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Verdier M, Chesnais Q, Pirolles E, Blanc S, Drucker M. The cauliflower mosaic virus transmission helper protein P2 modifies directly the probing behavior of the aphid vector Myzus persicae to facilitate transmission. PLoS Pathog 2023; 19:e1011161. [PMID: 36745680 PMCID: PMC9934384 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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There is growing evidence that plant viruses manipulate their hosts and vectors in ways that increase transmission. However, to date only few viral components underlying these phenomena have been identified. Here we show that cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) protein P2 modifies the feeding behavior of its aphid vector. P2 is necessary for CaMV transmission because it mediates binding of virus particles to the aphid mouthparts. We compared aphid feeding behavior on plants infected with the wild-type CaMV strain Cabb B-JI or with a deletion mutant strain, Cabb B-JIΔP2, which does not produce P2. Only aphids probing Cabb B-JI infected plants doubled the number of test punctures during the first contact with the plant, indicating a role of P2. Membrane feeding assays with purified P2 and virus particles confirmed that these viral products alone are sufficient to cause the changes in aphid probing. The behavior modifications were not observed on plants infected with a CaMV mutant expressing P2Rev5, unable to bind to the mouthparts. These results are in favor of a virus manipulation, where attachment of P2 to a specific region in the aphid stylets-the acrostyle-exercises a direct effect on vector behavior at a crucial moment, the first vector contact with the infected plant, which is essential for virus acquisition.
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- Maxime Verdier
- SVQV UMR 1131 INRAE Centre Grand Est–Colmar, Université Strasbourg, Colmar, France
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- SVQV UMR 1131 INRAE Centre Grand Est–Colmar, Université Strasbourg, Colmar, France,* E-mail: (QC); (MD)
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- PHIM, INRAE Centre Occitanie–Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, Université Montpellier, Institut Agro, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
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- PHIM, INRAE Centre Occitanie–Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, Université Montpellier, Institut Agro, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
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- SVQV UMR 1131 INRAE Centre Grand Est–Colmar, Université Strasbourg, Colmar, France,* E-mail: (QC); (MD)
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Maachi A, Hernando Y, Aranda MA, Donaire L. Complete genome sequence of malva-associated soymovirus 1: a novel virus infecting common mallow. Virus Genes 2022; 58:372-375. [PMID: 35471489 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-022-01900-0] [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] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In this work, a novel viral genomic sequence with a gene organization typical of members of the genus Soymovirus was identified using high-throughput sequencing data from common mallow. This species is a vigorous wild weed native to the Mediterranean region, commonly found in borders and edges of cultivated fields, making it a suitable reservoir for plant pests and pathogens. Indeed, plant viruses belonging to different genera have been previously found infecting common malva. This new viral genome consists of a single molecule of circular double-stranded DNA of 8391 base pairs and contains eight open reading frames encoding polymerase, movement, coat, translational transactivator protein typical of caulimoviruses, and four hypothetical proteins. Phylogenetic and pairwise distance analyses showed its close relationship with soybean chlorotic mottle virus. Interestingly, a small intergenic region was detected between ORFs Ib and II. Based on the demarcation criteria of the genus Soymovirus, the new virus, provisionally named malva-associated soymovirus 1, could be a member of a new species Soymovirus masolus. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a soymovirus infecting common mallow.
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- Ayoub Maachi
- Abiopep S.L., Parque Científico de Murcia, Ctra. de Madrid, Km 388, Complejo de Espinardo, 30100, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
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- Abiopep S.L., Parque Científico de Murcia, Ctra. de Madrid, Km 388, Complejo de Espinardo, 30100, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Stress Biology and Plant Pathology, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS)-CSIC, PO Box 164, 30100, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Stress Biology and Plant Pathology, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS)-CSIC, PO Box 164, 30100, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain.
