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Wang X, Ma J, Jin X, Yue N, Gao P, Mai KKK, Wang XB, Li D, Kang BH, Zhang Y. Three-dimensional reconstruction and comparison of vacuolar membranes in response to viral infection. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 63:353-364. [PMID: 33085164 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The vacuole is a unique plant organelle that plays an important role in maintaining cellular homeostasis under various environmental stress conditions. However, the effects of biotic stress on vacuole structure has not been examined using three-dimensional (3D) visualization. Here, we performed 3D electron tomography to compare the ultrastructural changes in the vacuole during infection with different viruses. The 3D models revealed that vacuoles are remodeled in cells infected with cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) or tobacco necrosis virus A Chinese isolate (TNV-AC ), resulting in the formation of spherules at the periphery of the vacuole. These spherules contain neck-like channels that connect their interior with the cytosol. Confocal microscopy of CMV replication proteins 1a and 2a and TNV-AC auxiliary replication protein p23 showed that all of these proteins localize to the tonoplast. Electron microscopy revealed that the expression of these replication proteins alone is sufficient to induce spherule formation on the tonoplast, suggesting that these proteins play prominent roles in inducing vacuolar membrane remodeling. This is the first report of the 3D structures of viral replication factories built on the tonoplasts. These findings contribute to our understanding of vacuole biogenesis under normal conditions and during assembly of plant (+) RNA virus replication complexes.
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- Xueting Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology 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 of Agro-Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology 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 of Agro-Biotechnology 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 of Agro-Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology 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 of Agro-Biotechnology 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 of Agro-Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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Interaction of the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the sesbania mosaic virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase with the viral protein P10 in vitro: modulation of the oligomeric state and polymerase activity. Arch Virol 2019; 164:971-982. [PMID: 30721364 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04163-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of sesbania mosaic virus (SeMV) was previously shown to interact with the viral protein P10, which led to enhanced polymerase activity. In the present investigation, the equilibrium dissociation constant for the interaction between the two proteins was determined to be 0.09 µM using surface plasmon resonance, and the disordered C-terminal domain of RdRp was shown to be essential for binding to P10. The association with P10 brought about a change in the oligomeric state of RdRp, resulting in reduced aggregation and increased polymerase activity. Interestingly, unlike the wild-type RdRp, C-terminal deletion mutants (C del 43 and C del 72) were found to exist predominantly as monomers and were as active as the RdRp-P10 complex. Thus, either the deletion of the C-terminal disordered domain or its masking by binding to P10 results in the activation of polymerase activity. Further, deletion of the C-terminal 85 residues of RdRp resulted in complete loss of activity. Mutation of a conserved tyrosine (RdRp Y480) within motif E, located between 72 and 85 residues from the C-terminus of RdRp, rendered the protein inactive, demonstrating the importance of motif E in RNA synthesis in vitro.
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Budziszewska M, Obrępalska-Stęplowska A. The Role of the Chloroplast in the Replication of Positive-Sense Single-Stranded Plant RNA Viruses. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1776. [PMID: 30542365 PMCID: PMC6278097 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Positive-sense single-stranded plant RNA viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that infect many agriculturally important crops. Most known plant RNA viruses are characterized by small genomes encoding a limited number of multifunctional viral proteins. Viral pathogens are considered to be absolutely dependent on their hosts, and viruses must recruit numerous host proteins and other factors for genomic RNA replication. Overall, the replication process depends on virus-plant protein-protein, RNA-protein and protein-lipid interactions. Recent publications provide strong evidence for the important role of chloroplasts in viral RNA synthesis. The chloroplast is considered to be a multifunctional organelle responsible for photosynthesis and for the generation of plant defense signaling molecules. High-throughput technologies (genomics and proteomics), and electron microscopy, including three-dimensional tomography, have revealed that several groups of plant RNA viruses utilize chloroplast membranes to assemble viral replication complexes (VRCs). Moreover, some chloroplast-related proteins reportedly interact with both viral proteins and their genomic RNAs and participate in trafficking these molecules to the chloroplast, where replication occurs. Here, we present the current knowledge on the important role of chloroplasts in the viral replication process.
