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Cisneros AE, Lisón P, Campos L, López-Tubau JM, Altabella T, Ferrer A, Daròs JA, Carbonell A. Down-regulation of tomato STEROL GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 1 perturbs plant development and facilitates viroid infection. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 74:1564-1578. [PMID: 36111947 PMCID: PMC10010610 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is a plant pathogen naturally infecting economically important crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Here, we aimed to engineer tomato plants highly resistant to PSTVd and developed several S. lycopersicum lines expressing an artificial microRNA (amiRNA) against PSTVd (amiR-PSTVd). Infectivity assays revealed that amiR-PSTVd-expressing lines were not resistant but instead hypersusceptible to the viroid. A combination of phenotypic, molecular, and metabolic analyses of amiRNA-expressing lines non-inoculated with the viroid revealed that amiR-PSTVd was accidentally silencing the tomato STEROL GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 1 (SlSGT1) gene, which caused late developmental and reproductive defects such as leaf epinasty, dwarfism, or reduced fruit size. Importantly, two independent transgenic tomato lines each expressing a different amiRNA specifically designed to target SlSGT1 were also hypersusceptible to PSTVd, thus demonstrating that down-regulation of SlSGT1 was responsible for the viroid-hypersusceptibility phenotype. Our results highlight the role of sterol glycosyltransferases in proper plant development and indicate that the imbalance of sterol glycosylation levels favors viroid infection, most likely by facilitating viroid movement.
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- Adriana E Cisneros
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-IAB-UB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-IAB-UB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-IAB-UB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Universitat Politècnica de València), 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Zhang X, Liu H. "Always learn today, stand ready to act tomorrow"-Po Tien: A pioneer of Virology in China. Protein Cell 2021; 13:79-81. [PMID: 34708339 PMCID: PMC8549587 DOI: 10.1007/s13238-021-00870-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Xin Zhang
- Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China. .,Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 102206, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan, 430072, China.
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Naoi T, Hataya T. Tolerance Even to Lethal Strain of Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Found in Wild Tomato Species Can Be Introduced by Crossing. PLANTS 2021; 10:plants10030575. [PMID: 33803660 PMCID: PMC8003082 DOI: 10.3390/plants10030575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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To date, natural resistance or tolerance, which can be introduced into crops by crossing, to potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) has not been reported. Additionally, responses to PSTVd infection in many wild tomato species, including some species that can be crossed with PSTVd-susceptible cultivated tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum var. lycoperaicum), have not been ascertained. The aim of this study was to evaluate responses to PSTVd infection including resistance and tolerance. Accordingly, we inoculated several cultivated and wild tomato species with intermediate and lethal strains of PSTVd. None of the host plants exhibited sufficient resistance to PSTVd to render systemic infection impossible; however, these plants displayed other responses, including tolerance. Further analysis of PSTVd accumulation revealed low accumulation of PSTVd in two wild species, exhibiting high tolerance, even to the lethal strain. Additionally, F1 hybrids generated by crossing a PSTVd-sensitive wild tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme) with these wild relatives also exhibited tolerance to the lethal PSTVd strain, which is accompanied by low PSTVd accumulation during early infection. These results indicate that the tolerance toward PSTVd in wild species is a dominant trait and can be utilized for tomato breeding by crossing.
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- Takashi Naoi
- Pathogen-Plant Interactions, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan;
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- Pathogen-Plant Interactions, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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Nazarov PA, Baleev DN, Ivanova MI, Sokolova LM, Karakozova MV. Infectious Plant Diseases: Etiology, Current Status, Problems and Prospects in Plant Protection. Acta Naturae 2020; 12:46-59. [PMID: 33173596 PMCID: PMC7604890 DOI: 10.32607/actanaturae.11026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of diseases caused by bacterial, fungal, and viral infections. Infections affect plants at different stages of agricultural production. Depending on weather conditions and the phytosanitary condition of crops, the prevalence of diseases can reach 70-80% of the total plant population, and the yield can decrease in some cases down to 80-98%. Plants have innate cellular immunity, but specific phytopathogens have an ability to evade that immunity. This article examined phytopathogens of viral, fungal, and bacterial nature and explored the concepts of modern plant protection, methods of chemical, biological, and agrotechnical control, as well as modern methods used for identifying phytopathogens.
