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Kamal H, Zafar MM, Razzaq A, Parvaiz A, Ercisli S, Qiao F, Jiang X. Functional role of geminivirus encoded proteins in the host: Past and present. Biotechnol J 2024; 19:e2300736. [PMID: 38900041 DOI: 10.1002/biot.202300736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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During plant-pathogen interaction, plant exhibits a strong defense system utilizing diverse groups of proteins to suppress the infection and subsequent establishment of the pathogen. However, in response, pathogens trigger an anti-silencing mechanism to overcome the host defense machinery. Among plant viruses, geminiviruses are the second largest virus family with a worldwide distribution and continue to be production constraints to food, feed, and fiber crops. These viruses are spread by a diverse group of insects, predominantly by whiteflies, and are characterized by a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome coding for four to eight proteins that facilitate viral infection. The most effective means to managing these viruses is through an integrated disease management strategy that includes virus-resistant cultivars, vector management, and cultural practices. Dynamic changes in this virus family enable the species to manipulate their genome organization to respond to external changes in the environment. Therefore, the evolutionary nature of geminiviruses leads to new and novel approaches for developing virus-resistant cultivars and it is essential to study molecular ecology and evolution of geminiviruses. This review summarizes the multifunctionality of each geminivirus-encoded protein. These protein-based interactions trigger the abrupt changes in the host methyl cycle and signaling pathways that turn over protein normal production and impair the plant antiviral defense system. Studying these geminivirus interactions localized at cytoplasm-nucleus could reveal a more clear picture of host-pathogen relation. Data collected from this antagonistic relationship among geminivirus, vector, and its host, will provide extensive knowledge on their virulence mode and diversity with climate change.
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- Hira Kamal
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Sanya, China
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, The Women University Multan, Multan, Pakistan
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- Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Sanya, China
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Sanya, China
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Wu J, Zhang Y, Li F, Zhang X, Ye J, Wei T, Li Z, Tao X, Cui F, Wang X, Zhang L, Yan F, Li S, Liu Y, Li D, Zhou X, Li Y. Plant virology in the 21st century in China: Recent advances and future directions. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 66:579-622. [PMID: 37924266 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023]
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Plant viruses are a group of intracellular pathogens that persistently threaten global food security. Significant advances in plant virology have been achieved by Chinese scientists over the last 20 years, including basic research and technologies for preventing and controlling plant viral diseases. Here, we review these milestones and advances, including the identification of new crop-infecting viruses, dissection of pathogenic mechanisms of multiple viruses, examination of multilayered interactions among viruses, their host plants, and virus-transmitting arthropod vectors, and in-depth interrogation of plant-encoded resistance and susceptibility determinants. Notably, various plant virus-based vectors have also been successfully developed for gene function studies and target gene expression in plants. We also recommend future plant virology studies in China.
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- Jianguo Wu
- State Key Laboratory for Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Vector-borne Virus Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Vector-borne Virus Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, The Key Laboratory of Plant Immunity, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Vector-borne Virus Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Xu X, Lou Y, Liang K, Liu J, Wang Z, Chen B, Li W. The P2 nucleic acid binding protein of Sugarcane bacilliform virus is a viral pathogenic factor. PeerJ 2024; 12:e16982. [PMID: 38406282 PMCID: PMC10885806 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024] Open
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Background Saccharum spp. is the primary source of sugar and plays a significant role in global renewable bioenergy. Sugarcane bacilliform virus (SCBV) is one of the most important viruses infecting sugarcane, causing severe yield losses and quality degradation. It is of great significance to reveal the pathogenesis of SCBV and resistance breeding. However, little is known about the viral virulence factors or RNA silencing suppressors and the molecular mechanism of pathogenesis. Methods To systematically investigate the functions of the unknown protein P2 encoded by SCBV ORF2. Phylogenetic analysis was implemented to infer the evolutionary relationship between the P2 of SCBV and other badnaviruses. The precise subcellular localization of P2 was verified in the transient infiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana epidermal mesophyll cells and protoplasts using the Laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM). The post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) RNA silencing suppressor activity of P2 was analyzed, respectively. Furthermore, restriction digestion and RT-qPCR assays were conducted to verify the probable mechanism of P2 on repressing DNA methylation. To explore the pathogenicity of P2, a potato virus X-based viral vector was used to heterologously express SCBV P2 and the consequent H2O2 accumulation was detected by the 3,3'-diaminobenzidine (DAB) staining method. Results Phylogenetic analysis shows that SCBV has no obvious sequence similarity and low genetic relatedness to Badnavirus and Tungrovirus representatives. LSCM studies show that P2 is localized in both the cytoplasm and nucleus. Moreover, P2 is shown to be a suppressor of PTGS and TGS, which can not only repress ssRNA-induced gene silencing but also disrupt the host RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway. In addition, P2 can trigger an oxidative burst and cause typical hypersensitive-like response (HLR) necrosis in systemic leaves of N. benthamiana when expressed by PVX. Overall, our results laid a foundation for deciphering the molecular mechanism of SCBV pathogenesis and made progress for resistance breeding.
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- Xiongbiao Xu
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology, Province and Ministry Co-sponsored Collaborative Innovation Center of Canesugar Industry, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
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Ye X, Ding D, Chen Y, Liu C, Li Z, Lou B, Zhou Y. Identification of RNA silencing suppressor encoded by citrus chlorotic dwarf-associated virus. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1328289. [PMID: 38333582 PMCID: PMC10850569 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1328289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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Introduction Citrus chlorotic dwarf-associated virus (CCDaV) is an economically important citrus virus associated with leaf curling, deformation, and chlorosis found in China. Plants have evolved RNA silencing to defend against viral infections; however, the mechanism by which CCDaV suppresses RNA silencing in citrus remains unknown. Methods Six proteins encoded by CCDaV were ectopically expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana 16c using the pCHF3 vector to identify RNA-silencing suppression activities. Results V2 protein encoded by CCDaV suppressed local RNA silencing and systemic RNA silencing triggered by GFP RNA, but did not impede short-distance movement of the RNA silencing signal in N. benthamiana 16c. GFP fluorescence observations showed that the ability of V2 protein to suppress RNA silencing was weaker than tomato bushy stunt virus P19. Deletion analysis showed that the putative nuclear localization signal (NLS, 25-54 aa) was involved in the RNA silencing suppression activity of V2 protein. Furthermore, V2 protein cannot block dsRNA-triggered RNA silencing. The subcellular localization assay suggested that V2 protein was localized to nucleus of N. benthamiana. Conclusion Overall, the results of this study demonstrate that CCDaV-V2 acts as an activity of silencing suppression. This is the first reported RNA-silencing suppressor encoded by Citlodavirus and will be valuable in revealing the molecular mechanism of CCDaV infection.
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- Xiao Ye
- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City/Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City/Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City/Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Lemon Industry Development Center, Anyue, Sichuan, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City/Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Guangxi Citrus Breeding and Cultivation Research Center of Engineering Technology/Guangxi Academy of Specialty Crops, Guilin, Guangxi, China
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- Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (CHONGQING) Science City/Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Rajabu CA, Dallas MM, Chiunga E, De León L, Ateka EM, Tairo F, Ndunguru J, Ascencio-Ibanez JT, Hanley-Bowdoin L. SEGS-1 a cassava genomic sequence increases the severity of African cassava mosaic virus infection in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1250105. [PMID: 37915512 PMCID: PMC10616593 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1250105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Cassava is a major crop in Sub-Saharan Africa, where it is grown primarily by smallholder farmers. Cassava production is constrained by Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), which is caused by a complex of cassava mosaic begomoviruses (CMBs). A previous study showed that SEGS-1 (sequences enhancing geminivirus symptoms), which occurs in the cassava genome and as episomes during viral infection, enhances CMD symptoms and breaks resistance in cassava. We report here that SEGS-1 also increases viral disease severity in Arabidopsis thaliana plants that are co-inoculated with African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) and SEGS-1 sequences. Viral disease was also enhanced in Arabidopsis plants carrying a SEGS-1 transgene when inoculated with ACMV alone. Unlike cassava, no SEGS-1 episomal DNA was detected in the transgenic Arabidopsis plants during ACMV infection. Studies using Nicotiana tabacum suspension cells showed that co-transfection of SEGS-1 sequences with an ACMV replicon increases viral DNA accumulation in the absence of viral movement. Together, these results demonstrated that SEGS-1 can function in a heterologous host to increase disease severity. Moreover, SEGS-1 is active in a host genomic context, indicating that SEGS-1 episomes are not required for disease enhancement.