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Rajarapu SP, Ullman DE, Uzest M, Rotenberg D, Ordaz NA, Whitfield AE. Plant–Virus–Vector Interactions. Virology 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/9781119818526.ch7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Then C, Bak A, Morisset A, Dáder B, Ducousso M, Macia JL, Drucker M. The N-terminus of the cauliflower mosaic virus aphid transmission protein P2 is involved in transmission body formation and microtubule interaction. Virus Res 2021; 297:198356. [PMID: 33667624 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2021.198356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is transmitted by aphids using the non-circulative transmission mode: when the insects feed on infected leaves, virus particles from infected cells attach rapidly to their stylets and are transmitted to a new host when the aphids change plants. Mandatory for CaMV transmission, the viral helper protein P2 mediates as a molecular linker binding of the virus particles to the aphid stylets. P2 is available in infected plant cells in a viral inclusion that is specialized for transmission and named the transmission body (TB). When puncturing an infected leaf cell, the aphid triggers an ultra-rapid viral response, necessary for virus acquisition and called transmission activation: The TB disrupts and P2 is redistributed onto cortical microtubules, together with virus particles that are simultaneously set free from virus factories and join P2 on the microtubules to form the so-called mixed networks (MNs). The MNs are the predominant structure from which CaMV is acquired by aphids. However, the P2 domains involved in microtubule interaction are not known. To identify P2 regions involved in its functions, we generated a set of P2 mutants by alanine scanning and analyzed them in the viral context for their capacity to form a TB, to interact with microtubules and to transmit CaMV. Our results show that contrary to the previously characterized P2-P2 and P2-virion binding sites in its C-terminus, the microtubule binding site is contained in the N-terminal half of P2. Further, this region is important for TB formation since some P2 mutant proteins did not accumulate in TBs but were retained in the viral factories where P2 is translated. Taken together, the N-terminus of P2 is not only involved in vector interaction as previously reported, but also in interaction with microtubules and in formation of TBs.
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- INRAE Centre Occitanie - Montpellier, France
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- INRAE Centre Occitanie - Montpellier, France; INRAE Centre Grand Est - Colmar, France.
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Sharmila DJS, Blessy JJ, Rapheal VS, Subramanian KS. Molecular dynamics investigations for the prediction of molecular interaction of cauliflower mosaic virus transmission helper component protein complex with Myzus persicae stylet's cuticular protein and its docking studies with annosquamosin-A encapsulated in nano-porous Silica. Virusdisease 2019; 30:413-425. [PMID: 31803809 PMCID: PMC6864000 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-019-00549-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Large numbers of bioactive natural products from plant species such as alkaloids, phenolics, terpenoids etc. are remaining unexplored for their potential as plant protective agents as inhibitors for viral and other pathogenic infections of plant. Myzus aphids are important plant pests and vectors for several plant viruses. Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) belongs to the plant virus family Caulimoviridae which is transmitted "non-circulative" from plant to plant through an interaction with aphid insect vectors. This viral transmission process most likely involves a protein-protein binding interaction between aphid stylet receptor cuticular protein and viral proteins namely, CaMV aphid transmission Helper Component protein and virion associated protein. Aphid stylets are made of cuticle and little is known about the structure of cuticle protein of this insect group. The present study reports the molecular modeling of the structures of Myzus persicae aphid stylet's cuticular protein (MpsCP) and cauliflower mosaic virus aphid transmission Helper component protein (CaMV HCP). Protein-protein docking studies and molecular dynamics simulations are performed to establish the mode of binding of MpsCP with CaMV HCP. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics investigations of terpenoids Annosquamosin-A from Annona squamosa complex with CaMV transmitting aphid M. persicae stylet's cuticular protein revealed their means of interaction perhaps relates to restrain viral binding and transmission. QM/MM optimization of mesoporous silica nanopores composite with Annosquamosin-A for smart and safe delivery of bioactive is carried out to study their electronic parameters such as heat of formation, total energy, electronic energy, Ionization potential, Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital, Lowest Un-occupied Molecular Orbital and energy gaps.