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Kozieł E, Bujarski JJ, Otulak K. Molecular Biology of Prune Dwarf Virus-A Lesser Known Member of the Bromoviridae but a Vital Component in the Dynamic Virus-Host Cell Interaction Network. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:E2733. [PMID: 29258199 PMCID: PMC5751334 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18122733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Prune dwarf virus (PDV) is one of the members of Bromoviridae family, genus Ilarvirus. Host components that participate in the regulation of viral replication or cell-to-cell movement via plasmodesmata are still unknown. In contrast, viral infections caused by some other Bromoviridae members are well characterized. Bromoviridae can be distinguished based on localization of their replication process in infected cells, cell-to-cell movement mechanisms, and plant-specific response reactions. Depending upon the genus, "genome activation" and viral replication are linked to various membranous structures ranging from endoplasmic reticulum, to tonoplast. In the case of PDV, there is still no evidence of natural resistance sources in the host plants susceptible to virus infection. Apparently, PDV has a great ability to overcome the natural defense responses in a wide spectrum of plant hosts. The first manifestations of PDV infection are specific cell membrane alterations, and the formation of replicase complexes that support PDV RNA replication inside the spherules. During each stage of its life cycle, the virus uses cell components to replicate and to spread in whole plants, within the largely suppressed cellular immunity environment. This work presents the above stages of the PDV life cycle in the context of current knowledge about other Bromoviridae members.
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- Edmund Kozieł
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska Street 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska Street 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
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Dynamic cross-talk between host primary metabolism and viruses during infections in plants. Curr Opin Virol 2016; 19:50-5. [PMID: 27442236 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Upon infection plant viruses modulate cellular functions and resources to survive and reproduce. Plant cells in which the virus is replicating are transformed into strong metabolic sinks. This conversion gives rise to a massive reprogramming of plant primary metabolism. Such a metabolic shift involves perturbations in carbohydrates, amino acids and lipids that eventually lead to increase respiration rates, and/or decrease in photosynthetic activity. By doing so, plants provide metabolic acclimation against cellular stress and meet the increased demand for energy needed to sustain virus multiplication and defense responses against viruses. This review will highlight our current knowledge pertaining to the contribution of primary metabolism to the outcome of viral infections in plants.
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Plant virus replication and movement. Virology 2015; 479-480:657-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Revised: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Kang SH, Bak A, Kim OK, Folimonova SY. Membrane association of a nonconserved viral protein confers virus ability to extend its host range. Virology 2015; 482:208-17. [PMID: 25880112 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.03.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), the largest and most complex member of the family Closteroviridae, encodes a unique protein, p33, which shows no homology with other known proteins, however, plays an important role in virus pathogenesis. In this study, we examined some of the characteristics of p33. We show that p33 is a membrane-associated protein that is inserted into the membrane via a transmembrane helix formed by hydrophobic amino acid residues at the C-terminal end of the protein. Removal of this transmembrane domain (TMD) dramatically altered the intracellular localization of p33. Moreover, the TMD alone was sufficient to confer membrane localization of an unrelated protein. Finally, a CTV variant that produced a truncated p33 lacking the TMD was unable to infect sour orange, one of the selected virus hosts, which infection requires p33, suggesting that membrane association of p33 is important for the ability of CTV to extend its host range.
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- Sung-Hwan Kang
- University of Florida, Plant Pathology Department, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- University of Florida, Plant Pathology Department, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- University of Florida, Plant Pathology Department, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Prosser SW, Xiao H, Li C, Nelson RS, Meng B. Subcellular localization and membrane association of the replicase protein of grapevine rupestris stem pitting-associated virus, family Betaflexiviridae. J Gen Virol 2015; 96:921-932. [PMID: 25502653 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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As a member of the newly established Betaflexiviridae family, grapevine rupestris stem pitting-associated virus (GRSPaV) has an RNA genome containing five ORFs. ORF1 encodes a putative replicase polyprotein typical of the alphavirus superfamily of positive-strand ssRNA viruses. Several viruses of this superfamily have been demonstrated to replicate in structures designated viral replication complexes associated with intracellular membranes. However, structure and cellular localization of the replicase complex have not been studied for members of Betaflexiviridae, a family of mostly woody plant viruses. As a first step towards the elucidation of the replication complex of GRSPaV, we investigated the subcellular localization of full-length and truncated versions of its replicase polyprotein via fluorescent tagging, followed by fluorescence microscopy. We found that the replicase polyprotein formed distinctive punctate bodies in both Nicotiana benthamiana leaf cells and tobacco protoplasts. We further mapped a region of 76 amino acids in the methyl-transferase domain responsible for the formation of these punctate structures. The punctate structures are distributed in close proximity to the endoplasmic reticulum network. Membrane flotation and biochemical analyses demonstrate that the N-terminal region responsible for punctate structure formation associated with cellular membrane is likely through an amphipathic α helix serving as an in-plane anchor. The identity of this membrane is yet to be determined. This is, to our knowledge, the first report on the localization and membrane association of the replicase proteins of a member of the family Betaflexiviridae.