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- Cyprian A. Rajabu
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute-Mikocheni, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute-Mikocheni, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
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Zhao S, Gong P, Liu J, Liu H, Lozano-Durán R, Zhou X, Li F. Geminivirus C5 proteins mediate formation of virus complexes at plasmodesmata for viral intercellular movement. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:322-338. [PMID: 37306279 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Movement proteins (MPs) encoded by plant viruses deliver viral genomes to plasmodesmata (PD) to ensure intracellular and intercellular transport. However, how the MPs encoded by monopartite geminiviruses are targeted to PD is obscure. Here, we demonstrate that the C5 protein of tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) anchors to PD during the viral infection following trafficking from the nucleus along microfilaments in Nicotiana benthamiana. C5 could move between cells and partially complement the traffic of a movement-deficient turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) mutant (TuMV-GFP-P3N-PIPO-m1) into adjacent cells. The TYLCV-C5 null mutant (TYLCV-mC5) attenuates viral pathogenicity and decreases viral DNA and protein accumulation, and ectopic overexpression of C5 enhances viral DNA accumulation. Interaction assays between TYLCV-C5 and the other eight viral proteins described in TYLCV reveal that C5 associates with C2 in the nucleus and with V2 in the cytoplasm and at PD. The V2 protein is mainly localized in the nucleus and cytoplasmic granules when expressed alone; in contrast, V2 forms small punctate granules at PD when co-expressed with C5 or in TYLCV-infected cells. The interaction of V2 and C5 also facilitates their nuclear export. Furthermore, C5-mediated PD localization of V2 is conserved in two other geminiviruses. Therefore, this study solves a long-sought-after functional connection between PD and the geminivirus movement and improves our understanding of geminivirus-encoded MPs and their potential cellular and molecular mechanisms.
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- Siwen Zhao
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen D-72076, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
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Sharma S, Sett S, Das T, Prasad A, Prasad M. Recent perspective of non-coding RNAs at the nexus of plant-pathogen interaction. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2023; 201:107852. [PMID: 37356385 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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In natural habitats, plants are exploited by pathogens in biotrophic or necrotrophic ways. Concurrently, plants have evolved their defense systems for rapid perception of pathogenic effectors and begin concerted cellular reprogramming pathways to confine the pathogens at the entry sites. During the reorganization of cellular signaling mechanisms following pathogen attack, non-coding RNAs serves an indispensable role either as a source of resistance or susceptibility. Besides the well-studied functions of non-coding RNAs related to plant development and abiotic stress responses, previous and recent discoveries have established that non-coding RNAs like miRNAs, siRNAs, lncRNAs and phasi-RNAs can fine tune plant defense responses by targeting various signaling pathways. In this review, recapitulation of previous reports associated with non-coding RNAs as a defense responder against virus, bacteria and fungus attacks and insightful discussion will lead us to conceive innovative ideas to fight against approaching threats of resistant breaking pathogens.
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India.
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India.
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- Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India.
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India; Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
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Breves SS, Silva FA, Euclydes NC, Saia TFF, Jean-Baptiste J, Andrade Neto ER, Fontes EPB. Begomovirus-Host Interactions: Viral Proteins Orchestrating Intra and Intercellular Transport of Viral DNA While Suppressing Host Defense Mechanisms. Viruses 2023; 15:1593. [PMID: 37515277 PMCID: PMC10384534 DOI: 10.3390/v15071593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Revised: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Begomoviruses, which belong to the Geminiviridae family, are intracellular parasites transmitted by whiteflies to dicotyledonous plants thatsignificantly damage agronomically relevant crops. These nucleus-replicating DNA viruses move intracellularly from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and then, like other plant viruses, cause disease by spreading systemically throughout the plant. The transport proteins of begomoviruses play a crucial role in recruiting host components for the movement of viral DNA within and between cells, while exhibiting functions that suppress the host's immune defense. Pioneering studies on species of the Begomovirus genus have identified specific viral transport proteins involved in intracellular transport, cell-to-cell movement, and systemic spread. Recent research has primarily focused on viral movement proteins and their interactions with the cellular host transport machinery, which has significantly expanded understanding on viral infection pathways. This review focuses on three components within this context: (i) the role of viral transport proteins, specifically movement proteins (MPs) and nuclear shuttle proteins (NSPs), (ii) their ability to recruit host factors for intra- and intercellular viral movement, and (iii) the suppression of antiviral immunity, with a particular emphasis on bipartite begomoviral movement proteins.
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- Sâmera S Breves
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Bioagro, National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570.000, MG, Brazil
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Liu H, Chang Z, Zhao S, Gong P, Zhang M, Lozano-Durán R, Yan H, Zhou X, Li F. Functional identification of a novel C7 protein of tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Virology 2023; 585:117-126. [PMID: 37331112 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023]
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a monopartite geminivirus, and one of the most devastating plant viruses in the world. TYLCV is traditionally known to encode six viral proteins in bidirectional and partially overlapping open reading frames (ORFs). However, recent studies have shown that TYLCV encodes additional small proteins with specific subcellular localizations and potential virulence functions. Here, a novel protein named C7, encoded by a newly-described ORF in the complementary strand, was identified as part of the TYLCV proteome using mass spectrometry. The C7 protein localized to the nucleus and cytoplasm, both in the absence and presence of the virus. C7 was found to interact with two other TYLCV-encoded proteins: with C2 in the nucleus, and with V2 in the cytoplasm, forming conspicuous granules. Mutation of C7 start codon ATG to ACG to block the translation of C7 delayed the onset of viral infection, and the mutant virus caused milder virus symptoms and less accumulations of viral DNAs and proteins. Using the potato virus X (PVX)-based recombinant vector, we found that ectopic overexpression of C7 resulted in more severe mosaic symptoms and promoted a higher accumulation of PVX-encoded coat protein in the late virus infection stage. In addition, C7 was also found to inhibit GFP-induced RNA silencing moderately. This study demonstrates that the novel C7 protein encoded by TYLCV is a pathogenicity factor and a weak RNA silencing suppressor, and that it plays a critical role during TYLCV infection.
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- He Liu
- College of Plant Protection, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, 071000, China; State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- College of Plant Protection, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, 071000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China; State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China.
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Fiallo-Olivé E, Navas-Castillo J. Begomoviruses: what is the secret(s) of their success? TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 28:715-727. [PMID: 36805143 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 01/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Begomoviruses constitute an extremely successful group of emerging plant viruses transmitted by whiteflies of the Bemisia tabaci complex. Hosts include important vegetable, root, and fiber crops grown in the tropics and subtropics. Factors contributing to the ever-increasing diversity and success of begomoviruses include their predisposition to recombine their genomes, interaction with DNA satellites recruited throughout their evolution, presence of wild plants as a virus reservoir and a source of speciation, and extreme polyphagia and continuous movement of the insect vectors to temperate regions. These features as well as some controversial issues (replication in the insect vector, putative seed transmission, transmission by insects other than B. tabaci, and expansion of the host range to monocotyledonous plants) will be analyzed in this review.
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- Elvira Fiallo-Olivé
- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea 'La Mayora' (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain.
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- Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea 'La Mayora' (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Málaga, Spain
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Zwolinski AM, Brigden A, Rey MEC. Differences in the 3' intergenic region and the V2 protein of two sequence variants of tomato curly stunt virus play an important role in disease pathology in Nicotiana benthamiana. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0286149. [PMID: 37220127 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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Tomato production in South Africa is threatened by the emergence of tomato curly stunt virus (ToCSV), a monopartite Begomovirus transmitted by the whitefly vector Bemisia tabaci (Genn.). We investigated the role of sequence differences present in the 3' intergenic region (IR) and the V2 coding region on the differing infectivity of ToCSV sequence variant isolates V30 and V22 in the model host Nicotiana benthamiana. Using virus mutant chimeras, we determined that the development of the upward leaf roll symptom phenotype is mediated by sequence differences present in the 3' IR containing the TATA-associated composite element. Sequence differences present in the V2 coding region are responsible for modulating disease severity and symptom recovery in V22-infected plants. Serine substitution of V22 V2 Val27 resulted in a significant increase in disease severity with reduced recovery, the first study to demonstrate the importance of this V2 residue in disease development. Two putative ORFs, C5 and C6, were identified using in silico analysis and detection of an RNA transcript spanning their coding region suggests that these ORFs may be transcribed during infection. Additional virus-derived RNA transcripts spanning multiple ORFs and crossing the boundaries of recognised polycistronic transcripts, as well as the origin of replication within the IR, were detected in ToCSV-infected plants providing evidence of bidirectional readthrough transcription. From our results, we conclude that the diverse responses of the model host to ToCSV infection is influenced by select sequence differences and our findings provide several avenues for further investigation into the mechanisms behind these responses to infection.
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- Alexander M Zwolinski
- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Yang X, Luo X, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, OuYang X, Shi X, Lv X, Li F, Zhang S, Liu Y, Zhang D. Tomato chlorosis virus CPm protein is a pathogenicity determinant and suppresses host local RNA silencing induced by single-stranded RNA. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1151747. [PMID: 37056753 PMCID: PMC10086252 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1151747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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IntroductionTomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) is a typical member of the genus Crinivirus, which severely threatens Solanaceae crops worldwide. The CPm protein encoded by ToCV has been reported to be associated with virus transmission by vectors and is involved in RNA silencing suppression, while the mechanisms remain ambiguous.MethodsHere, ToCV CPm was ectopically expressed by a Potato virus X (PVX) vector and infiltrated into Nicotiana benthamiana wild-type and GFP-transgenic16c plants.ResultsThe phylogenetic analysis showed that the CPm proteins encoded by criniviruses were distinctly divergent in amino acid sequences and predicted conserved domains, and the ToCV CPm protein possesses a conserved domain homologous to the TIGR02569 family protein, which does not occur in other criniviruses. Ectopic expression of ToCV CPm using a PVX vector resulted in severe mosaic symptoms followed by a hypersensitive-like response in N. benthamiana. Furthermore, agroinfiltration assays in N. benthamiana wilt type or GFP-transgenic 16c indicated that ToCV CPm protein effectively suppressed local RNA silencing induced by single-stranded but not double-stranded RNA, which probably resulted from the activity of binding double-stranded but not single-stranded RNA by ToCV CPm protein.ConclusionTaken together, the results of this study suggest that the ToCV CPm protein possesses the dual activities of pathogenicity and RNA silencing, which might inhibit host post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS)-mediated resistance and is pivotal in the primary process of ToCV infecting hosts.