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- D. Jeya Sundara Sharmila
- Department of Nano Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641003 India
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- Department of Nano Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641003 India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641049 India
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- Department of Nano Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641003 India
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Webster CG, Pichon E, van Munster M, Monsion B, Deshoux M, Gargani D, Calevro F, Jimenez J, Moreno A, Krenz B, Thompson JR, Perry KL, Fereres A, Blanc S, Uzest M. Identification of Plant Virus Receptor Candidates in the Stylets of Their Aphid Vectors. J Virol 2018; 92:e00432-18. [PMID: 29769332 PMCID: PMC6026765 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00432-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Plant viruses transmitted by insects cause tremendous losses in most important crops around the world. The identification of receptors of plant viruses within their insect vectors is a key challenge to understanding the mechanisms of transmission and offers an avenue for future alternative control strategies to limit viral spread. We here report the identification of two cuticular proteins within aphid mouthparts, and we provide experimental support for the role of one of them in the transmission of a noncirculative virus. These two proteins, named Stylin-01 and Stylin-02, belong to the RR-1 cuticular protein subfamily and are highly conserved among aphid species. Using an immunolabeling approach, they were localized in the maxillary stylets of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum and the green peach aphid Myzus persicae, in the acrostyle, an organ earlier shown to harbor receptors of a noncirculative virus. A peptide motif present at the C termini of both Stylin-01 and Stylin-02 is readily accessible all over the surface of the acrostyle. Competition for in vitro binding to the acrostyle was observed between an antibody targeting this peptide and the helper component protein P2 of Cauliflower mosaic virus Furthermore, silencing the stylin-01 but not stylin-02 gene through RNA interference decreased the efficiency of Cauliflower mosaic virus transmission by Myzus persicae These results identify the first cuticular proteins ever reported within arthropod mouthparts and distinguish Stylin-01 as the best candidate receptor for the aphid transmission of noncirculative plant viruses.IMPORTANCE Most noncirculative plant viruses transmitted by insect vectors bind to their mouthparts. They are acquired and inoculated within seconds when insects hop from plant to plant. The receptors involved remain totally elusive due to a long-standing technical bottleneck in working with insect cuticle. Here we characterize the role of the two first cuticular proteins ever identified in arthropod mouthparts. A domain of these proteins is directly accessible at the surface of the cuticle of the acrostyle, an organ at the tip of aphid stylets. The acrostyle has been shown to bind a plant virus, and we consistently demonstrated that one of the identified proteins is involved in viral transmission. Our findings provide an approach to identify proteins in insect mouthparts and point at an unprecedented gene candidate for a plant virus receptor.
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- Craig G Webster
- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- Université de Lyon, INSA-Lyon, INRA, BF2I, UMR0203, Villeurbanne, France
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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- BGPI, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
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Webster CG, Thillier M, Pirolles E, Cayrol B, Blanc S, Uzest M. Proteomic composition of the acrostyle: Novel approaches to identify cuticular proteins involved in virus-insect interactions. INSECT SCIENCE 2017; 24:990-1002. [PMID: 28421675 PMCID: PMC5724696 DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2016] [Revised: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The acrostyle is a distinct anatomical region present on the cuticle at the inner face of the common food/salivary canal at the tip of aphid maxillary stylets. This conserved structure is of particular interest as it harbors the protein receptors of at least 1 plant virus, Cauliflower mosaic virus, and presumably has other roles in plant-insect interactions. Previously we reported immunolabeling of a highly conserved motif of cuticular proteins from the CPR family (named for the presence of a Rebers and Riddiford consensus) within the acrostyle. Here we report the development of novel tools to further study the proteomic composition of this region and to identify proteins involved in insect-virus interactions. Using a series of antibodies against cuticular proteins from the RR-2 subfamily, we identified additional peptides present within the acrostyle. Our results demonstrated that the acrostyle is a complex structure containing multiple domains of cuticular proteins accessible for interaction. In addition, an array of overlapping peptides, which covers the diversity of the majority of the RR-2 subfamily, was developed as a generic tool to characterize cuticular protein/pathogen interactions. Upon probing this array with Cucumber mosaic virus particles, consensus peptide sequences from hybridizing peptides were identified. Use of these novel tools has extended our knowledge of the proteomic composition of insect maxillary stylets and identified sequences that could be involved in virus binding, thus contributing to further elucidation of the various properties and functions of the acrostyle.
