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Leonetti P, Consiglio A, Arendt D, Golbik RP, Rubino L, Gursinsky T, Behrens SE, Pantaleo V. Exogenous and endogenous dsRNAs perceived by plant Dicer-like 4 protein in the RNAi-depleted cellular context. Cell Mol Biol Lett 2023; 28:64. [PMID: 37550627 PMCID: PMC10405411 DOI: 10.1186/s11658-023-00469-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In plants, RNase III Dicer-like proteins (DCLs) act as sensors of dsRNAs and process them into short 21- to 24-nucleotide (nt) (s)RNAs. Plant DCL4 is involved in the biogenesis of either functional endogenous or exogenous (i.e. viral) short interfering (si)RNAs, thus playing crucial antiviral roles. METHODS In this study we expressed plant DCL4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an RNAi-depleted organism, in which we could highlight the role of dicing as neither Argonautes nor RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is present. We have therefore tested the DCL4 functionality in processing exogenous dsRNA-like substrates, such as a replicase-assisted viral replicon defective-interfering RNA and RNA hairpin substrates, or endogenous antisense transcripts. RESULTS DCL4 was shown to be functional in processing dsRNA-like molecules in vitro and in vivo into 21- and 22-nt sRNAs. Conversely, DCL4 did not efficiently process a replicase-assisted viral replicon in vivo, providing evidence that viral RNAs are not accessible to DCL4 in membranes associated in active replication. Worthy of note, in yeast cells expressing DCL4, 21- and 22-nt sRNAs are associated with endogenous loci. CONCLUSIONS We provide new keys to interpret what was studied so far on antiviral DCL4 in the host system. The results all together confirm the role of sense/antisense RNA-based regulation of gene expression, expanding the sense/antisense atlas of S. cerevisiae. The results described herein show that S. cerevisiae can provide insights into the functionality of plant dicers and extend the S. cerevisiae tool to new biotechnological applications.
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- Paola Leonetti
- Department of Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari Unit, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, National Research Council, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Bari Unit, Bari, Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Section Microbial Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Section Microbial Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari Unit, Bari, Italy
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Section Microbial Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Section Microbial Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari Unit, Bari, Italy.
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Rubino L, Guaragnella N, Giannattasio S. Heterologous expression of carnation Italian ringspot virus p36 protein enhances necrotic cell death in response to acetic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mech Ageing Dev 2016; 161:255-261. [PMID: 27637297 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Revised: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A universal feature of the replication of positive-strand RNA viruses is the association with intracellular membranes. Carnation Italian ringspot virus (CIRV) replication in plants occurs in vesicles derived from the mitochondrial outer membrane. The product encoded by CIRV ORF1, p36, is required for targeting the virus replication complex to the outer mitochondrial membrane both in plant and yeast cells. Here the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used as a model host to study the effect of CIRV p36 on cell survival and death. It was shown that p36 does not promote cell death, but decreases cell growth rate. In addition, p36 changed the nature of acetic acid-induced cell death in yeast by increasing the number of cells dying by necrosis with concomitant decrease of the number of cells dying by programmed cell death, as judged by measurements of phosphatidylserine externalization. The tight association of p36 to membranes was not affected by acetic acid treatment, thus confirming the peculiar and independent interaction of CIRV p36 with mitochondria in yeast. This work proved yeast as an invaluable model organism to study both the mitochondrial determinants of the type of cell death in response to stress and the molecular pathogenesis of (+)RNA viruses.