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- Xiao Yang
- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Technical Center of Changsha Customs, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
- *Correspondence: Songbai Zhang,
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Yong Liu,
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- Longping Branch, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Pest Management of Horticultural Crop of Hunan Province, Hunan Plant Protection Institute, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Deyong Zhang,
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Zhang J, Ma M, Liu Y, Ismayil A. Plant Defense and Viral Counter-Defense during Plant-Geminivirus Interactions. Viruses 2023; 15:v15020510. [PMID: 36851725 PMCID: PMC9964946 DOI: 10.3390/v15020510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Geminiviruses are the largest family of plant viruses that cause severe diseases and devastating yield losses of economically important crops worldwide. In response to geminivirus infection, plants have evolved ingenious defense mechanisms to diminish or eliminate invading viral pathogens. However, increasing evidence shows that geminiviruses can interfere with plant defense response and create a suitable cell environment by hijacking host plant machinery to achieve successful infections. In this review, we discuss recent findings about plant defense and viral counter-defense during plant-geminivirus interactions.
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- Jianhang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China
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Kumar R, Dasgupta I. Geminiviral C4/AC4 proteins: An emerging component of the viral arsenal against plant defence. Virology 2023; 579:156-168. [PMID: 36693289 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Revised: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Virus infection triggers a plethora of defence reactions in plants to incapacitate the intruder. Viruses, in turn, have added additional functions to their genes so that they acquire capabilities to neutralize the above defence reactions. In plant-infecting viruses, the family Geminiviridae comprises members, majority of whom encode 6-8 genes in their small single-stranded DNA genomes. Of the above genes, one which shows the most variability in its amino acid sequence is the C4/AC4. Recent studies have uncovered evidence, which point towards a wide repertoire of functions performed by C4/AC4 revealing its role as a major player in suppressing plant defence. This review summarizes the various plant defence mechanisms against viruses and highlights how C4/AC4 has evolved to counter most of them.
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- Rohit Kumar
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India.
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Dubey D, Hoyer JS, Duffy S. Limited role of recombination in the global diversification of begomovirus DNA-B proteins. Virus Res 2023; 323:198959. [PMID: 36209920 PMCID: PMC10194223 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.198959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Approximately half of the characterized begomoviruses have bipartite genomes, but the second genomic segment, the DNA-B, is understudied relative to the DNA-A, which is homologous to the entire genome of monopartite begomoviruses. We examined the evolutionary history of the two proteins encoded by the DNA-B, the genes of which make up ∼60% of the DNA-B segment, from all bipartite begomovirus species. Our dataset of 131 movement protein (MP) and nuclear shuttle protein (NSP) sequences confirmed the deep split between Old World (OW) and New World (NW) species, and showed strong support for deep, congruent branches among the OW sequences of the MP and NSP. NW sequences were much less diverse and had poor phylogenetic resolution; over half of nodes in both the NSP and MP NW clades were supported by <50% bootstrap support. This poor resolution hampered our ability to detect incongruent phylogenies between the MP and NSP datasets, and we found no statistical evidence for recombination within our MP and NSP datasets. Finally, we quantified the sequence diversity between the NW and OW proteins, showing that the NW MP has particularly low diversity, suggesting it has been subject to different evolutionary pressures than the NW NSP.
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- Divya Dubey
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
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Zheng L, Fu S, Xie Y, Han Y, Zhou X, Wu J. Discovery and Characterization of a Novel Umbravirus from Paederia scandens Plants Showing Leaf Chlorosis and Yellowing Symptoms. Viruses 2022; 14:v14081821. [PMID: 36016443 PMCID: PMC9414234 DOI: 10.3390/v14081821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Umbraviruses are a special class of plant viruses that do not encode any viral structural proteins. Here, a novel umbravirus that has been tentatively named Paederia scandens chlorosis yellow virus (PSCYV) was discovered through RNA-seq in Paederia scandens plants showing leaf chlorosis and yellowing symptoms. The PSCYV genome is a 4301 nt positive-sense, single strand RNA that contains four open reading frames (ORFs), i.e., ORF1–4, that encode P1–P4 proteins, respectively. Together, ORF1 and ORF2 are predicted to encode an additional protein, RdRp, through a −1 frameshift mechanism. The P3 protein encoded by ORF3 was predicted to be the viral long-distance movement protein. P4 was determined to function as the viral cell-to-cell movement protein (MP) and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) suppressor. Both P1 and RdRp function as weak post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) suppressors of PSCYV. The PVX-expression system indicated that all viral proteins may be symptom determinants of PSCYV. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that PSCYV is evolutionarily related to members of the genus Umbravirus in the family Tombusviridae. Furthermore, a cDNA infectious clone of PSCYV was successfully constructed and used to prove that PSCYV can infect both Paederia scandens and Nicotiana benthamiana plants through mechanical inoculation, causing leaf chlorosis and yellowing symptoms. These findings have broadened our understanding of umbraviruses and their host range.
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- Lianshun Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Sanya 572025, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
- Correspondence: (X.Z.); (J.W.); Tel.: +86-571-88982250 (J.W.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Sanya 572025, China
- Correspondence: (X.Z.); (J.W.); Tel.: +86-571-88982250 (J.W.)
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Wu H, Liu M, Kang B, Liu L, Hong N, Peng B, Gu Q. AC5 protein encoded by squash leaf curl China virus is an RNA silencing suppressor and a virulence determinant. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:980147. [PMID: 36060769 PMCID: PMC9437540 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.980147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Squash leaf curl China virus (SLCCNV) is a bipartite Begomovirus. The function of the protein AC5, which is encoded by SLCCNV, is unknown. Here, we confirmed that the 172-amino acids (aa) long AC5 protein of SLCCNV could suppress single-stranded RNA but not double-stranded RNA-induced post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS). Furthermore, we determined that the C-terminal domain (96–172 aa) of the AC5 protein was responsible for RNA silencing suppressor (RSS) activity via deletion mutant analysis. The AC5 protein can reverse GFP silencing and inhibit systemic silencing of GFP by interfering with the systemic spread of the GFP silencing signal. The SLCCNV AC5 protein was localized to both the nucleus and cytoplasm of Nicotiana benthamiana cells. Furthermore, deletion analysis showed that the putative nuclear localization signal (NLS, 102–155 aa) was crucial for the RNA silencing suppression activity of AC5. In addition, the AC5 protein elicited a hypersensitive response and enhanced potoao virus X (PVX) RNA accumulation in infected N. benthamiana plants. Using the infectious clones of the SLCCNV and SLCCNV-AC5 null mutants, mutational analysis confirmed that knockout of the AC5 gene abolished SLCCNV-induced leaf curl symptoms, showing SLCCNV AC5 is also a virulence determinant.
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- Huijie Wu
- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University/Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- Bin Peng,
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- Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Qinsheng Gu,
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Wang Y, Liu H, Wang Z, Guo Y, Hu T, Zhou X. P25 and P37 proteins encoded by firespike leafroll-associated virus are viral suppressors of RNA silencing. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:964156. [PMID: 36051767 PMCID: PMC9424829 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.964156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Firespike leafroll-associated virus (FLRaV) is a major pathogen associated with firespike (Odontonema tubaeforme) leafroll disease. Phylogenetic analysis showed that FLRaV possesses typical traits of subgroup II members of ampeloviruses, but encodes two additional proteins, P25 and P37. Here, we determined the microfilament localization of P25 protein. Posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) assay showed that both FLRaV P25 and P37 were able to suppress the local and systemic PTGS and FLRaV P25 was capable of suppressing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene silencing triggered by both sense RNA-induced PTGS (S-PTGS) and inverted repeat RNA-induced PTGS (IR-PTGS). In contrast, FLRaV P37 was only able to inhibit the GFP silencing triggered by the S-PTGS but not the IR-PTGS. In the transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) assay, only FLRaV P25 was found to be able to reverse established TGS-mediated silencing of GFP in 16-TGS plants. We also found that FLRaV P25 could aggravate the disease symptom and viral titer of potato virus X in N. benthamiana. These results suggest that FLRaV P25 and P37 may have crucial roles in overcoming host RNA silencing, which provides key insights into our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying FLRaV infection.