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- Sean W Prosser
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G2W1
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G2W1
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G2W1
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- Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73410, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G2W1
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- Jean-François Laliberté
- INRS–Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laval, Québec H7V 1B7, Canada;
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 1B1, Canada;
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Bergua M, Luis-Arteaga M, Escriu F. Genetic Diversity, Reassortment, and Recombination in Alfalfa mosaic virus Population in Spain. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2014; 104:1241-1250. [PMID: 24779352 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-11-13-0309-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The variability and genetic structure of Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) in Spain was evaluated through the molecular characterization of 60 isolates collected from different hosts and different geographic areas. Analysis of nucleotide sequences in four coding regions--P1, P2, movement protein (MP), and coat protein (CP)--revealed a low genetic diversity and different restrictions to variation operating on each coding region. Phylogenetic analysis of Spanish isolates along with previously reported AMV sequences showed consistent clustering into types I and II for P1 and types I, IIA, and IIB for MP and CP regions. No clustering was observed for the P2 region. According to restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, the Spanish AMV population consisted of seven haplotypes, including two haplotypes generated by reassortment and one involving recombination. The most frequent haplotypes (types for P1, MP, and CP regions, respectively) were I-I-I (37%), II-IIB-IIB (30%), and one of the reassortants, II-I-I (17%). Distribution of haplotypes was not uniform, indicating that AMV population was structured according to the geographic origin of isolates. Our results suggest that agroecological factors are involved in the maintenance of AMV genetic types, including the reassortant one, and in their geographic distribution.
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Balasubramaniam M, Kim BS, Hutchens-Williams HM, Loesch-Fries LS. The photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex protein PsbP interacts with the coat protein of Alfalfa mosaic virus and inhibits virus replication. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2014; 27:1107-18. [PMID: 24940990 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-02-14-0035-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) coat protein (CP) is essential for many steps in virus replication from early infection to encapsidation. However, the identity and functional relevance of cellular factors that interact with CP remain unknown. In an unbiased yeast two-hybrid screen for CP-interacting Arabidopsis proteins, we identified several novel protein interactions that could potentially modulate AMV replication. In this report, we focus on one of the novel CP-binding partners, the Arabidopsis PsbP protein, which is a nuclear-encoded component of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. We validated the protein interaction in vitro with pull-down assays, in planta with bimolecular fluorescence complementation assays, and during virus infection by co-immunoprecipitations. CP interacted with the chloroplast-targeted PsbP in the cytosol and mutations that prevented the dimerization of CP abolished this interaction. Importantly, PsbP overexpression markedly reduced virus accumulation in infected leaves. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that AMV CP dimers interact with the chloroplast protein PsbP, suggesting a potential sequestration strategy that may preempt the generation of any PsbP-mediated antiviral state.