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- Craig Graham Webster
- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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- INRA, UMR 0385 BGPICIRAD‐INRA‐Montpellier SupAgroCampus International de BaillarguetMontpellier CedexFrance
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Bouton C, Geldreich A, Ramel L, Ryabova LA, Dimitrova M, Keller M. Cauliflower mosaic virus Transcriptome Reveals a Complex Alternative Splicing Pattern. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0132665. [PMID: 26162084 PMCID: PMC4498817 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 06/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The plant pararetrovirus Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) uses alternative splicing to generate several isoforms from its polycistronic pregenomic 35S RNA. This pro-cess has been shown to be essential for infectivity. Previous works have identified four splice donor sites and a single splice acceptor site in the 35S RNA 5' region and suggested that the main role of CaMV splicing is to downregulate expression of open reading frames (ORFs) I and II. In this study, we show that alternative splicing is a conserved process among CaMV isolates. In Cabb B-JI and Cabb-S isolates, splicing frequently leads to different fusion between ORFs, particularly between ORF I and II. The corresponding P1P2 fusion proteins expressed in E. coli interact with viral proteins P2 and P3 in vitro. However, they are detected neither during infection nor upon transient expression in planta, which suggests rapid degradation after synthesis and no important biological role in the CaMV infectious cycle. To gain a better understanding of the functional relevance of 35S RNA alternative splicing in CaMV infectivity, we inactivated the previously described splice sites. All the splicing mutants were as pathogenic as the corresponding wild-type isolate. Through RT-PCR-based analysis we demonstrate that CaMV 35S RNA exhibits a complex splicing pattern, as we identify new splice donor and acceptor sites whose selection leads to more than thirteen 35S RNA isoforms in infected turnip plants. Inactivating splice donor or acceptor sites is not lethal for the virus, since disrupted sites are systematically rescued by the activation of cryptic and/or seldom used splice sites. Taken together, our data depict a conserved, complex and flexible process, involving multiple sites, that ensures splicing of 35S RNA.
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- Clément Bouton
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- * E-mail: (MD); (MK)
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- * E-mail: (MD); (MK)
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Hohn T. Plant pararetroviruses: interactions of cauliflower mosaic virus with plants and insects. Curr Opin Virol 2013; 3:629-38. [PMID: 24075119 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2013.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Virion associated protein (VAP) binds to the icosahedral capsid of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) - a plant pararetrovirus. The interactive coiled-coil domains of this protein can interact with the coiled-coils of either the movement protein or the aphid transmission factor, thereby mediating both cell-to-cell movement and aphid transmission. The host counters CaMV infection with two lines of defense: innate immunity and silencing. The viral protein 'transactivator/viroplasmin' (TAV) is recognized as an effector and either initiates the innate immunity reaction in a non-permissive host or interferes with it in a permissive host. As a silencing suppressor, TAV interferes with dicing of dsRNAs.
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- Thomas Hohn
- Basel University, Botanical Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
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Plant viruses have evolved a wide array of strategies to ensure efficient transfer from one host to the next. Any organism feeding on infected plants and traveling between plants can potentially act as a virus transport device. Such organisms, designated vectors, are found among parasitic fungi, root nematodes and plant-feeding arthropods, particularly insects. Due to their extremely specialized feeding behavior - exploring and sampling all plant tissues, from the epidermis to the phloem and xylem - aphids are by far the most important vectors, transmitting nearly 30% of all plant virus species described to date. Several different interaction patterns have evolved between viruses and aphid vectors and, over the past century, a tremendous number of studies have provided details of the underlying mechanisms. This article presents an overview of the different types of virus-aphid relationships, state-of-the-art knowledge of the molecular processes underlying these interactions, and the remaining black boxes waiting to be opened in the near future.