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- Yaqin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vector Biology and Pathogen Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Guizhou Academy of Tobacco Science, Guiyang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Tao Hu,
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
- Xueping Zhou,
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Guevara-Rivera EA, Rodríguez-Negrete EA, Aréchiga-Carvajal ET, Leyva-López NE, Méndez-Lozano J. From Metagenomics to Discovery of New Viral Species: Galium Leaf Distortion Virus, a Monopartite Begomovirus Endemic in Mexico. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:843035. [PMID: 35547137 PMCID: PMC9083202 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.843035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Begomoviruses (Family Geminiviridae) are a major group of emerging plant viruses worldwide. The knowledge of begomoviruses is mostly restricted to crop plant systems. Nevertheless, it has been described that non-cultivated plants are important reservoirs and vessels of viral evolution that leads to the emergence of new diseases. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has provided a powerful tool for speeding up the understanding of molecular ecology and epidemiology of plant virome and for discovery of new viral species. In this study, by performing earlier metagenomics library data mining, followed by geminivirus-related signature single plant searching and RCA-based full-length viral genome cloning, and based on phylogenetic analysis, genomes of two isolates of a novel monopartite begomovirus species tentatively named Galium leaf distortion virus (GLDV), which infects non-cultivated endemic plant Galium mexicanum, were identified in Colima, Mexico. Analysis of the genetic structure of both isolates (GLDV-1 and GLDV-2) revealed that the GLDV genome displays a DNA-A-like structure shared with the new world (NW) bipartite begomoviruses. Nonetheless, phylogenetic analysis using representative members of the main begomovirus American clades for tree construction grouped both GLDV isolates in a clade of the monopartite NW begomovirus, Tomato leaf deformation virus (ToLDeV). A comparative analysis of viral replication regulatory elements showed that the GLDV-1 isolate possesses an array and sequence conservation of iterons typical of NW begomovirus infecting the Solanaceae and Fabaceae families. Interestingly, GLDV-2 showed iteron sequences described only in monopartite begomovirus from OW belonging to a sweepovirus clade that infects plants of the Convolvulaceae family. In addition, the rep iteron related-domain (IRD) of both isolates display FRVQ or FRIS amino acid sequences corresponding to NW and sweepobegomovirus clades for GMV-1 and GMV-2, respectively. Finally, the lack of the GLDV DNA-B segment (tested by molecular detection and biological assays using GLDV-1/2 infectious clones) confirmed the monopartite nature of GLDV. This is the first time that a monopartite begomovirus is described in Mexican ecosystems, and “in silico” geometagenomics analysis indicates that it is restricted to a specific region. These data revealed additional complexity in monopartite begomovirus genetics and geographic distribution and highlighted the importance of metagenomic approaches in understanding global virome ecology and evolution.
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- Enrique A Guevara-Rivera
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Biotecnología Agrícola, Guasave, Mexico
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Biotecnología Agrícola, Guasave, Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología-Unidad de Manipulación Genética, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Biotecnología Agrícola, Guasave, Mexico
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- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIIDIR-Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Biotecnología Agrícola, Guasave, Mexico
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Zhao S, Gong P, Ren Y, Liu H, Li H, Li F, Zhou X. The novel C5 protein from tomato yellow leaf curl virus is a virulence factor and suppressor of gene silencing. STRESS BIOLOGY 2022; 2:19. [PMID: 37676365 PMCID: PMC10442036 DOI: 10.1007/s44154-022-00044-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is known to encode 6 canonical viral proteins. Our recent study revealed that TYLCV also encodes some additional small proteins with potential virulence functions. The fifth ORF of TYLCV in the complementary sense, which we name C5, is evolutionarily conserved, but little is known about its expression and function during viral infection. Here, we confirmed the expression of the TYLCV C5 by analyzing the promoter activity of its upstream sequences and by detecting the C5 protein in infected cells by using a specific custom-made antibody. Ectopic expression of C5 using a potato virus X (PVX) vector resulted in severe mosaic symptoms and higher virus accumulation levels followed by a burst of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. C5 was able to effectively suppress local and systemic post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) induced by single-stranded GFP but not double-stranded GFP, and reversed the transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) of GFP. Furthermore, the mutation of C5 in TYLCV inhibited viral replication and the development of disease symptoms in infected plants. Transgenic overexpression of C5 could complement the virulence of a TYLCV infectious clone encoding a dysfunctional C5. Collectively, this study reveals that TYLCV C5 is a pathogenicity determinant and RNA silencing suppressor, hence expanding our knowledge of the functional repertoire of the TYLCV proteome.
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- Siwen Zhao
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
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Li F, Wang A. Transient Expression-Mediated Gene Silencing in Plants and Suppression of Gene Silencing with Viral Suppressors. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2400:33-41. [PMID: 34905188 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1835-6_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) also known as RNA silencing or RNA interference is an evolutionarily conserved innate immunity in eukaryotes that targets the complementary RNA sequences to slice/degrade the target RNA or repress the translation of mRNA. In the past two decades, RNA silencing as an important antiviral mechanism has been studied extensively in plants. Intriguingly, almost every virus encodes at least a viral suppressor of RNA silencing (VSR) to counterattack RNA silencing with many strategies to interfere with different steps of RNA silencing. Therefore, the molecular identification of VSRs and elucidation of their functional mechanisms contribute to a better understanding of host resistance and viral pathogenicity. Here, we describe a protocol for the transient expression-induced gene silencing in 16c GFP transgenic and wild type Nicotiana benthamiana plants, and the suppression of single-stranded GFP and double-stranded GFP induced RNA silencing with a VSR in N. benthamiana plants. This protocol is simple and can serve as a standard for the identification and functional analysis of a VSR.
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- Fangfang Li
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada
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Mastrevirus Rep and RepA Proteins Suppress de novo Transcriptional Gene Silencing. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222111462. [PMID: 34768892 PMCID: PMC8584122 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222111462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) in plants is a defense mechanism against DNA virus infection. The genomes of viruses in the Geminiviridae family encode several TGS suppressors. In this study, we induced de novo TGS against the transgenic GFP gene encoding green fluorescent protein by expressing a hairpin-shaped self-complementary RNA corresponding to the enhancer region of the 35S promoter (hpE35S). In addition, we examined the TGS suppression activity of proteins encoded in the genome of Tobacco yellow dwarf virus (TYDV, genus Mastrevirus). The results show that the replication-associated protein (Rep) and RepA encoded by TYDV have TGS suppressor activity and lead to decreased accumulation of 24-nt siRNAs. These results suggest that Rep and RepA can block the steps before the loading of siRNAs into Argonaute (AGO) proteins. This is the first report of TGS suppressors in the genus Mastrevirus.
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Li P, Su F, Meng Q, Yu H, Wu G, Li M, Qing L. The C5 protein encoded by Ageratum leaf curl Sichuan virus is a virulence factor and contributes to the virus infection. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2021; 22:1149-1158. [PMID: 34219358 PMCID: PMC8359000 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Earlier reports have indicated that begomoviruses encode four proteins (AC1/C1, AC2/C2, AC3/C3, and AC4/C4 proteins) using complementary-sense DNA as the template. In recent years, several reports have shown that some begomoviruses also encode an AC5/C5 protein from the complementary DNA strand, and these AC5/C5 proteins play different roles in virus infections. Here, we provide evidence showing that Ageratum leaf curl Sichuan virus (ALCScV), a monopartite begomovirus, also encodes a C5 protein that is important for disease symptom formation and can affect viral replication. Infection of Nicotiana benthamiana plants with a potato virus X (PVX)-based vector carrying the ALCScV C5 gene resulted in more severe disease symptoms and higher virus accumulation levels. ALCScV C5 protein can be found in the cytoplasm and the nucleus. Furthermore, this protein is also a suppressor of posttranscriptional gene silencing. Mutational analysis showed that knockout of C5 gene expression significantly reduced ALCScV-induced disease symptoms and virus accumulation, while expression of the C5 gene using the PVX-based vector enhanced ALCScV accumulation in coinfected N. benthamiana plants.
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- Pengbai Li
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Disease BiologyCollege of Plant ProtectionSouthwest UniversityChongqingChina
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Ghosh D, M M, Chakraborty S. Impact of viral silencing suppressors on plant viral synergism: a global agro-economic concern. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 105:6301-6313. [PMID: 34423406 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-021-11483-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Plant viruses are known for their devastating impact on global agriculture. These intracellular biotrophic pathogens can infect a wide variety of plant hosts all over the world. The synergistic association of plant viruses makes the situation more alarming. It usually promotes the replication, movement, and transmission of either or both the coexisting synergistic viral partners. Although plants elicit a robust antiviral immune reaction, including gene silencing, to limit these infamous invaders, viruses counter it by encoding viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs). Growing evidence also suggests that VSRs play a driving role in mediating the plant viral synergism. This review briefly discusses the evil impacts of mixed infections, especially synergism, and then comprehensively describes the emerging roles of VSRs in mediating the synergistic association of plant viruses. KEY POINTS: • Synergistic associations of plant viruses have devastating impacts on global agriculture. • Viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) play key roles in driving plant viral synergism.
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- Dibyendu Ghosh
- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Gong P, Tan H, Zhao S, Li H, Liu H, Ma Y, Zhang X, Rong J, Fu X, Lozano-Durán R, Li F, Zhou X. Geminiviruses encode additional small proteins with specific subcellular localizations and virulence function. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4278. [PMID: 34257307 PMCID: PMC8277811 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24617-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Geminiviruses are plant viruses with limited coding capacity. Geminivirus-encoded proteins are traditionally identified by applying a 10-kDa arbitrary threshold; however, it is increasingly clear that small proteins play relevant roles in biological systems, which calls for the reconsideration of this criterion. Here, we show that geminiviral genomes contain additional ORFs. Using tomato yellow leaf curl virus, we demonstrate that some of these small ORFs are expressed during the infection, and that the encoded proteins display specific subcellular localizations. We prove that the largest of these additional ORFs, which we name V3, is required for full viral infection, and that the V3 protein localizes in the Golgi apparatus and functions as an RNA silencing suppressor. These results imply that the repertoire of geminiviral proteins can be expanded, and that getting a comprehensive overview of the molecular plant-geminivirus interactions will require the detailed study of small ORFs so far neglected.