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- P. A. Nazarov
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, 141701 Russia
- Federal Scientific Vegetable Center, VNIISSOK, Moscow region, 143080 Russia
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- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Moscow, 117216 Russia
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- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Vegetable Growing, Branch of the Federal Scientific Vegetable Center, Vereya, Moscow region, 140153 Russia
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- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Vegetable Growing, Branch of the Federal Scientific Vegetable Center, Vereya, Moscow region, 140153 Russia
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- Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 121205 Russia
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Catalytic RNA, ribozyme, and its applications in synthetic biology. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 37:107452. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.107452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2019] [Revised: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Flores R, Navarro B, Kovalskaya N, Hammond RW, Di Serio F. Engineering resistance against viroids. Curr Opin Virol 2017; 26:1-7. [PMID: 28738223 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2017.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Viroids, the smallest infectious agents endowed with autonomous replication, are tiny single-stranded circular RNAs (∼250 to 400nt) without protein-coding ability that, despite their simplicity, infect and often cause disease in herbaceous and woody plants of economic relevance. To mitigate the resulting losses, several strategies have been developed, the most effective of which include: firstly, search for naturally resistant cultivars and breeding for resistance, secondly, induced resistance by pre-infection with mild strains, thirdly, ribonucleases targeting double-stranded RNAs and catalytic antibodies endowed with intrinsic ribonuclease activity, fourthly, antisense, and sense, RNAs, fifthly, catalytic antisense RNAs derived from hammerhead ribozymes, and sixthly, hairpin RNAs and artificial small RNAs for RNA interference. The mechanisms underpinning these strategies, most of which have been implemented via genetic transformation, together with their present results and future potential, are the subject of this review.
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- Ricardo Flores
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (UPV-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.
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- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, USDA-ARS-BARC, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
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- Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, USDA-ARS-BARC, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
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- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 70126 Bari, Italy
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Carbonell A, Daròs J. Artificial microRNAs and synthetic trans-acting small interfering RNAs interfere with viroid infection. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2017; 18:746-753. [PMID: 28026103 PMCID: PMC6638287 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/17/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs) and synthetic trans-acting small interfering RNAs (syn-tasiRNAs) are two classes of artificial small RNAs (sRNAs) engineered to silence endogenous transcripts as well as viral RNAs in plants. Here, we explore the possibility of using amiRNAs and syn-tasiRNAs to specifically interfere with infections by viroids, small (250-400-nucleotide) non-coding circular RNAs with compact secondary structure infecting a wide range of plant species. The combined use of recent high-throughput methods for artificial sRNA construct generation and the Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd)-Nicotiana benthamiana pathosystem allowed for the simple and time-effective screening of multiple artificial sRNAs targeting sites distributed along PSTVd RNAs of (+) or (-) polarity. The majority of amiRNAs were highly active in agroinfiltrated leaves when co-expressed with an infectious PSTVd transcript, as were syn-tasiRNAs derived from a construct including the five most effective amiRNA sequences. A comparative analysis showed that the effects of the most effective amiRNA and of the syn-tasiRNAs were similar in agroinfiltrated leaves, as well as in upper non-agroinfiltrated leaves in which PSTVd accumulation was significantly delayed. These results suggest that amiRNAs and syn-tasiRNAs can be used effectively to control viroid infections in plants.
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- Alberto Carbonell
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas‐Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)Valencia46022Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas‐Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)Valencia46022Spain
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Dalakouras A, Dadami E, Wassenegger M. Engineering viroid resistance. Viruses 2015; 7:634-46. [PMID: 25674769 PMCID: PMC4353907 DOI: 10.3390/v7020634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 01/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Viroids are non-encapsidated, non-coding, circular, single-stranded RNAs (ssRNAs). They are classified into the families Pospiviroidae and Avsunviroidae, whose members replicate in the nucleus and chloroplast of plant cells, respectively. Viroids have a wide host range, including crop and ornamental plants, and can cause devastating diseases with significant economic losses. Thus, several viroids are world-wide, classified as quarantine pathogens and, hence, there is an urgent need for the development of robust antiviroid strategies. RNA silencing-based technologies seem to be a promising tool in this direction. Here, we review the recent advances concerning the complex interaction of viroids with the host's RNA silencing machinery, evaluate past and present antiviroid approaches, and finally suggest alternative strategies that could potentially be employed in the future in order to achieve transgenic and non-transgenic viroid-free plants.