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Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of cauliflower mosaic virus transmission by its insect vector. J Virol 2010; 84:4706-13. [PMID: 20181714 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02662-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is transmitted from plant to plant through a seemingly simple interaction with insect vectors. This process involves an aphid receptor and two viral proteins, P2 and P3. P2 binds to both the aphid receptor and P3, itself tightly associated with the virus particle, with the ensemble forming a transmissible viral complex. Here, we describe the conformations of both unliganded CaMV P3 protein and its virion-associated form. X-ray crystallography revealed that the N-terminal domain of unliganded P3 is a tetrameric parallel coiled coil with a unique organization showing two successive four-stranded subdomains with opposite supercoiling handedness stabilized by a ring of interchain disulfide bridges. A structural model of virus-liganded P3 proteins, folding as an antiparallel coiled-coil network coating the virus surface, was derived from molecular modeling. Our results highlight the structural and biological versatility of this coiled-coil structure and provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms involved in CaMV acquisition and transmission by the insect vector.
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Martinière A, Gargani D, Uzest M, Lautredou N, Blanc S, Drucker M. A role for plant microtubules in the formation of transmission-specific inclusion bodies of Cauliflower mosaic virus. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2009; 58:135-146. [PMID: 19077170 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2008.03768.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Interactions between microtubules and viruses play important roles in viral infection. The best-characterized examples involve transport of animal viruses by microtubules to the nucleus or other intracellular destinations. In plant viruses, most work to date has focused on interaction between viral movement proteins and the cytoskeleton, which is thought to be involved in viral cell-to-cell spread. We show here, in Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV)-infected plant cells, that viral electron-lucent inclusion bodies (ELIBs), whose only known function is vector transmission, require intact microtubules for their efficient formation. The kinetics of the formation of CaMV-related inclusion bodies in transfected protoplasts showed that ELIBs represent newly emerging structures, appearing at late stages of the intracellular viral life cycle. Viral proteins P2 and P3 are first produced in multiple electron-dense inclusion bodies, and are later specifically exported to transiently co-localize with microtubules, before concentrating in a single, massive ELIB in each infected cell. Treatments with cytoskeleton-affecting drugs suggested that P2 and P3 might be actively transported on microtubules, by as yet unknown motors. In addition to providing information on the intracellular life cycle of CaMV, our results show that specific interactions between host cell and virus may be dedicated to a later role in vector transmission. More generally, they indicate a new unexpected function for plant cell microtubules in the virus life cycle, demonstrating that microtubules act not only on immediate intracellular or intra-host phenomena, but also on processes ultimately controlling inter-host transmission.
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- Alexandre Martinière
- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR 385 BGPI CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Khelifa M, Journou S, Krishnan K, Gargani D, Espérandieu P, Blanc S, Drucker M. Electron-lucent inclusion bodies are structures specialized for aphid transmission of cauliflower mosaic virus. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:2872-2880. [PMID: 17872542 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83009-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is transmitted by aphids. For acquisition by the vector, a transmissible complex must form, composed of the virus particle, the viral coat-associated protein P3 and the helper protein P2. However, the components of the transmissible complex are largely separated in infected plant cells: most P3 virions are confined in electron-dense inclusion bodies, whereas P2 is sequestered in electron-lucent inclusion bodies (elIBs). This spatial separation controls virus acquisition by favouring the binding of virus-free P2 to the vector first, rendering the vector competent for later uptake of P3 virions. Consequently, sequential acquisition of virus from different cells or tissues is possible, with important implications for the biology of CaMV transmission. CaMV strains Campbell and CM1841 contain a single amino acid mutation (G94R) in the helper protein P2, rendering them non-transmissible from plant to plant. However, the mutant P2-94 protein supports aphid transmission when expressed heterologously and supplied to P3-CaMV complexes in vitro. The non-transmissibility of P2-94 was re-examined in vivo and it is shown here that the non-transmissibility of this P2 mutant is not due to low accumulation levels in infected plants, as suggested previously, but more specifically to the failure to form elIBs within infected plant cells. This demonstrates that elIBs are complex viral structures specialized for aphid transmission and suggests that viral inclusion bodies other than viral factories, most often considered as 'garbage cans', can in fact exhibit specific functions.