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- Pan Gong
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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Aimone CD, Lavington E, Hoyer JS, Deppong DO, Mickelson-Young L, Jacobson A, Kennedy GG, Carbone I, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Duffy S. Population diversity of cassava mosaic begomoviruses increases over the course of serial vegetative propagation. J Gen Virol 2021; 102:001622. [PMID: 34310272 PMCID: PMC8491896 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) represents a serious threat to cassava, a major root crop for more than 300 million Africans. CMD is caused by single-stranded DNA begomoviruses that evolve rapidly, making it challenging to develop durable disease resistance. In addition to the evolutionary forces of mutation, recombination and reassortment, factors such as climate, agriculture practices and the presence of DNA satellites may impact viral diversity. To gain insight into the factors that alter and shape viral diversity in planta, we used high-throughput sequencing to characterize the accumulation of nucleotide diversity after inoculation of infectious clones corresponding to African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) and East African cassava mosaic Cameroon virus (EACMCV) in the susceptible cassava landrace Kibandameno. We found that vegetative propagation had a significant effect on viral nucleotide diversity, while temperature and a satellite DNA did not have measurable impacts in our study. EACMCV diversity increased linearly with the number of vegetative propagation passages, while ACMV diversity increased for a time and then decreased in later passages. We observed a substitution bias toward C→T and G→A for mutations in the viral genomes consistent with field isolates. Non-coding regions excluding the promoter regions of genes showed the highest levels of nucleotide diversity for each genome component. Changes in the 5' intergenic region of DNA-A resembled the sequence of the cognate DNA-B sequence. The majority of nucleotide changes in coding regions were non-synonymous, most with predicted deleterious effects on protein structure, indicative of relaxed selection pressure over six vegetative passages. Overall, these results underscore the importance of knowing how cropping practices affect viral evolution and disease progression.
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- Catherine D. Aimone
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Center for Integrated Fungal Research, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
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Prasad A, Hari-Gowthem G, Muthamilarasan M, Hussain Z, Yadav PK, Tripathi S, Prasad M. Molecular characterization of SlATG18f in response to Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus infection in tomato and development of a CAPS marker for leaf curl disease tolerance. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2021; 134:1463-1474. [PMID: 33554270 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-021-03783-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Analysis of autophagy-related genes in tomato shows the involvement of SlATG18f in leaf curl disease tolerance and a CAPS marker developed from this gene demonstrates its usefulness in marker-assisted selection. Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process regulating cellular homeostasis and adaptation to different biotic and abiotic stress. Several autophagy-related proteins (ATGs) are reported to be involved in autophagic processes, and considering their importance in regulating growth and stress adaptation, these proteins have been identified and characterized in several plant species. However, there is no information available on the role of autophagy-related proteins regulating the tolerance of tomato to tomato leaf curl disease (ToLCD). Given this, the present genome-wide study identified thirty ATG-encoding genes (SlATG) in tomato, followed by their functional characterization. Expression profiling of the SlATG genes in contrasting tomato cultivars subjected to virus infection showed a 4.5-fold upregulation of SlATG18f in the tolerant cultivar. Further, virus-induced gene silencing of SlATG18f in the tolerant cultivar conferred disease susceptibility, which suggested the role of this gene in Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus tolerance. Comparison of the gene sequence of both tolerant and susceptible cultivars along with the 5' upstream regions identified an SNP (A/T) at -2916 upstream of the start codon. A cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) marker was developed targeting this region, which showed a significant association with the tolerance characteristics in the tomato germplasm (R2 = 0.1787). Altogether, the study identified a potential gene that could be used to develop ToLCNDV tolerant tomato cultivars using transgene-based or marker-assisted breeding-based approaches.
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- Ashish Prasad
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Repository of Tomato Genomics Resources, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India
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- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Teixeira RM, Ferreira MA, Raimundo GAS, Fontes EPB. Geminiviral Triggers and Suppressors of Plant Antiviral Immunity. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9040775. [PMID: 33917649 PMCID: PMC8067988 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9040775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Geminiviruses are circular single-stranded DNA plant viruses encapsidated into geminate virion particles, which infect many crops and vegetables and, hence, represent significant agricultural constraints worldwide. To maintain their broad-range host spectrum and establish productive infection, the geminiviruses must circumvent a potent plant antiviral immune system, which consists of a multilayered perception system represented by RNA interference sensors and effectors, pattern recognition receptors (PRR), and resistance (R) proteins. This recognition system leads to the activation of conserved defense responses that protect plants against different co-existing viral and nonviral pathogens in nature. Furthermore, a specific antiviral cell surface receptor signaling is activated at the onset of geminivirus infection to suppress global translation. This review highlighted these layers of virus perception and host defenses and the mechanisms developed by geminiviruses to overcome the plant antiviral immunity mechanisms.
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Zarreen F, Chakraborty S. Epigenetic regulation of geminivirus pathogenesis: a case of relentless recalibration of defence responses in plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:6890-6906. [PMID: 32869846 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Geminiviruses constitute one of the largest families of plant viruses and they infect many economically important crops. The proteins encoded by the single-stranded DNA genome of these viruses interact with a wide range of host proteins to cause global dysregulation of cellular processes and help establish infection in the host. Geminiviruses have evolved numerous mechanisms to exploit host epigenetic processes to ensure the replication and survival of the viral genome. Here, we review our current knowledge of diverse epigenetic processes that have been implicated in the regulation of geminivirus pathogenesis, including DNA methylation, histone post-transcriptional modification, chromatin remodelling, and nucleosome repositioning. In addition, we discuss the currently limited evidence of host epigenetic defence responses that are aimed at counteracting geminivirus infection, and the potential for exploiting these responses for the generation of resistance against geminiviruses in crop species.
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- Fauzia Zarreen
- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Molecular Virology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Shen W, Hanley-Bowdoin L. SnRK1: a versatile plant protein kinase that limits geminivirus infection. Curr Opin Virol 2020; 47:18-24. [PMID: 33360933 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2020.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Geminiviruses are a family of single-stranded DNA viruses that infect many plant species and cause serious diseases in important crops. The plant protein kinase, SnRK1, has been implicated in host defenses against geminiviruses. Overexpression of SnRK1 makes plants more resistant to geminivirus infection, and knock-down of SnRK1 increases susceptibility to geminivirus infection. GRIK, the SnRK1 activating kinase, is upregulated by geminivirus infection, while the viral C2 protein inhibits the SnRK1 activity. SnRK1 also directly phosphorylates geminivirus proteins to reduce infection. These data suggest that SnRK1 is involved in the co-evolution of plant hosts and geminiviruses.
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- Wei Shen
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Pei S, Dong R, Bao Y, He RL, Yau SST. Classification of genomic components and prediction of genes of Begomovirus based on subsequence natural vector and support vector machine. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9625. [PMID: 32832270 PMCID: PMC7409808 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background Begomoviruses are widely distributed and causing devastating diseases in many crops. According to the number of genomic components, a begomovirus is known as either monopartite or bipartite begomovirus. Both the monopartite and bipartite begomoviruses have the DNA-A component which encodes all essential proteins for virus functions, while the bipartite begomoviruses still contain the DNA-B component. The satellite molecules, known as betasatellites, alphasatellites or deltasatellites, sometimes exist in the begomoviruses. So, the genomic components of begomoviruses are complex and varied. Different genomic components have different gene structures and functions. Classifying the components of begomoviruses is important for studying the virus origin and pathogenic mechanism. Methods We propose a model combining Subsequence Natural Vector (SNV) method with Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm, to classify the genomic components of begomoviruses and predict the genes of begomoviruses. First, the genome sequence is represented as a vector numerically by the SNV method. Then SVM is applied on the datasets to build the classification model. At last, recursive feature elimination (RFE) is used to select essential features of the subsequence natural vectors based on the importance of features. Results In the investigation, DNA-A, DNA-B, and different satellite DNAs are selected to build the model. To evaluate our model, the homology-based method BLAST and two machine learning algorithms Random Forest and Naive Bayes method are used to compare with our model. According to the results, our classification model can classify DNA-A, DNA-B, and different satellites with high accuracy. Especially, we can distinguish whether a DNA-A component is from a monopartite or a bipartite begomovirus. Then, based on the results of classification, we can also predict the genes of different genomic components. According to the selected features, we find that the content of four nucleotides in the second and tenth segments (approximately 150-350 bp and 1,450–1,650 bp) are the most different between DNA-A components of monopartite and bipartite begomoviruses, which may be related to the pre-coat protein (AV2) and the transcriptional activator protein (AC2) genes. Our results advance the understanding of the unique structures of the genomic components of begomoviruses.