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- Athanasios Dalakouras
- RLP AgroScience GmbH, AIPlanta-Institute for Plant Research, Neustadt, 67435, Germany.
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH, AIPlanta-Institute for Plant Research, Neustadt, 67435, Germany.
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- RLP AgroScience GmbH, AIPlanta-Institute for Plant Research, Neustadt, Germany and Centre for Organisational Studies (COS) Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany.
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Kovalskaya N, Hammond RW. Molecular biology of viroid-host interactions and disease control strategies. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 228:48-60. [PMID: 25438785 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Revised: 03/26/2014] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Viroids are single-stranded, covalently closed, circular, highly structured noncoding RNAs that cause disease in several economically important crop plants. They replicate autonomously and move systemically in host plants with the aid of the host machinery. In addition to symptomatic infections, viroids also cause latent infections where there is no visual evidence of infection in the host; however, transfer to a susceptible host can result in devastating disease. While there are non-hosts for viroids, no naturally occurring durable resistance has been observed in most host species. Current effective control methods for viroid diseases include detection and eradication, and cultural controls. In addition, heat or cold therapy combined with meristem tip culture has been shown to be effective for elimination of viroids for some viroid-host combinations. An understanding of viroid-host interactions, host susceptibility, and non-host resistance could provide guidance for the design of viroid-resistant plants. Efforts to engineer viroid resistance into host species have been underway for several years, and include the use of antisense RNA, antisense RNA plus ribozymes, a dsRNase, and siRNAs, among others. The results of those efforts and the challenges associated with creating viroid resistant plants are summarized in this review.
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- Natalia Kovalskaya
- USDA ARS BARC Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
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- USDA ARS BARC Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
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Khan E, Liu JH. Plant Biotechnological Approaches for the Production and Commercialization of Transgenic Crops. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2009.10817654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Potatoes are an important crop in Mediterranean countries both for local consumption and for export to other countries, mainly during the winter. Many Mediterranean countries import certified seed potato in addition to their own seed production. The local seeds are mainly used for planting in the autumn and winter, while the imported seed are used for early and late spring plantings. Potato virus Y is the most important virus in Mediterranean countries, present mainly in the autumn plantings. The second important virus is Potato leafroll virus, though in recent years its importance seems to be decreasing. Potato virus X, Potato virus A, Potato virus S, Potato virus M, and the viroid, Potato spindle tuber viroid, were also recorded in several Mediterranean countries. For each virus the main strains, transmission, characterization of the virus particle, its genome organization, detection, and control methods including transgenic approaches will be discussed.
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- Gad Loebenstein
- Department of Virology, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel
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Carbonell A, Flores R, Gago S. Trans-cleaving hammerhead ribozymes with tertiary stabilizing motifs: in vitro and in vivo activity against a structured viroid RNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:2432-44. [PMID: 21097888 PMCID: PMC3064770 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Trans-cleaving hammerheads with discontinuous or extended stem I and with tertiary stabilizing motifs (TSMs) have been tested previously against short RNA substrates in vitro at low Mg(2+) concentration. However, the potential of these ribozymes for targeting longer and structured RNAs in vitro and in vivo has not been examined. Here, we report the in vitro cleavage of short RNAs and of a 464-nt highly structured RNA from potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) by hammerheads with discontinuous and extended formats at submillimolar Mg(2+). Under these conditions, hammerheads derived from eggplant latent viroid and peach latent mosaic viroid (PLMVd) with discontinuous and extended formats, respectively, where the most active. Furthermore, a PLMVd-derived hammerhead with natural TSMs showed activity in vivo against the same long substrate and interfered with systemic PSTVd infection, thus reinforcing the idea that this class of ribozymes has potential to control pathogenic RNA replicons.