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Cui H, Hong N, Wang G, Wang A. Genomic segments RNA1 and RNA2 of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus codetermine viral pathogenicity to adapt to alternating natural Prunus hosts. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2013; 26:515-527. [PMID: 23360459 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-12-12-0282-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) affects Prunus fruit production worldwide. To date, numerous PNRSV isolates with diverse pathological properties have been documented. To study the pathogenicity of PNRSV, which directly or indirectly determines the economic losses of infected fruit trees, we have recently sequenced the complete genome of peach isolate Pch12 and cherry isolate Chr3, belonging to the pathogenically aggressive PV32 group and mild PV96 group, respectively. Here, we constructed the Chr3- and Pch12-derived full-length cDNA clones that were infectious in the experimental host cucumber and their respective natural Prunus hosts. Pch12-derived clones induced much more severe symptoms than Chr3 in cucumber, and the pathogenicity discrepancy between Chr3 and Pch12 was associated with virus accumulation. By reassortment of genomic segments, swapping of partial genomic segments, and site-directed mutagenesis, we identified the 3' terminal nucleotide sequence (1C region) in RNA1 and amino acid K at residue 279 in RNA2-encoded P2 as the severe virulence determinants in Pch12. Gain-of-function experiments demonstrated that both the 1C region and K279 of Pch12 were required for severe virulence and high levels of viral accumulation. Our results suggest that PNRSV RNA1 and RNA2 codetermine viral pathogenicity to adapt to alternating natural Prunus hosts, likely through mediating viral accumulation.
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- Hongguang Cui
- Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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Qiu Y, Wang Z, Liu Y, Qi N, Miao M, Si J, Xiang X, Cai D, Hu Y, Zhou X. Membrane association of Wuhan nodavirus protein A is required for its ability to accumulate genomic RNA1 template. Virology 2013; 439:140-51. [PMID: 23490047 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Revised: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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One common feature of positive-strand RNA viruses is the association of viral RNA and viral RNA replicase proteins with specific intracellular membranes to form RNA replication complexes. Wuhan nodavirus (WhNV) encodes protein A, which is the sole viral RNA replicase. Here, we showed that WhNV protein A closely associates with mitochondrial outer membranes and colocalizes with viral RNA replication sites. We further identified the transmembrane domains (N-terminal aa 33-64 and aa 212-254) of protein A for membrane association and mitochondrial localization. Moreover, we found that protein A accumulates genomic RNA by stabilizing the RNA. And our further investigation revealed that the ability of WhNV protein A to associate with membranes is closely linked with its ability for membrane recruitment and stabilization of viral genomic RNA templates. This study represents an advance toward understanding the mechanism of the RNA replication of WhNV and probably other nodaviruses.
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- Yang Qiu
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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Ilarviruses were among the first 16 groups of plant viruses approved by ICTV. Like Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV), bromoviruses, and cucumoviruses they are isometric viruses and possess a single-stranded, tripartite RNA genome. However, unlike these other three groups, ilarviruses were recognized as being recalcitrant subjects for research (their ready lability is reflected in the sigla used to create the group name) and were renowned as unpromising subjects for the production of antisera. However, it was recognized that they shared properties with AMV when the phenomenon of genome activation, in which the coat protein (CP) of the virus is required to be present to initiate infection, was demonstrated to cross group boundaries. The CP of AMV could activate the genome of an ilarvirus and vice versa. Development of the molecular information for ilarviruses lagged behind the knowledge available for the more extensively studied AMV, bromoviruses, and cucumoviruses. In the past 20 years, genomic data for most known ilarviruses have been developed facilitating their detection and allowing the factors involved in the molecular biology of the genus to be investigated. Much information has been obtained using Prunus necrotic ringspot virus and the more extensively studied AMV. A relationship between some ilarviruses and the cucumoviruses has been defined with the recognition that members of both genera encode a 2b protein involved in RNA silencing and long distance viral movement. Here, we present a review of the current knowledge of both the taxonomy and the molecular biology of this genus of agronomically and horticulturally important viruses.
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Ibrahim A, Hutchens HM, Berg RH, Loesch-Fries LS. Alfalfa mosaic virus replicase proteins, P1 and P2, localize to the tonoplast in the presence of virus RNA. Virology 2012; 433:449-61. [PMID: 22999257 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2012] [Revised: 08/01/2012] [Accepted: 08/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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To identify the virus components important for assembly of the Alfalfa mosaic virus replicase complex, we used live cell imaging of Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts that expressed various virus cDNAs encoding native and GFP-fusion proteins of P1 and P2 replicase proteins and full-length virus RNAs. Expression of P1-GFP alone resulted in fluorescent vesicle-like bodies in the cytoplasm that colocalized with FM4-64, an endocytic marker, and RFP-AtVSR2, RabF2a/Rha1-mCherry, and RabF2b/Ara7-mCherry, all of which localize to multivesicular bodies (MVBs), which are also called prevacuolar compartments, that mediate traffic to the lytic vacuole. GFP-P2 was driven from the cytosol to MVBs when expressed with P1 indicating that P1 recruited GFP-P2. P1-GFP localized on the tonoplast, which surrounds the vacuole, in the presence of infectious virus RNA, replication competent RNA2, or P2 and replication competent RNA1 or RNA3. This suggests that a functional replication complex containing P1, P2, and a full-length AMV RNA assembles on MVBs to traffic to the tonoplast.