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- Shaojun Pei
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- National Genomics Data Center & CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University, Chicago, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Mishra GP, Dikshit HK, S. V. R, Tripathi K, Kumar RR, Aski M, Singh A, Roy A, Priti, Kumari N, Dasgupta U, Kumar A, Praveen S, Nair RM. Yellow Mosaic Disease (YMD) of Mungbean ( Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek): Current Status and Management Opportunities. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:918. [PMID: 32670329 PMCID: PMC7327115 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 03/30/2024]
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Globally, yellow mosaic disease (YMD) remains a major constraint of mungbean production, and management of this deadly disease is still the biggest challenge. Thus, finding ways to manage YMD including development of varieties possessing resistance against mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) and mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) is a research priority for mungbean crop. Characterization of YMD resistance using various advanced molecular and biochemical approaches during plant-virus interactions has unfolded a comprehensive network of pathogen survival, disease severity, and the response of plants to pathogen attack, including mechanisms of YMD resistance in mungbean. The biggest challenge in YMD management is the effective utilization of an array of information gained so far, in an integrated manner for the development of genotypes having durable resistance against yellow mosaic virus (YMV) infection. In this backdrop, this review summarizes the role of various begomoviruses, its genomic components, and vector whiteflies, including cryptic species in the YMD expression. Also, information about the genetics of YMD in both mungbean and blackgram crops is comprehensively presented, as both the species are crossable, and same viral strains are also found affecting these crops. Also, implications of various management strategies including the use of resistance sources, the primary source of inoculums and vector management, wide-hybridization, mutation breeding, marker-assisted selection (MAS), and pathogen-derived resistance (PDR) are thoroughly discussed. Finally, the prospects of employing various powerful emerging tools like translational genomics, and gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 are also highlighted to complete the YMD management perspective in mungbean.
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- Gyan P. Mishra
- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Physiology, Biochemistry and PHT, ICAR-Central Plantation, Kasaragod, India
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- Germplasm Evaluation Division, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Seed Science and Technology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- World Vegetable Center, South Asia, ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India
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Patwa N, Chatterjee C, Basak J. Differential responses of Phaseolus vulgaris cultivars following mungbean yellow mosaic India virus infection. PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 26:817-828. [PMID: 32255942 PMCID: PMC7113345 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-019-00741-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Phaseolus vulgaris, commonly known as French bean is a vital leguminous crop worldwide and India stood 1st rank in dry bean and 4th rank in green bean production worldwide (FAOSTAT 2017). However, this production is severely affected by Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) infection. Hence it is very important to identify MYMIV tolerant P. vulgaris cultivars. MYMIV infection results in the production of reactive oxygen species and plant cells have evolved complex defense mechanisms at different levels to overcome the damage. Our study for the first time focused on the changes at the morphological and biochemical level, as well as on the relative quantification of MYMIV genes in nine cultivars of P. vulgaris after MYMIV infection. Highest growth and the highest accumulation of four antioxidants of cv. 'Anupam' after MYMIV infection, established that cv. 'Anupam' was less affected by MYMIV infection amongst all nine cultivars. Relative quantification studies also correlated well with these results. Additionally, there is a consistent level of photosynthetic pigments content in mock- and MYMIV-treated seedlings of cv. 'Anupam' over early infection period. Combining all the results we conclude that cv. 'Anupam' is a MYMIV tolerant cultivar.
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- Nisha Patwa
- Department of Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati, Siksha Bhavana, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731235 India
- Present Address: Horticultural Insects Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Application Technology Research Unit, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH 44691 USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati, Siksha Bhavana, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731235 India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati, Siksha Bhavana, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731235 India
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Superinfection by PHYVV Alters the Recovery Process in PepGMV-Infected Pepper Plants. Viruses 2020; 12:v12030286. [PMID: 32151060 PMCID: PMC7150747 DOI: 10.3390/v12030286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Geminiviruses are important plant pathogens that affect crops around the world. In some geminivirus-host interactions, infected plants show recovery, a phenomenon characterized by symptom disappearance in newly emerging leaves. In pepper-Pepper golden mosaic virus (PepGMV) interaction, the host recovery process involves a silencing mechanism that includes both post-transcriptional (PTGS) and transcriptional (TGS) gene silencing pathways. Under field conditions, PepGMV is frequently found in mixed infections with Pepper huasteco yellow vein virus (PHYVV), another bipartite begomovirus. Mixed infected plants generally show a synergetic phenomenon and do not present recovery. Little is known about the molecular mechanism of this interaction. In the present study, we explored the effect of superinfection by PHYVV on a PepGMV-infected pepper plant showing recovery. Superinfection with PHYVV led to (a) the appearance of severe symptoms, (b) an increase of the levels of PepGMV DNA accumulation, (c) a decrease of the relative methylation levels of PepGMV DNA, and (d) an increase of chromatin activation marks present in viral minichromosomes. Finally, using heterologous expression and silencing suppression reporter systems, we found that PHYVV REn presents TGS silencing suppressor activity, whereas similar experiments suggest that Rep might be involved in suppressing PTGS.
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Loriato VAP, Martins LGC, Euclydes NC, Reis PAB, Duarte CEM, Fontes EPB. Engineering resistance against geminiviruses: A review of suppressed natural defenses and the use of RNAi and the CRISPR/Cas system. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 292:110410. [PMID: 32005374 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The Geminiviridae family is one of the most successful and largest families of plant viruses that infect a large variety of important dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous crops and cause significant yield losses worldwide. This broad spectrum of host range is only possible because geminiviruses have evolved sophisticated strategies to overcome the arsenal of antiviral defenses in such diverse plant species. In addition, geminiviruses evolve rapidly through recombination and pseudo-recombination to naturally create a great diversity of virus species with divergent genome sequences giving the virus an advantage over the host recognition system. Therefore, it is not surprising that efficient molecular strategies to combat geminivirus infection under open field conditions have not been fully addressed. In this review, we present the anti-geminiviral arsenal of plant defenses, the evolved virulence strategies of geminiviruses to overcome these plant defenses and the most recent strategies that have been engineered for transgenic resistance. Although, the in vitro reactivation of suppressed natural defenses as well as the use of RNAi and CRISPR/Cas systems hold the potential for achieving broad-range resistance and/or immunity, potential drawbacks have been associated with each case.
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- Virgílio A P Loriato
- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil; Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil; Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil; Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil
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- National Institute of Science and Technology in Plant-Pest Interactions, Bioagro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil; Departament of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-000, Brazil.
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Gong YN, Tang RQ, Zhang Y, Peng J, Xian O, Zhang ZH, Zhang SB, Zhang DY, Liu H, Luo XW, Liu Y. The NIa-Protease Protein Encoded by the Pepper Mottle Virus Is a Pathogenicity Determinant and Releases DNA Methylation of Nicotiana benthamiana. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:102. [PMID: 32153517 PMCID: PMC7047827 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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It is well documented that the canonical function of NIa-protease (NIa-Pro) of the potyviruses is responsible for cleaving the viral polyprotein into functional proteins. Although NIa-Pro is vital for the infection cycle of potyviruses, the function of NIa-Pro in the interaction of the potyvirus host is not clear. In this study, NIa-Pro is ectopically expressed from a potato virus X (PVX) vector and infiltrates Nicotiana benthamiana wild type and 16-TGS. The pathogenicity and inhibition of host transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) are characterized. Ectopic expression of NIa-Pro from a PVX vector resulted in severe mosaic symptoms followed by a hypersensitive-like response in N. benthamiana. Furthermore, PepMoV NIa-Pro was able to reverse established TGS of a green fluorescent protein transgene by reducing methylation of promoter sequences in N. benthamiana and possessed the capacity to interfere with the global methylation of N. benthamiana. Taken together, the results of this study likely suggest that PepMoV NIa-Pro is a pathogenicity determinant and a potent suppressor of host TGS and suggest that NIa-Pro may employ novel mechanisms to suppress host antiviral defenses. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a plant RNA virus modulating host TGS in a novel manner by interfering with the establishment of the methylation step of the plant DNA methylation pathway.
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- Yi-Nuo Gong
- Longping Branch, Graduate School of Hunan University, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- Longping Branch, Graduate School of Hunan University, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- Longping Branch, Graduate School of Hunan University, Changsha, China.,Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- Longping Branch, Graduate School of Hunan University, Changsha, China.,Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Center, Beijing, China
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- Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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- Longping Branch, Graduate School of Hunan University, Changsha, China.,Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China
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Walsh H, Vanderschuren H, Taylor S, Rey M. RNA silencing of South African cassava mosaic virus in transgenic cassava expressing AC1/AC4 hp- RNA induces tolerance. BIOTECHNOLOGY REPORTS (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2019; 24:e00383. [PMID: 31763196 PMCID: PMC6864324 DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2019.e00383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cassava mosaic disease (CMD), caused by geminiviruses, is a major hurdle to cassava production. Due to the heterozygous nature of cassava, breeding for virus resistance is difficult, but cassava has been shown to be a good candidate for genetic engineering using RNA interference (RNAi). T This study reports on the ability of a transgene-derived RNA hairpin, homologous to an overlapping region of the SACMV replication associated protein and putative virus suppressor of silencing protein (AC1/AC4), to confer tolerance in the CMD-susceptible model cassava cultivar 60444. Three of the fourteen transgenic lines expressing SACMV AC1/AC4 hairpin-derived siRNAs showed decreased symptoms and viral loads compared to untransformed control plants. Expression of SACMV AC1/AC4 homologous siRNAs showed that this tolerance is most likely associated with post-transcriptional gene silencing of the virus. This is the first report of targeting the overlapping AC1 and AC4 genes of SACMV conferring CMD tolerance in cassava.