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- Alberto Carbonell
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, UPV-CSIC, Campus Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Avenida de los Naranjos, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Prins M, Laimer M, Noris E, Schubert J, Wassenegger M, Tepfer M. Strategies for antiviral resistance in transgenic plants. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2008; 9:73-83. [PMID: 18705886 PMCID: PMC6640351 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00447.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Genetic engineering offers a means of incorporating new virus resistance traits into existing desirable plant cultivars. The initial attempts to create transgenes conferring virus resistance were based on the pathogen-derived resistance concept. The expression of the viral coat protein gene in transgenic plants was shown to induce protective effects similar to classical cross protection, and was therefore distinguished as 'coat-protein-mediated' protection. Since then, a large variety of viral sequences encoding structural and non-structural proteins were shown to confer resistance. Subsequently, non-coding viral RNA was shown to be a potential trigger for virus resistance in transgenic plants, which led to the discovery of a novel innate resistance in plants, RNA silencing. Apart from the majority of pathogen-derived resistance strategies, alternative strategies involving virus-specific antibodies have been successfully applied. In a separate section, efforts to combat viroids in transgenic plants are highlighted. In a final summarizing section, the potential risks involved in the introduction of transgenic crops and the specifics of the approaches used will be discussed.
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- Marcel Prins
- Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 11, 6709 PD, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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During 1970 and 1971, I discovered that a devastating disease of potato plants is not caused by a virus, as had been assumed, but by a new type of subviral pathogen, the viroid. Viroids are so small--one fiftieth of the size of the smallest viruses--that many scientists initially doubted their existence. We now know that viroids cause many damaging diseases of crop plants. Fortunately, new methods that are based on the unique properties of viroids now promise effective control.
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- Theodor O Diener
- University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
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Bussière F, Ledû S, Girard M, Héroux M, Perreault JP, Matton DP. Development of an efficient cis-trans-cis ribozyme cassette to inactivate plant genes. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2003; 1:423-35. [PMID: 17134401 DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-7652.2003.00039.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Inactivation of a targeted gene is one of the main strategies used to understand their precise cellular role. In plants, apart from chemical or physical mutagenesis and random insertions of DNA elements followed by screening for a desired phenotype, the most common strategy to inhibit the expression of a given gene involves RNA silencing. This can be achieved either through antisense suppression, sense over-expression leading to co-suppression, or expression of double-stranded DNA constructs (dsRNA). The use of ribozymes to inhibit gene product accumulation has only been occasionally attempted, mainly because of the more complex genetic engineering procedure involved, although the specificity of ribozymes can be an important factor when targeting close members of a gene family. We report here the development of a new cis-acting ribozyme cassette for the production of RNAs with desired termini. Attention to many details has been brought in order to provide a powerful procedure for plant application. For example, ultrastable GNRA tetraloops were substituted for both loops II and III of cis-acting hammerhead sequences, thereby favouring folding into the catalytically active structure that results in the self-cleavage of all transcripts. We demonstrate the usefulness of this cassette by producing a ribozyme that cleaves in trans, originally embedded in the cis-acting self-cleaving cassette. The activity of the cis-trans-cis construct, was demonstrated both in vitro and in vivo, in transgenic plants with the specific cleavage of an mRNA encoding a 2-oxo-glutarate-dependant dioxygenase predominantly expressed in pistils tissues and in leaves, from the wild potato Solanum chacoense.
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- Frédéric Bussière
- Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, 4101 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, QC, H1X 2B2, Canada
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Akashi H, Miyagishi M, Taira K. Suppression of gene expression by RNA interference in cultured plant cells. ANTISENSE & NUCLEIC ACID DRUG DEVELOPMENT 2001; 11:359-67. [PMID: 11838637 DOI: 10.1089/108729001753411326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Suppression by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) of the expression of a target gene is known as RNA interference (RNAi). No quantitative analysis of the effects of RNAi on the expression of specific genes in cultured plant cells has been reported. However, as it is possible to produce populations of cultured plant cells that are uniform and divide synchronously for functional analysis of genes of interest, we performed a quantitative study of the effects of RNAi in such cells. We constructed dsRNA expression plasmids for a luciferase gene under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter by simply connecting sense and antisense sequences in a head-to-head manner. An RNAi effect was observed 24 hours after the introduction of dsRNA expression plasmids into tobacco BY-2 cells by electroporation. The simple system for suppression of specific genes in plant cells should be useful in attempts to elucidate the roles of individual genes in plant cells.