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- Luisa Rubino
- Istituto di Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, CNR, UOS Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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- Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, CNR, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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- Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, CNR, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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Choi AG, Wong J, Marchant D, Luo H. The ubiquitin-proteasome system in positive-strand RNA virus infection. Rev Med Virol 2012; 23:85-96. [PMID: 22782620 PMCID: PMC7169083 DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2012] [Revised: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 06/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Positive-stranded RNA viruses, like many other viruses, have evolved to exploit the host cellular machinery to their own advantage. In eukaryotic cells, the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) that serves as the major intracellular pathway for protein degradation and modification plays a crucial role in the regulation of many fundamental cellular functions. A growing amount of evidence has suggested that the UPS can be utilized by positive-sense RNA viruses. The UPS eliminates excess viral proteins that prevent viral replication and modulates the function of viral proteins through post-translational modification mediated by ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins. This review will discuss the current understanding of how positive RNA viruses have evolved various mechanisms to usurp the host UPS to modulate the function and stability of viral proteins. In addition to the pro-viral function, UPS-mediated viral protein degradation may also constitute a host defense process against some positive-stranded RNA viral infections. This issue will also be discussed in the current review.
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- Alex GoEun Choi
- UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St. Paul's Hospital, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Rubino L, Russo M. A single amino acid substitution in the ORF1 of cymbidium ringspot virus determines the accumulation of two satellite RNAs. Virus Res 2012; 168:84-7. [PMID: 22709553 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2012] [Revised: 06/04/2012] [Accepted: 06/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Tombusviruses may support the replication of satellite (sat) RNAs. In particular, two satRNAs, sat L and Cymsat RNAs, are replicated by carnation Italian ringspot (CIRV) and tomato bushy stunt (TBSV) virus, but not by cymbidium ringspot virus (CymRSV) in vitro transcripts unless they contain a poly(A) tail at the 3' end. Conversely, the replication of both satRNAs was supported by virus particles or viral RNA of the original CymRSV inoculum even in the absence of the poly(A) tail. Sequence and mutational analyses revealed that the full-length infectious CymRSV clone contains one relevant sequence variation in the ORF 1-encoded protein (p33) compared with the original inoculum, i.e. a Ser₁₉ TCC codon instead of a Phe₁₉ TTC codon, which inhibited the replication of sat L and Cymsat RNAs. It is suggested that this amino acid is contained in a domain essential for the replication of some subviral RNAs.
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- Luisa Rubino
- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Unità Organizzativa di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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Camborde L, Planchais S, Tournier V, Jakubiec A, Drugeon G, Lacassagne E, Pflieger S, Chenon M, Jupin I. The ubiquitin-proteasome system regulates the accumulation of Turnip yellow mosaic virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase during viral infection. THE PLANT CELL 2010; 22:3142-52. [PMID: 20823192 PMCID: PMC2965540 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.072090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2009] [Revised: 08/01/2010] [Accepted: 08/22/2010] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Replication of positive-strand RNA viruses, the largest group of plant viruses, is initiated by viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Given its essential function in viral replication, understanding the regulation of RdRp is of great importance. Here, we show that Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) RdRp (termed 66K) is degraded by the proteasome at late time points during viral infection and that the accumulation level of 66K affects viral RNA replication in infected Arabidopsis thaliana cells. We mapped the cis-determinants responsible for 66K degradation within its N-terminal noncatalytic domain, but we conclude that 66K is not a natural N-end rule substrate. Instead, we show that a proposed PEST sequence within 66K functions as a transferable degradation motif. In addition, several Lys residues that constitute target sites for ubiquitylation were mapped; mutation of these Lys residues leads to stabilization of 66K. Altogether, these results demonstrate that TYMV RdRp is a target of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in plant cells and support the idea that proteasomal degradation may constitute yet another fundamental level of regulation of viral replication.