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- H.A. Walsh
- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Plant Genetics Laboratory, TERRA Teaching and Research Unit, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgium
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- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Wang C, Wang C, Zou J, Yang Y, Li Z, Zhu S. Epigenetics in the plant-virus interaction. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2019; 38:1031-1038. [PMID: 31065780 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-019-02414-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plants have developed diverse molecular mechanisms to resist viruses. RNA silencing plays a dominant role in antiviral defense. Recent studies have correlated plant antiviral silencing to epigenetic modification in genomic DNA and protein by remodeling the expression levels of coding genes. The plant host methylation level is reprogrammed in response to viral challenge. Genomes of some viruses have been implicated in the epigenetic modification via small RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing and post-transcriptional gene silencing. These mechanisms can be primed prior to a virus attack through methylation changes for antiviral defense. This review highlights the findings concerning the methylation changes in plant-virus interactions and demonstrates a possible direction to improve the understanding of plant host methylation regulation in response to viral infection.
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- Chenguang Wang
- College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, 100176, China
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- College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, 100176, China
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- College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Beijing Academy of Food Sciences, Beijing, 100162, China
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- College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
- Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing, 100176, China.
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Li F, Xu X, Li Z, Wang Y, Zhou X. Identification of Yeast Factors Involved in the Replication of Mungbean Yellow Mosaic India Virus Using Yeast Temperature-Sensitive Mutants. Virol Sin 2019; 35:120-123. [PMID: 31429012 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-019-00154-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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- Fangfang Li
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.,State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China
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RNA-Targeted Antiviral Immunity: More Than Just RNA Silencing. Trends Microbiol 2019; 27:792-805. [PMID: 31213342 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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RNA silencing is a fundamental, evolutionarily conserved mechanism that regulates gene expression in eukaryotes. It also functions as a primary immune defense in microbes, such as viruses in plants. In addition to RNA silencing, RNA decay and RNA quality-control pathways are also two ancestral forms of intrinsic antiviral immunity, and the three RNA-targeted pathways may operate cooperatively for their antiviral function. Plant viruses encode viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) to suppress RNA silencing and facilitate virus infection. In response, plants may activate a counter-counter-defense mechanism to cope with VSR-mediated RNA silencing suppression. In this review, we summarize current knowledge of RNA silencing, RNA decay, and RNA quality control in antiviral defense, and highlight the mechanisms by which viruses compromise RNA-targeted immunity for their infection and survival in plants.
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Ramesh SV, Shivakumar M, Ramteke R, Bhatia VS, Chouhan BS, Goyal S, Singh A, Praveen S, Gill BS, Chand S. Quantification of a legume begomovirus to evaluate soybean genotypes for resistance to yellow mosaic disease. J Virol Methods 2019; 268:24-31. [PMID: 30890330 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus (MYMIV) infecting soybean and other legumes causes yellow mosaic disease (YMD). Evaluation of soybean genotypes for YMD resistance involves field screening at disease hot spots or in a protected environment using infectious clones or viruliferous whiteflies as sources of virus inocula. Development of efficient virus inoculation and quantification protocols to screen soybean genetic stocks against YMD is imperative for breeding resistant varieties. Binary plasmids harbouring complete, tandem dimeric genomic components DNA A and DNA B of MYMIV-soybean isolate were engineered. The infectivity of the clones was demonstrated in soybean genotypes JS335 and UPSM534 that display contrasting YMD resistance. As a follow-up, soybean germplasm lines, breeding lines, and representative cultivars that were initially screened at an YMD hot-spot were then subjected to Agrobacterium-based infection with MYMIV. Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) based copy number analysis of MYMIV genomic components allowed soybean genotypes to be classified into three discrete categories; resistant, moderately resistant and susceptible to the viral infection. Thus, a soybean germplasm disease screening system based on agro-infection and qRT-PCR based quantification of MYMIV was developed to facilitate breeding YMD resistant soybean. The implications of this study for obtaining YMD resistant soybean cultivars are discussed.
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- Shunmugiah V Ramesh
- ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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- ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidhyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Khandwa Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi, India
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- ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidhyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Wang Y, Wu Y, Gong Q, Ismayil A, Yuan Y, Lian B, Jia Q, Han M, Deng H, Hong Y, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Qi Y, Liu Y. Geminiviral V2 Protein Suppresses Transcriptional Gene Silencing through Interaction with AGO4. J Virol 2019; 93:e01675-18. [PMID: 30626668 PMCID: PMC6401443 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01675-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In plants, RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM)-mediated transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) is a natural antiviral defense against geminiviruses. Several geminiviral proteins have been shown to target the enzymes related to the methyl cycle or histone modification; however, it remains largely unknown whether and by which mechanism geminiviruses directly inhibit RdDM-mediated TGS. In this study, we showed that Cotton leaf curl Multan virus (CLCuMuV) V2 directly interacts with Nicotiana benthamiana AGO4 (NbAGO4) and that the L76S mutation in V2 (V2L76S) abolishes such interaction. We further showed that V2, but not V2L76S, can suppresses RdDM and TGS. Silencing of NbAGO4 inhibits TGS, reduces the viral methylation level, and enhances CLCuMuV DNA accumulation. In contrast, the V2L76S substitution mutant attenuates CLCuMuV infection and enhances the viral methylation level. These findings reveal that CLCuMuV V2 contributes to viral infection by interaction with NbAGO4 to suppress RdDM-mediated TGS in plants.IMPORTANCE In plants, the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) pathway is a natural antiviral defense mechanism against geminiviruses. However, how geminiviruses counter RdDM-mediated defense is largely unknown. Our findings reveal that Cotton leaf curl Multan virus V2 contributes to viral infection by interaction with NbAGO4 to suppress RNA-directed DNA methylation-mediated transcriptional gene silencing in plants. Our work provides the first evidence that a geminiviral protein is able to directly target core RdDM components to counter RdDM-mediated TGS antiviral defense in plants, which extends our current understanding of viral counters to host antiviral defense.
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- Yunjing Wang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and the Center of Biomedical Analysis, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and the Center of Biomedical Analysis, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Plant RNA Signaling, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Mubin M, Briddon RW, Mansoor S. The V2 protein encoded by a monopartite begomovirus is a suppressor of both post-transcriptional and transcriptional gene silencing activity. Gene 2019; 686:43-48. [PMID: 30399424 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Papaya leaf curl virus (PaLCuV) is a begomovirus (genus Begomovirus; family Geminiviridae) with a monopartite genome that is usually associated with beta- and alphasatellites in plants. Geminiviruses are DNA viruses with small circular genomes that occur as minichromosomes in the nucleus and are susceptible to post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Transient expression of the PaLCuV V2 (PV2) protein together with the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in Nicotiana benthamiana resulted in enhanced levels of GFP fluorescence and GFP mRNA, indicative of suppression of PTGS. Expression of PV2 from a Potato virus X vector restored GFP expression in N. benthamiana plants harbouring a transcriptionally silenced GFP transgene, indicative of suppression of TGS. The results show that the PV2 protein encoded by PaLCuV has both suppressor of PTGS and TGS activity and is an important factor in overcoming host RNA-silencing based defenses.
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- Muhammad Mubin
- Virology Lab, Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Li F, Xu X, Yang X, Li Z, Zhou X. Identification of a cis-Acting Element Derived from Tomato Leaf Curl Yunnan Virus that Mediates the Replication of a Deficient Yeast Plasmid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Viruses 2018; 10:v10100536. [PMID: 30274361 PMCID: PMC6213642 DOI: 10.3390/v10100536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 09/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Geminiviruses are a group of small single-stranded DNA viruses that replicate in the host cell nucleus. It has been reported that the viral replication initiator protein (Rep) and the conserved common region (CR) are required for rolling circle replication (RCR)-dependent geminivirus replication, but the detailed mechanisms of geminivirus replication are still obscure owing to a lack of a eukaryotic model system. In this study, we constructed a bacterial–yeast shuttle plasmid with the autonomous replication sequence (ARS) deleted, which failed to replicate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells and could not survive in selective media either. Tandemly repeated copies of 10 geminivirus genomic DNAs were inserted into this deficient plasmid to test whether they were able to replace the ARS to execute genomic DNA replication in yeast cells. We found that yeast cells consisting of the recombinant plasmid with 1.9 tandemly repeated copies of tomato leaf curl Yunnan virus isolate Y194 (TLCYnV-Y194, hereafter referred to as Y194) can replicate well and survive in selective plates. Furthermore, we showed that the recombinant plasmid harboring the Y194 genome with the mutation of the viral Rep or CR was still able to replicate in yeast cells, indicating the existence of a non-canonic RCR model. By a series of mutations, we mapped a short fragment of 174 nucleotides (nts) between the V1 and C3 open reading frames (ORFs), including an ARS-like element that can substitute the function of the ARS responsible for stable replication of extrachromosomal DNAs in yeast. The results of this study established a geminivirus replication system in yeast cells and revealed that Y194 consisting of an ARS-like element was able to support the replication a bacterial–yeast shuttle plasmid in yeast cells.