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- H Akashi
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Japan
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Bruenn J. Novel methods of introducing pest and disease resistance to crop plants. GENETIC ENGINEERING 2001; 22:11-22. [PMID: 11501373 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4199-8_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- J Bruenn
- Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY/Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
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Zhang L, French R, Langenberg WG, Mitra A. Accumulation of barley stripe mosaic virus is significantly reduced in transgenic wheat plants expressing a bacterial ribonuclease. Transgenic Res 2001; 10:13-9. [PMID: 11252379 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008931706679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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An rnc70 gene encoding a mutant bacterial ribonuclease III (RNase III) was introduced into wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Bobwhite) by microprojectile bombardment. T1, T2, and T3 plants regenerated from three transgenic callus lines were challenged with barley stripe mosaic virus. Plants expressing RNase III exhibited a high level of resistance to the virus infection. This resistance was evidenced by the absence of virus symptoms and reduced accumulation of virions in these plants. The result demonstrates that this pathogen-targeted resistance strategy can be effectively employed in conferring resistance to viral diseases of cereal crops.
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- L Zhang
- Department of Plant Pathology and Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0722, USA
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Solomon-Blackburn RM, Barker H. Breeding virus resistant potatoes (Solanum tuberosum): a review of traditional and molecular approaches. Heredity (Edinb) 2001; 86:17-35. [PMID: 11298812 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00799.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Tetraploid cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the World's fourth most important crop and has been subjected to much breeding effort, including the incorporation of resistance to viruses. Several new approaches, ideas and technologies have emerged recently that could affect the future direction of virus resistance breeding. Thus, there are new opportunities to harness molecular techniques in the form of linked molecular markers to speed up and simplify selection of host resistance genes. The practical application of pathogen-derived transgenic resistance has arrived with the first release of GM potatoes engineered for virus resistance in the USA. Recently, a cloned host virus resistance gene from potato has been shown to be effective when inserted into a potato cultivar lacking the gene. These and other developments offer great opportunities for improving virus resistance, and it is timely to consider these advances and consider the future direction of resistance breeding in potato. We review the sources of available resistance, conventional breeding methods, marker-assisted selection, somaclonal variation, pathogen-derived and other transgenic resistance, and transformation with cloned host genes. The relative merits of the different methods are discussed, and the likely direction of future developments is considered.
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Liu B, Tabler M, Tsagris M. Episomal expression of a hammerhead ribozyme directed against plum pox virus. Virus Res 2000; 68:15-23. [PMID: 10930659 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(00)00145-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Two related antisense RNAs directed against plum pox virus (PPV) were expressed episomally in Nicotiana clevelandii by infection with recombinant potato virus X (PVX). One recombinant PVX expressed an ordinary PPV antisense RNA of about 400 nucleotides, while the other expressed a related antisense RNA that carried the catalytic domain of a hammerhead ribozyme. Inoculation with the latter recombinant PVX resulted in the accumulation of ribozyme RNA that was catalytically active when tested in vitro with a PPV substrate RNA. Plants that had been inoculated with recombinant PVX viruses, expressing either PPV-directed antisense or ribozyme sequences or GUS RNA as a control, were challenged with PPV by a sequential second inoculation. In plants that expressed PPV antisense sequences, the appearance of PPV disease symptoms was delayed for 3-5 days. Quantification of PPV 1 week after inoculation showed that the protective effect by the episomally expressed catalytic antisense RNA was stronger than that of the ordinary antisense RNA. However, eventually all plants tested accumulated comparable titers of PPV.
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- B Liu
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, P.O. Box 1527, GR-71110 Heraklion/, Crete, Greece
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Han S, Wu Z, Yang H, Wang R, Yie Y, Xie L, Tien P. Ribozyme-mediated resistance to rice dwarf virus and the transgene silencing in the progeny of transgenic rice plants. Transgenic Res 2000; 9:195-203. [PMID: 11032368 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008904230223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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A hammerhead ribozyme (Rz) with long hybridizing arms targeting the mRNA of rice dwarf virus (RDV) segment 5 and a mutated nonfunctional ribozyme (mRz) were constructed. As predicted, Rz transcribed in vitro cleaved the target mRNA of RDV segment 5 into two fragments of 138 and 238 nucleotides in length. The Rz and mRz genes were each placed under the control of the CaMV 35S promoter and used to transform Japonica rice variety 'Tongling No. 1' via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. A total of 32 independent lines containing Rz or mRz was obtained as demonstrated by Southern blot analysis. Challenge inoculation with RDV viruliferous leafhoppers (Nephotettix cincticeps) showed that T1 plants containing the Rz transgene displayed high resistance or delayed and attenuated viral symptoms. In contrast, transgenic lines expressing mRz showed severe symptoms similar to the control plants transformed with the vector alone. These results suggest that Rz confers RDV resistance in transgenic rice. Genomic DNA PCR analysis confirmed that all of the examined T6 progeny plants contained the Rz transgene. However, accumulation of the Rz transcripts was detectable by RT-PCR only in the plants that were resistant to RDV. This suggested that loss of RDV resistance in progeny plants containing the Rz transgene may result from silencing of the Rz transgene.