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- Mounia Khelifa
- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Equipe CaGeTE, UMR BGPI Interactions Plantes-Parasites (CIRAD-INRA-SupAgro), Bat. K (TA A 54K), Campus International de Baillarguet, 34 398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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A protein key to plant virus transmission at the tip of the insect vector stylet. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:17959-64. [PMID: 17962414 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0706608104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hundreds of species of plant viruses, many of them economically important, are transmitted by noncirculative vector transmission (acquisition by attachment of virions to vector mouthparts and inoculation by subsequent release), but virus receptors within the vector remain elusive. Here we report evidence for the existence, precise location, and chemical nature of the first receptor for a noncirculative virus, cauliflower mosaic virus, in its insect vector. Electron microscopy revealed virus-like particles in a previously undescribed anatomical zone at the extreme tip of the aphid maxillary stylets. A novel in vitro interaction assay characterized binding of cauliflower mosaic virus protein P2 (which mediates virus-vector interaction) to dissected aphid stylets. A P2-GFP fusion exclusively labeled a tiny cuticular domain located in the bottom-bed of the common food/salivary duct. No binding to stylets of a non-vector species was observed, and a point mutation abolishing P2 transmission activity correlated with impaired stylet binding. The novel receptor appears to be a nonglycosylated protein deeply embedded in the chitin matrix. Insight into such insect receptor molecules will begin to open the major black box of this scientific field and might lead to new strategies to combat viral spread.
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Moreno A, Hébrard E, Uzest M, Blanc S, Fereres A. A single amino acid position in the helper component of cauliflower mosaic virus can change the spectrum of transmitting vector species. J Virol 2005; 79:13587-93. [PMID: 16227279 PMCID: PMC1262581 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.21.13587-13593.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Viruses frequently use insect vectors to effect rapid spread through host populations. In plant viruses, vector transmission is the major mode of transmission, used by nearly 80% of species described to date. Despite the importance of this phenomenon in epidemiology, the specificity of the virus-vector relationship is poorly understood at both the molecular and the evolutionary level, and very limited data are available on the precise viral protein motifs that control specificity. Here, using the aphid-transmitted Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) as a biological model, we confirm that the "noncirculative" mode of transmission dominant in plant viruses (designated "mechanical vector transmission" in animal viruses) involves extremely specific virus-vector recognition, and we identify an amino acid position in the "helper component" (HC) protein of CaMV involved in such recognition. Site-directed mutagenesis revealed that changing the residue at this position can differentially affect transmission rates obtained with various aphid species, thus modifying the spectrum of vector species for CaMV. Most interestingly, in a virus line transmitted by a single vector species, we observed the rapid appearance of a spontaneous mutant specifically losing its transmissibility by another aphid species. Hence, in addition to the first identification of an HC motif directly involved in specific vector recognition, we demonstrate that change of a virus to a different vector species requires only a single mutation and can occur rapidly and spontaneously.
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- Aranzazu Moreno
- UMR Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plantes-Parasites, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier cedex 05, France
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Stavolone L, Villani ME, Leclerc D, Hohn T. A coiled-coil interaction mediates cauliflower mosaic virus cell-to-cell movement. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:6219-24. [PMID: 15837934 PMCID: PMC1087906 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407731102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The function of the virion-associated protein (VAP) of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) has long been only poorly understood. VAP is associated with the virion but is dispensable for virus morphogenesis and replication. It mediates virus transmission by aphids through simultaneous interaction with both the aphid transmission factor and the virion. However, although insect transmission is not fundamental to CaMV survival, VAP is indispensable for spreading the virus infection within the host plant. We used a GST pull-down technique to demonstrate that VAP interacts with the viral movement protein through coiled-coil domains and surface plasmon resonance to measure the interaction kinetics. We mapped the movement protein coiled-coil to the C terminus of the protein and proved that it self-assembles as a trimer. Immunogold labeling/electron microscopy revealed that the VAP and viral movement protein colocalize on CaMV particles within plasmodesmata. These results highlight the multifunctional potential of the VAP protein conferred by its efficient coiled-coil interaction system and show a plant virus possessing a surface-exposed protein (VAP) mediating viral entry into host cells.