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- Fangfang Li
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pest, Institute of Plant Protection, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pest, Institute of Plant Protection, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pest, Institute of Plant Protection, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Wang B, Yang X, Wang Y, Xie Y, Zhou X. Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus V2 Interacts with Host Histone Deacetylase 6 To Suppress Methylation-Mediated Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Plants. J Virol 2018; 92:e00036-18. [PMID: 29950418 PMCID: PMC6146709 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00036-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Cytosine DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic silencing mechanism that defends against biotic stresses such as geminivirus infection. As a countermeasure, geminiviruses encode proteins that inhibit methylation and transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). Previous studies showed that V2 protein of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) functions as a TGS suppressor. However, how V2 mediates TGS suppression remains unknown. Here we show that V2 interacts directly with a Nicotiana benthamiana histone deacetylase 6 (NbHDA6), a homolog of Arabidopsis HDA6 (AtHDA6), known to be involved in gene silencing in cooperation with methyltransferase 1 (MET1). NbHDA6 genetically complemented a late-flowering phenotype and restored histone deacetylation of an AtHDA6 mutant. Furthermore, our investigation showed that NbHDA6 displayed histone deacetylase enzymatic activity, which was not inhibited by V2. Genetic analysis revealed that silencing of NbHDA6 expression resulted in enhanced susceptibility to TYLCV infection. In addition, methylation-sensitive PCR and bisulfite sequencing analysis showed that silencing of NbHDA6 expression caused reduced DNA methylation of the viral genome in infected plants. HDA6 was previously shown to recruit and physically interact with MET1 to function in gene silencing. Using competitive pulldown and coimmunoprecipitation assays, we demonstrated that V2 did not interact but competed with NbMET1 for direct binding to NbHDA6. These findings suggest that V2 interacts with host HDA6 and interferes with the recruitment of MET1 by HDA6, resulting in decreased methylation of the viral DNA genome by TGS with a concomitant increase in host susceptibility to TYLCV infection.IMPORTANCE Plants employ repressive viral genome methylation as an epigenetic defense against geminiviruses. In turn, geminiviruses encode proteins that inhibit methylation by TGS. Previous studies showed that TYLCV V2 can efficiently suppress TGS, but the mechanism remains unknown. We showed that V2 interacted with NbHDA6 but did not inhibit its enzymatic activity. As HDA6 is known to be involved in gene silencing in cooperation with MET1, we explored the relationship between V2, NbMET1, and NbHDA6. Our investigation showed that V2 did not interact but competed with NbMET1 for direct binding to NbHDA6. To our knowledge, this is the first report that viral proteins inhibit TGS by interacting with histone deacetylase but not by blocking the methyl cycle. This work provides an additional mechanism for TGS suppression by geminiviruses.
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- Bi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Carluccio AV, Prigigallo MI, Rosas-Diaz T, Lozano-Duran R, Stavolone L. S-acylation mediates Mungbean yellow mosaic virus AC4 localization to the plasma membrane and in turns gene silencing suppression. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007207. [PMID: 30067843 PMCID: PMC6089456 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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RNA silencing plays a critical role in plant resistance against viruses. To counteract host defense, plant viruses encode viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) that interfere with the cellular silencing machinery through various mechanisms not always well understood. We examined the role of Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) AC4 and showed that it is essential for infectivity but not for virus replication. It acts as a determinant of pathogenicity and counteracts virus induced gene silencing by strongly suppressing the systemic phase of silencing whereas it does not interfere with local production of siRNA. We demonstrate the ability of AC4 to bind native 21-25 nt siRNAs in vitro by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. While most of the known VSRs have cytoplasmic localization, we observed that despite its hydrophilic nature and the absence of trans-membrane domain, MYMV AC4 specifically accumulates to the plasma membrane (PM). We show that AC4 binds to PM via S-palmitoylation, a process of post-translational modification regulating membrane-protein interactions, not known for plant viral protein before. When localized to the PM, AC4 strongly suppresses systemic silencing whereas its delocalization impairs VSR activity of the protein. We also show that AC4 interacts with the receptor-like kinase (RLK) BARELY ANY MERISTEM 1 (BAM1), a positive regulator of the cell-to-cell movement of RNAi. The absolute requirement of PM localization for direct silencing suppression activity of AC4 is novel and intriguing. We discuss a possible model of action: palmitoylated AC4 anchors to the PM by means of palmitate to acquire the optimal conformation to bind siRNAs, hinder their systemic movement and hence suppress the spread of the PTGS signal in the plant.
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- Anna Vittoria Carluccio
- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences–John Innes Centre Center of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia
- International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Ismayil A, Haxim Y, Wang Y, Li H, Qian L, Han T, Chen T, Jia Q, Yihao Liu A, Zhu S, Deng H, Gorovits R, Hong Y, Hanley-Bowdoin L, Liu Y. Cotton Leaf Curl Multan virus C4 protein suppresses both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing by interacting with SAM synthetase. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007282. [PMID: 30157283 PMCID: PMC6133388 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Revised: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Gene silencing is a natural antiviral defense mechanism in plants. For effective infection, plant viruses encode viral silencing suppressors to counter this plant antiviral response. The geminivirus-encoded C4 protein has been identified as a gene silencing suppressor, but the underlying mechanism of action has not been characterized. Here, we report that Cotton Leaf Curl Multan virus (CLCuMuV) C4 protein interacts with S-adenosyl methionine synthetase (SAMS), a core enzyme in the methyl cycle, and inhibits SAMS enzymatic activity. By contrast, an R13A mutation in C4 abolished its capacity to interact with SAMS and to suppress SAMS enzymatic activity. Overexpression of wild-type C4, but not mutant C4R13A, suppresses both transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) and post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS). Plants infected with CLCuMuV carrying C4R13A show decreased levels of symptoms and viral DNA accumulation associated with enhanced viral DNA methylation. Furthermore, silencing of NbSAMS2 reduces both TGS and PTGS, but enhanced plant susceptibility to two geminiviruses CLCuMuV and Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus. These data suggest that CLCuMuV C4 suppresses both TGS and PTGS by inhibiting SAMS activity to enhance CLCuMuV infection in plants.
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- Asigul Ismayil
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and the Center of Biomedical Analysis, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and the Center of Biomedical Analysis, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
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- Research Centre for Plant RNA Signaling, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Plant Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Li F, Wang A. RNA decay is an antiviral defense in plants that is counteracted by viral RNA silencing suppressors. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007228. [PMID: 30075014 PMCID: PMC6101400 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Exonuclease-mediated RNA decay in plants is known to be involved primarily in endogenous RNA degradation, and several RNA decay components have been suggested to attenuate RNA silencing possibly through competing for RNA substrates. In this paper, we report that overexpression of key cytoplasmic 5'-3' RNA decay pathway gene-encoded proteins (5'RDGs) such as decapping protein 2 (DCP2) and exoribonuclease 4 (XRN4) in Nicotiana benthamiana fails to suppress sense transgene-induced post-transcriptional gene silencing (S-PTGS). On the contrary, knock-down of these 5'RDGs attenuates S-PTGS and supresses the generation of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). We show that 5'RDGs degrade transgene transcripts via the RNA decay pathway when the S-PTGS pathway is disabled. Thus, RNA silencing and RNA decay degrade exogenous gene transcripts in a hierarchical and coordinated manner. Moreover, we present evidence that infection by turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) activates RNA decay and 5'RDGs also negatively regulate TuMV RNA accumulation. We reveal that RNA silencing and RNA decay can mediate degradation of TuMV RNA in the same way that they target transgene transcripts. Furthermore, we demonstrate that VPg and HC-Pro, the two known viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) of potyviruses, bind to DCP2 and XRN4, respectively, and the interactions compromise their antiviral function. Taken together, our data highlight the overlapping function of the RNA silencing and RNA decay pathways in plants, as evidenced by their hierarchical and concerted actions against exogenous and viral RNA, and VSRs not only counteract RNA silencing but also subvert RNA decay to promote viral infection.
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- Fangfang Li
- London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada
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- London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada
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Feng M, Zuo D, Jiang X, Li S, Chen J, Jiang L, Zhou X, Jiang T. Identification of Strawberry vein banding virus encoded P6 as an RNA silencing suppressor. Virology 2018; 520:103-110. [PMID: 29843054 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RNA silencing is a common mechanism that plays a key role in antiviral defense. To overcome host defense responses, plant viruses encode silencing-suppressor proteins to target one or several key steps in the silencing machinery. Here, we report that the P6 protein encoded by Strawberry vein banding virus (SVBV) is an RNA silencing suppressor through Agrobacterium-mediated co-infiltration assays. SVBV P6 protein can suppress green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene silencing induced by single-stranded RNA but not by double-stranded RNA. The P6 protein can also inhibit systemic silencing of GFP through interfering the systemic spread of GFP silencing signal. Subcellular localization study indicated that P6 protein formed irregular bodies and distributed in both cytoplasm and nucleus of Nicotiana benthamiana cells. Furthermore, deletion analysis indicated that a nuclear localization signal (NLS, aa 402-426) in the P6 protein is responsible for the silencing suppression efficiency. In addition, expression of the P6 protein via a Potato virus X (PVX)-based vectors induced more severe mosaic symptoms in N. benthamiana leaves, and transgenic N. benthamiana plants expressing P6 showed obvious vein yellowing as well as severe mosaic symptoms in leaves. Taken together, our results demonstrates that SVBV P6 is a suppressor of RNA silencing, possibly acting at a upstream step for dsRNA generation.
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- Mingfeng Feng
- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, People's Republic of China
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- School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, People's Republic of China.
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