll/biosynthesis
- Chlorophyll/genetics
- Cucumber Mosaic Virus Satellite/genetics
- Cucumber Mosaic Virus Satellite/metabolism
- Cucumovirus/metabolism
- Cucumovirus/pathogenicity
- Down-Regulation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genes, Plant
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Lyases/genetics
- Lyases/metabolism
- Solanum lycopersicum/genetics
- Solanum lycopersicum/virology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Plant Diseases/genetics
- Plant Diseases/virology
- Plants, Genetically Modified/enzymology
- Plants, Genetically Modified/genetics
- Plants, Genetically Modified/virology
- RNA Interference
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
- RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- RNA, Viral/metabolism
- Nicotiana/enzymology
- Nicotiana/genetics
- Nicotiana/virology
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Affiliation(s)
- Hanako Shimura
- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido
University, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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Kanazawa A, Inaba JI, Shimura H, Otagaki S, Tsukahara S, Matsuzawa A, Kim BM, Goto K, Masuta C. Virus-mediated efficient induction of epigenetic modifications of endogenous genes with phenotypic changes in plants. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 65:156-168. [PMID: 21175898 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04401.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
Gene silencing through transcriptional repression can be induced by targeting double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to a gene promoter. It has been reported that a transgene was silenced by targeting dsRNA to the promoter, and the silenced state was inherited to the progeny plant even after removal of the silencing inducer from cells. In contrast, no plant has been produced that harbors silenced endogenous gene after removal of promoter-targeting dsRNA. Here, we show that heritable gene silencing can be induced by targeting dsRNA to the endogenous gene promoters in petunia and tomato plants, using the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV)-based vector. We found that efficient silencing of endogenous genes depends on the function of the 2b protein encoded in the vector virus, which has the ability to facilitate epigenetic modifications through the transport of short interfering RNA to nucleus. Bisulfite sequencing analyses on the targeted promoter in the virus-infected and its progeny plants revealed that cytosine methylation was found not only at CG or CNG but also at CNN sites. The observed inheritance of asymmetric DNA methylation is quite unique, suggesting that plants have a mechanism to maintain even asymmetric methylation. This CMV-based gene silencing system provides a useful tool to artificially modify DNA methylation in plant genomes and elucidate the mechanism for epigenetic controls.
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- Akira Kanazawa
- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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- Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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Fukuzawa N, Itchoda N, Ishihara T, Goto K, Masuta C, Matsumura T. HC-Pro, a potyvirus RNA silencing suppressor, cancels cycling of Cucumber mosaic virus in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Virus Genes 2010; 40:440-6. [PMID: 20162445 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-010-0460-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The mixed infection of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and a potyvirus has been known to increase CMV titer in Nicotiana benthamiana plants, resulting in synergistic viral symptoms. We found that among three potyviruses--Potato virus Y (PVY), Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), and Clover yellow vein virus (C1YVV)--synergistic effects on CMV (or a recombinant CMV vector) titers were most efficiently induced by a co-infection with PVY in N. benthamiana plants. In addition, the helper component-proteinase (HC-Pro) gene of PVY expressed by transgenic plants, which is a viral RNA silencing suppressor, was sufficient to cancel the cycling pattern of CMV titer, resulting in increased levels of overall CMV accumulation. Surprisingly, we found that the levels of CMV and the foreign protein expressed from the CMV vector were much higher in the HC-Pro-transgenic plants than the levels detected in the plants mixed-infected with CMV and PVY. The mechanism for canceling the cyclic infection of CMV by the HC-Pro protein alone is discussed in view of the interaction between RNA silencing and HC-Pro, as well as the possible involvement of the 3a protein.
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- Noriho Fukuzawa
- Plant Molecular Technology Research Group, Research Institute of Genome-based Biofactory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-17-1-1 Tsukisamuhigashi Toyohira-Ku, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan
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Rich RL, Myszka DG. Grading the commercial optical biosensor literature-Class of 2008: 'The Mighty Binders'. J Mol Recognit 2010; 23:1-64. [PMID: 20017116 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.1004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Optical biosensor technology continues to be the method of choice for label-free, real-time interaction analysis. But when it comes to improving the quality of the biosensor literature, education should be fundamental. Of the 1413 articles published in 2008, less than 30% would pass the requirements for high-school chemistry. To teach by example, we spotlight 10 papers that illustrate how to implement the technology properly. Then we grade every paper published in 2008 on a scale from A to F and outline what features make a biosensor article fabulous, middling or abysmal. To help improve the quality of published data, we focus on a few experimental, analysis and presentation mistakes that are alarmingly common. With the literature as a guide, we want to ensure that no user is left behind.