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- S Han
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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Rubio T, Borja M, Scholthof HB, Feldstein PA, Morris TJ, Jackson AO. Broad-spectrum protection against tombusviruses elicited by defective interfering RNAs in transgenic plants. J Virol 1999; 73:5070-8. [PMID: 10233970 PMCID: PMC112552 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.6.5070-5078.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/1998] [Accepted: 02/25/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have designed a DNA cassette to transcribe defective interfering (DI) RNAs of tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) and have investigated their potential to protect transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants from tombusvirus infections. To produce RNAs with authentic 5' and 3' termini identical to those of the native B10 DI RNA, the DI RNA sequences were flanked by ribozymes (RzDI). When RzDI RNAs transcribed in vitro were mixed with parental TBSV transcripts and inoculated into protoplasts or plants, they became amplified, reduced the accumulation of the parental RNA, and mediated attenuation of the lethal syndrome characteristic of TBSV infections. Analysis of F1 and F2 RzDI transformants indicated that uninfected plants expressed the DI RNAs in low abundance, but these RNAs were amplified to very high levels during TBSV infection. By two weeks postinoculation with TBSV, all untransformed N. benthamiana plants and transformed negative controls died. Although infection of transgenic RzDI plants initially induced moderate to severe symptoms, these plants subsequently recovered, flowered, and set seed. Plants from the same transgenic lines also exhibited broad-spectrum protection against related tombusviruses but remained susceptible to a distantly related tombus-like virus and to unrelated viruses.
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- T Rubio
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Jenne A, Gmelin W, Raffler N, Famulok M. Zeitaufgelöste Charakterisierung von Ribozymen durch Fluoreszenzresonanzenergie‐Transfer (FRET). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3757(19990503)111:9<1383::aid-ange1383>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Andreas Jenne
- Institut für Biochemie der Universität, Feodor‐Lynen‐Straße 25, D‐81377 München, Fax: (+ 49) 89‐74017‐448
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- Institut für Biochemie der Universität, Feodor‐Lynen‐Straße 25, D‐81377 München, Fax: (+ 49) 89‐74017‐448
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- Institut für Biochemie der Universität, Feodor‐Lynen‐Straße 25, D‐81377 München, Fax: (+ 49) 89‐74017‐448
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- Institut für Biochemie der Universität, Feodor‐Lynen‐Straße 25, D‐81377 München, Fax: (+ 49) 89‐74017‐448
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Vaish NK, Kore AR, Eckstein F. Recent developments in the hammerhead ribozyme field. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:5237-42. [PMID: 9826743 PMCID: PMC148018 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.23.5237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Developments in the hammerhead ribozyme field during the last two years are reviewed here. New results on the specificity of this ribozyme, the mechanism of its action and on the question of metal ion involvement in the cleavage reaction are discussed. To demonstrate the potential of ribozyme technology examples of the application of this ribozyme for the inhibition of gene expression in cell culture, in animals, as well as in plant models are presented. Particular emphasis is given to critical steps in the approach, including RNA site selection, delivery, vector development and cassette construction.
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- N K Vaish
- Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin, Hermann-Rein-Strasse 3, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany
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Ribozymes are being increasingly used for the sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression by the cleavage of mRNAs encoding proteins of interest. However, particular attention must be paid to the following points: the identification of regions on the mRNA accessible to the ribozyme; the delivery of ribozymes to cells by either exogenous or endogenous delivery; colocalization of the ribozyme with the target RNA in the cell; and differentiation between closely related sequences. This field is advancing rapidly, and results obtained with transgenic animals demonstrate the power of this strategy for the inhibition of gene expression.
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- B Bramlage
- Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen, Germany
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