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- Livia Stavolone
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, P.O. Box 2543, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland.
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Plisson C, Uzest M, Drucker M, Froissart R, Dumas C, Conway J, Thomas D, Blanc S, Bron P. Structure of the Mature P3-virus Particle Complex of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Revealed by Cryo-electron Microscopy. J Mol Biol 2005; 346:267-77. [PMID: 15663943 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.11.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2004] [Revised: 11/15/2004] [Accepted: 11/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) has an icosahedral capsid composed of the viral protein P4. The viral product P3 is a multifunctional protein closely associated with the virus particle within host cells. The best-characterized function of P3 is its implication in CaMV plant-to-plant transmission by aphid vectors, involving a P3-virion complex. In this transmission process, the viral protein P2 attaches to virion-bound P3, and creates a molecular bridge between the virus and a putative receptor in the aphid's stylets. Recently, the virion-bound P3 has been suggested to participate in cell-to-cell or long-distance movement of CaMV within the host plant. Thus, as new data accumulate, the importance of the P3-virion complex during the virus life-cycle is becoming more and more evident. To provide a first insight into the knowledge of the transmission process of the virus, we determined the 3D structures of native and P3-decorated virions by cryo-electron microscopy and computer image processing. By difference mapping and biochemical analysis, we show that P3 forms a network around the capsomers and we propose a structural model for the binding of P3 to CaMV capsid in which its C terminus is anchored deeply in the inner shell of the virion, while the N-terminal extremity is facing out of the CaMV capsid, forming dimers by coiled-coil interactions. Our results combined with existing data reinforce the hypothesis that this coiled-coil N-terminal region of P3 could coordinate several functions during the virus life-cycle, such as cell-to-cell movement and aphid-transmission.
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- Célia Plisson
- Université Rennes I, UMR 6026 CNRS, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France
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Froissart R, Uzest M, Ruiz-Ferrer V, Drucker M, Hébrard E, Hohn T, Blanc S. Splicing of Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S RNA serves to downregulate a toxic gene product. J Gen Virol 2004; 85:2719-2726. [PMID: 15302965 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80029-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Alternative splicing usually leads to an increase in the number of gene products that can be derived from a single transcript. Here, a different and novel use of alternative splicing – as a means to control the amount of a potentially toxic gene product in the plant pararetrovirus Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) – is reported. About 70 % of the CaMV 35S RNA, which serves as a substrate for both reverse transcription and polycistronic mRNA, is spliced into four additional RNA species. Splicing occurs between four donor sites – one in the 5′ untranslated region and three within open reading frame (ORF) I – and one unique acceptor site at position 1508 in ORF II. A previous study revealed that the acceptor site is vital for CaMV infectivity and expression of ORFs III and IV from one of the spliced RNA species suggested that splicing may facilitate expression of downstream CaMV ORFs. However, it is shown here that deleting the splice acceptor site and replacing ORF II with a cargo ORF that lacks splice acceptor sites does not interfere with virus proliferation. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that whenever P2 cannot accumulate in infected tissues, the splice acceptor site at position 1508 is no longer vital and has little effect on virus replication. This suggests that the vital role of splicing in CaMV is regulation of P2 expression and that P2 exhibits biological properties that, whilst indispensable for virus–vector interactions, can block in planta virus infection if this regulation is abolished.