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Hwang YT, McCartney AW, Gidda SK, Mullen RT. Localization of the Carnation Italian ringspot virus replication protein p36 to the mitochondrial outer membrane is mediated by an internal targeting signal and the TOM complex. BMC Cell Biol 2008; 9:54. [PMID: 18811953 PMCID: PMC2573885 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 09/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Carnation Italian ringspot virus (CIRV) is a positive-strand RNA virus that causes massive structural alterations of mitochondria in infected host cells, the most conspicuous being the formation of numerous internal vesicles/spherules that are derived from the mitochondrial outer membrane and serve as the sites for viral RNA replication. While the membrane-bound components of the CIRV replication complex, including a 36-kD RNA-binding protein (p36), are known to be essential for these changes in mitochondrial morphology and are relatively well characterized in terms of their roles in nascent viral RNA synthesis, how these proteins are specifically targeted and inserted into mitochondria is poorly defined. RESULTS Here we report on the molecular signal responsible for sorting p36 to the mitochondrial outer membrane. Using a combination of gain-of-function assays with portions of p36 fused to reporter proteins and domain-swapping assays with p36 and another closely-related viral RNA-binding protein, p33, that sorts specifically to the peroxisomal boundary membrane, we show that the mitochondrial targeting information in p36 resides within its two transmembrane domains (TMDs) and intervening hydrophilic loop sequence. Comprehensive mutational analysis of these regions in p36 revealed that the primary targeting determinants are the moderate hydrophobicity of both TMDs and the positively-charged face of an amphipathic helix within the intervening loop sequence. We show also using bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) that p36 interacts with certain components of the translocase complex in the mitochondrial outer membrane (TOM), but not with the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM). CONCLUSION Our results provide insight to how viruses, such as CIRV, exploit specific host-cell protein sorting pathways to facilitate their replication. The characterization of the targeting and insertion of p36 into the mitochondrial outer membrane also sheds light on the mechanisms involved in sorting of host-cell membrane proteins to mitochondria, a process that has been largely unexplored in plants.
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- Yeen Ting Hwang
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
- JD Irving, Limited, Woodlands Division, 1350 Regent Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3C 2G6, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Jaag HM, Stork J, Nagy PD. Host transcription factor Rpb11p affects tombusvirus replication and recombination via regulating the accumulation of viral replication proteins. Virology 2007; 368:388-404. [PMID: 17689583 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2007] [Revised: 06/07/2007] [Accepted: 07/02/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Previous genome-wide screens identified over 100 host genes whose deletion/down-regulation affected tombusvirus replication and 32 host genes that affected tombusvirus RNA recombination in yeast, a model host for replication of Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV). Down-regulation of several of the identified host genes affected the accumulation levels of p33 and p92(pol) replication proteins, raising the possibility that these host factors could be involved in the regulation of the amount of viral replication proteins and, thus, they are indirectly involved in TBSV replication and recombination. To test this model, we developed a tightly regulated expression system for recombinant p33 and p92(pol) replication proteins in yeast. We demonstrate that high accumulation level of p33 facilitated efficient viral RNA replication, while the effect of p33 level on RNA recombination was less pronounced. On the other hand, high level of p92(pol) accumulation promoted TBSV RNA recombination more efficiently than RNA replication. As predicted, Rpb11p, which is part of the polII complex, affected the accumulation levels of p33 and p92(pol) as well as altered RNA replication and recombination. An in vitro assay with the tombusvirus replicase further supported that Rpb11p affects TBSV replication and recombination only indirectly, via regulating p33 and p92(pol) levels. In contrast, the mechanism by which Rpt4p endopeptidase/ATPase and Mps1p threonine/tyrosine kinase affect TBSV recombination is different from that proposed for Rpb11p. We propose a model that the concentration (molecular crowding) of replication proteins within the viral replicase is a factor affecting viral replication and recombination.
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- Hannah M Jaag
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Plant Science Building, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
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Rubino L, Navarro B, Russo M. Cymbidium ringspot virus defective interfering RNA replication in yeast cells occurs on endoplasmic reticulum-derived membranes in the absence of peroxisomes. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:1634-1642. [PMID: 17412997 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82729-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The replication of Cymbidium ringspot virus (CymRSV) defective interfering (DI) RNA in cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae normally takes place in association with the peroxisomal membrane, thus paralleling the replication events in infected plant cells. However, previous results with a peroxisome-deficient mutant strain of yeast had suggested that the presence of peroxisomes is not a strict requirement for CymRSV DI RNA replication. Thus, a novel approach was used to study the putative alternative sites of replication by using S. cerevisiae strain YPH499 which does not contain normal peroxisomes. In this strain, CymRSV p33 and p92 accumulated over portions of the nuclear membrane and on membranous overgrowths which were identified as endoplasmic reticulum (ER) strands, following immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscope observations. The proteins were not released by high-pH treatment, but were susceptible to proteolytic digestion, thus indicating peripheral and not integrated association. ER-associated p33 and p92 proteins supported in trans the replication of DI RNA. The capacity of plus-strand RNA viruses to replicate in association with different types of cell membranes was thus confirmed.