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- Rebecca L Rich
- Center for Biomolecular Interaction Analysis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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Asaoka R, Shimura H, Arai M, Masuta C. A progeny virus from a cucumovirus pseudorecombinant evolved to gain the ability to accumulate Its RNA-silencing suppressor leading to systemic infection in tobacco. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2010; 23:332-9. [PMID: 20121454 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-23-3-0332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Two isolates of Tomato aspermy virus (TAV), V-TAV and C-TAV, can systemically infect Nicotiana benthamiana but only C-TAV can move systemically in N. tabacum. Any pseudorecombinants between the two strains could not move systemically in tobacco as efficiently as C-TAV. However, a pseudorecombinant consisting of RNAs 1 and 3 of V-TAV and RNA 2 of C-TAV (V1C2V3), which cannot infect tobacco systemically, generated progeny with a mutation in V1 and a recombination in C2 (V1(m)C2(r)V3), enabling the virus to move systemically. To avoid further mutation and recombination in the virus, we used Cucumber mosaic virus RNA3 (Y3) for subsequent experiments. Northern blot analyses showed that RNA4A, which encodes the 2b protein (2b), and RNA5 abundantly accumulated in V1(m)C2(r)Y3-infected tobacco. V1(m)C2(r)Y3 actually caused higher accumulation of 2b than did V1C2Y3 in Western blots, and overexpression of 2b by the PVX vector enabled V1C2Y3 to move systemically in tobacco, suggesting that 2b accumulation promotes viral systemic movement. Because RNA-silencing suppressor (RSS) activity of 2b was thought to be involved in systemic movement, we compared the RSS activity of 2b for the two TAV isolates; C-TAV 2b had stronger activity than did V-TAV 2b in tobacco in a transient protoplast assay. Our data also demonstrated that 2b and RNA5 play an important role in the evolution of members of genus Cucumovirus by generating mutant/recombinant viruses and viral systemic movement over RNA silencing.
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- Ryota Asaoka
- Laboratory Of Cell Biology And Manipulation, Graduate School Of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Kim BM, Suehiro N, Natsuaki T, Inukai T, Masuta C. The P3 protein of turnip mosaic virus can alone induce hypersensitive response-like cell death in Arabidopsis thaliana carrying TuNI. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2010; 23:144-152. [PMID: 20064058 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-23-2-0144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Strains TuR1 and TuC of Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) induce different symptoms on Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Landsberg erecta (Ler); plants infected with TuR1 develop systemic necrosis, while TuC causes mosaics. We previously found that the Ler systemic necrosis was controlled by a single dominant gene, TuNI (TuMV necrosis inducer), and that it was actually a form of host defense response leading to a hypersensitive reaction (HR)-like cell death. To identify the viral factor interacting with TuNI, the domain swapping between the genomic clones of TuR1 and TuC was carried out, and we identified the TuMV symptom determinant interacting with TuNI as the P3 gene. Moreover, it was found that the central 0.5-kb domain of P3, including three different amino acids between the two isolates, was responsible for the systemic HR. To verify that the P3 gene can alone induce necrosis, we analyzed the constitutive P3 expression in Ler transgenic plants and the transient P3 expression in Ler protoplasts. These results indicated that P3 alone caused HR-like cell death. In this study, we successfully demonstrated that the systemic necrosis by TuMV in Arabidopsis was determined by the gene-for-gene interaction between TuNI and P3 using the protoplast system for direct verification.
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- Bo Min Kim
- Graduate School of Agrculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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The C-terminal residues of the 2b protein of Cucumber mosaic virus
are important for efficient expression in Escherichia coli
and DNA-binding. FEBS Lett 2010; 584:945-50. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.01.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2009] [Revised: 12/29/2009] [Accepted: 01/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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