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- Rémy Froissart
- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Friedrich Miescher Institut, PO Box 2543, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
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- UMR BGPI, CIRAD-INRA-ENSAM, TA 41/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Stavolone L, Ragozzino A, Hohn T. Characterization of Cestrum yellow leaf curling virus: a new member of the family Caulimoviridae. J Gen Virol 2003; 84:3459-3464. [PMID: 14645927 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19405-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cestrum yellow leaf curling virus (CmYLCV) has been characterized as the aetiological agent of the Cestrum parqui mosaic disease. The virus genome was cloned and the clone was proven to be infectious to C. parqui. The presence of typical viroplasms in virus-infected plant tissue and the information obtained from the complete genomic sequence confirmed CmYLCV as a member of the Caulimoviridae family. All characteristic domains conserved in plant pararetroviruses were found in CmYLCV. Its genome is 8253 bp long and contains seven open reading frames (ORFs). Phylogenetic analysis of the relationships with other members of the Caulimoviridae revealed that CmYLCV is closely related to the Soybean chlorotic mottle virus (SbCMV)-like genus and particularly to SbCMV. However, in contrast to the other members of this genus, the primer-binding site is located in the intercistronic region following ORF Ib rather than within this ORF, and an ORF corresponding to ORF VII is missing.
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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Haas M, Bureau M, Geldreich A, Yot P, Keller M. Cauliflower mosaic virus: still in the news. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2002; 3:419-29. [PMID: 20569349 DOI: 10.1046/j.1364-3703.2002.00136.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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SUMMARY Taxonomic relationship: Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is the type member of the Caulimovirus genus in the Caulimoviridae family, which comprises five other genera. CaMV replicates its DNA genome by reverse transcription of a pregenomic RNA and thus belongs to the pararetrovirus supergroup, which includes the Hepadnaviridae family infecting vertebrates. Physical properties: Virions are non-enveloped isometric particles, 53 nm in diameter (Fig. 1). They are constituted by 420 capsid protein subunits organized following T= 7 icosahedral symmetry (Cheng, R.H., Olson, N.H. and Baker, T.S. (1992) Cauliflower mosaic virus: a 420 subunit (T= 7), multilayer structure. Virology, 16, 655-668). The genome consists of a double-stranded circular DNA of approximately 8000 bp that is embedded in the inner surface of the capsid. Viral proteins: The CaMV genome encodes six proteins, a cell-to-cell movement protein (P1), two aphid transmission factors (P2 and P3), the precursor of the capsid proteins (P4), a polyprotein precursor of proteinase, reverse transcriptase and ribonuclease H (P5) and an inclusion body protein/translation transactivator (P6). Hosts: The host range of CaMV is limited to plants of the Cruciferae family, i.e. Brassicae species and Arabidopsis thaliana, but some viral strains can also infect solanaceous plants. In nature, CaMV is transmitted by aphids in a non-circulative manner.
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- Muriel Haas
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Drucker M, Froissart R, Hébrard E, Uzest M, Ravallec M, Espérandieu P, Mani JC, Pugnière M, Roquet F, Fereres A, Blanc S. Intracellular distribution of viral gene products regulates a complex mechanism of cauliflower mosaic virus acquisition by its aphid vector. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:2422-7. [PMID: 11842201 PMCID: PMC122380 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.042587799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Interactions between Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) and its aphid vector are regulated by the viral protein P2, which binds to the aphid stylets, and protein P3, which bridges P2 and virions. By using baculovirus expression of P2 and P3, electron microscopy, surface plasmon resonance, affinity chromatography, and transmission assays, we demonstrate that P3 must be previously bound to virions in order that attachment to P2 will allow aphid transmission of CaMV. We also show that a P2:P3 complex exists in the absence of virions but is nonfunctional in transmission. Hence, unlike P2, P3 and virions cannot be sequentially acquired by the vector. Immunogold labeling revealed the predominance of spatially separated P2:P3 and P3:virion complexes in infected plant cells. This specific distribution indicates that the transmissible complex, P2:P3:virion, does not form primarily in infected plants but in aphids. A model, describing the regulating role of P3 in the formation of the transmissible CaMV complex in planta and during acquisition by aphids, is presented, and its consequences are discussed.
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- Martin Drucker
- Station de Recherches de Pathologie Comparée, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5087 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Université Montpellier II, 30380 Saint-Christol-lez-Alès, France
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