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- Luisa Rubino
- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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Jonczyk M, Pathak KB, Sharma M, Nagy PD. Exploiting alternative subcellular location for replication: Tombusvirus replication switches to the endoplasmic reticulum in the absence of peroxisomes. Virology 2007; 362:320-30. [PMID: 17292435 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2006] [Revised: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 01/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Plus-strand RNA virus replication takes place on distinct membranous surfaces in infected cells via the assembly of viral replicase complexes involving multiple viral and host proteins. One group of tombusviruses, such as Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), replicate on the surfaces of peroxisomal membranes in plant and yeast cells. Surprisingly, previous genome-wide screen performed in yeast demonstrated that a TBSV replicon RNA replicated as efficiently in yeast defective in peroxisome biogenesis as in the wt yeast (Panavas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2005). To further test how the lack of peroxisomes could affect tombusvirus replication, we used yeast cells missing either PEX3 or PEX19 genes, which are absolutely essential for peroxisome biogenesis. Confocal microscopy-based approach revealed that the wild-type tombusvirus p33 replication protein accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in pex3Delta or pex19Delta yeast, suggesting that tombusvirus replication could take place on the surface of ER membrane. The activities of the isolated tombusvirus replicase preparations from wt, pex3Delta or pex19Delta yeasts were comparable, demonstrating that the assembly of the replicase was as efficient in the ER as in the authentic subcellular environments. The generation/accumulation of tombusvirus recombinants was similar in wt, pex3Delta and pex19Delta yeasts, suggesting that the rate of mistakes occurring during tombusvirus replication is comparable in the presence or absence of peroxisomes. Overall, this work demonstrates that a tombusvirus, relying on the wt replication proteins, can efficiently replicate on an alternative intracellular membrane. This suggests that RNA viruses might have remarkable flexibility for using various host membranes for their replication.
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- Magdalena Jonczyk
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, 201F Plant Science Building, Lexington, KY 40546-0312, USA
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Van Wynsberghe PM, Chen HR, Ahlquist P. Nodavirus RNA replication protein a induces membrane association of genomic RNA. J Virol 2007; 81:4633-44. [PMID: 17301137 PMCID: PMC1900146 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02267-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Positive-strand RNA virus genome replication occurs in membrane-associated RNA replication complexes, whose assembly remains poorly understood. Here we show that prior to RNA replication, the multifunctional, transmembrane RNA replication protein A of the nodavirus flock house virus (FHV) recruits FHV genomic RNA1 to a membrane-associated state in both Drosophila melanogaster and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. Protein A has mitochondrial membrane-targeting, self-interaction, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), and RNA capping domains. In the absence of RdRp activity due to an active site mutation (A(D692E)), protein A stimulated RNA1 accumulation by increasing RNA1 stability. Protein A(D692E) stimulated RNA1 accumulation in wild-type cells and in xrn1(-) yeast defective in decapped RNA decay, showing that increased RNA1 stability was not due to protein A-mediated RNA1 recapping. Increased RNA1 stability was closely linked with protein A-induced membrane association of the stabilized RNA and was highly selective for RNA1. Substantial N- and C-proximal regions of protein A were dispensable for these activities. However, increased RNA1 accumulation was eliminated by deleting protein A amino acids (aa) 1 to 370 but was restored completely by adding back the transmembrane domain (aa 1 to 35) and partially by adding back peripheral membrane association sequences in aa 36 to 370. Moreover, although RNA polymerase activity was not required, even small deletions in or around the RdRp domain abolished increased RNA1 accumulation. These and other results show that prior to negative-strand RNA synthesis, multiple domains of mitochondrially targeted protein A cooperate to selectively recruit FHV genomic RNA to membranes where RNA replication complexes form.
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- Priscilla M Van Wynsberghe
- Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1596, USA
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Alves-Rodrigues I, Galão RP, Meyerhans A, Díez J. Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a useful model host to study fundamental biology of viral replication. Virus Res 2006; 120:49-56. [PMID: 16698107 PMCID: PMC7114155 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2005.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2005] [Revised: 11/16/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Understanding the fundamental steps of virus life cycles including virus–host interactions is essential for the design of effective antiviral strategies. Such understanding has been deferred by the complexity of higher eukaryotic host organisms. To circumvent experimental difficulties associated with this, systems were developed to replicate viruses in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The systems include viruses with RNA and DNA genomes that infect plants, animals and humans. By using the powerful methodologies available for yeast genetic analysis, fundamental processes occurring during virus replication have been brought to light. Here, we review the different viruses able to direct replication and gene expression in yeast and discuss their main contributions in the understanding of virus biology.
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- Isabel Alves-Rodrigues
- Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Navarro B, Russo M, Pantaleo V, Rubino L. Cytological analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells supporting cymbidium ringspot virus defective interfering RNA replication. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:705-714. [PMID: 16476994 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81325-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The replicase proteins p33 and p92 of Cymbidium ringspot virus (CymRSV) were found to support the replication of defective interfering (DI) RNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. Two yeast strains were used, differing in the biogenesis of peroxisomes, the organelles supplying the membranous vesicular environment in which CymRSV RNA replication takes place in infected plant cells. Double-labelled immunofluorescence showed that both p33 and p92 replicase proteins localized to peroxisomes, independently of one another and of the presence of the replication template. It is suggested that these proteins are sorted initially from the cytosol to the endoplasmic reticulum and then to peroxisomes. However, only the expression of p33, but not p92, increased the number of peroxisomes and induced membrane proliferation. DI RNA replication occurred in yeast cells, as demonstrated by the presence of monomers and dimers of positive and negative polarities. Labelling with BrUTP showed that peroxisomes were the sites of nascent viral synthesis, whereas in situ hybridization indicated that DI RNA progeny were diffused throughout the cytoplasm. DI RNA replication also took place in yeast cells devoid of peroxisomes. It is suggested that replication in these cells was targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum.
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- Beatriz Navarro
- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, c/o Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi, Bari, Italy
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Rubino L, Pantaleo V, Navarro B, Russo M. Expression of tombusvirus open reading frames 1 and 2 is sufficient for the replication of defective interfering, but not satellite, RNA. J Gen Virol 2004; 85:3115-3122. [PMID: 15448375 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80296-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Yeast cells co-expressing the replication proteins p36 and p95 of Carnation Italian ringspot virus (CIRV) support the RNA-dependent replication of several defective interfering (DI) RNAs derived from either the genome of CIRV or the related Cymbidium ringspot virus (CymRSV), but not the replication of a satellite RNA (sat RNA) originally associated with CymRSV. DI, but not sat RNA, was replicated in yeast cells co-expressing both DI and sat RNA. Using transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants constitutively expressing CymRSV replicase proteins (p33 and p92), or transiently expressing either these proteins or CIRV p36 and p95, it was shown that expression of replicase proteins alone was also not sufficient for the replication of sat RNA in plant cells. However, it was also shown that replicating CIRV genomic RNA deletion mutants encoding only replicase proteins could sustain replication of sat RNA in plant cells. These results suggest that sat RNA has a replication strategy differing from that of genomic and DI RNAs, for it requires the presence of a cis-replicating genome acting as a trans-replication enhancer.
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- Luisa Rubino
- Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi and Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi and Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi and Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante e Microbiologia Applicata, Università degli Studi and Istituto di Virologia Vegetale del CNR, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
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