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- Amr Ibrahim
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Wrapping membranes around plant virus infection. Curr Opin Virol 2011; 1:388-95. [PMID: 22440840 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2011.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2011] [Revised: 09/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Positive strand RNA viruses cause membrane modifications which are microenvironments or larger intracellular compartments, also called 'viroplasms'. These compartments serve to concentrate virus and host factors needed to produce new genomes. Forming these replication sites often involves virus induced membrane synthesis, changes in fatty acid metabolism, and viral recruitment of cellular factors to subcellular domains. Interacting viral and host factors builds the physical scaffold for replication complexes. Such virus induced changes are a visible cytopathology that has been used by plant and mammalian virologists to describe virus disease. This article describes key examples of membrane modifications that are essential for plant virus replication and intercellular transport.
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Vogel F, Hofius D, Paulus KE, Jungkunz I, Sonnewald U. The second face of a known player: Arabidopsis silencing suppressor AtXRN4 acts organ-specifically. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 189:484-493. [PMID: 21039560 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03482.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Plant viruses exploit the symplastic transport pathway provided by plasmodesmata by encoding for specialized movement proteins, which interact with host factors to enable viral intracellular and intercellular spread. Stable expression of the Potato leaf roll virus movement protein MP17 in Arabidopsis results in a carbohydrate export block and stunted growth. To identify host factors essential for viral infection, we screened a progeny population of EMS (ethyl methanesulfonate)-mutagenized Arabidopsis expressing a MP17:GFP fusion for suppressor mutants with restored wild type-like phenotype. Two suppressor mutants showed decreased susceptibility against Turnip mosaic virus and post-transcriptional silencing of MP17:GFP RNA in source leaves. Map based cloning identified in both lines mutations in XRN4 (Exoribonuclease 4), which was previously described as a suppressor of transgene silencing in source leaves. Importantly, silencing of MP17:GFP was not present in cotyledons and roots of the two suppressor mutants, which was confirmed in a third xrn4 T-DNA knock out line. Subsequent analysis of MP17:GFP transcript stability in xrn2 and xrn3 mutants indicated an essential role of AtXRN2 for silencing suppression in roots/cotyledons while AtXRN3 appears to act similar to AtXRN4 in source leaves, only. Overall, these findings point towards an organ-specific regulation of gene silencing in Arabidopsis.
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- Florian Vogel
- Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 5, D-91058 Erlangen Germany.
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Harries PA, Schoelz JE, Nelson RS. Intracellular transport of viruses and their components: utilizing the cytoskeleton and membrane highways. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2010; 23:1381-93. [PMID: 20653412 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-05-10-0121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Plant viruses are obligate organisms that require host components for movement within and between cells. A mechanistic understanding of virus movement will allow the identification of new methods to control virus systemic spread and serve as a model system for understanding host macromolecule intra- and intercellular transport. Recent studies have moved beyond the identification of virus proteins involved in virus movement and their effect on plasmodesmal size exclusion limits to the analysis of their interactions with host components to allow movement within and between cells. It is clear that individual virus proteins and replication complexes associate with and, in some cases, traffic along the host cytoskeleton and membranes. Here, we review these recent findings, highlighting the diverse associations observed between these components and their trafficking capacity. Plant viruses operate individually, sometimes within virus species, to utilize unique interactions between their proteins or complexes and individual host cytoskeletal or membrane elements over time or space for their movement. However, there is not sufficient information for any plant virus to create a complete model of its intracellular movement; thus, more research is needed to achieve that goal.
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- Phillip A Harries
- Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS 66762, USA
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Role of cellular lipids in positive-sense RNA virus replication complex assembly and function. Viruses 2010; 2:1055-1068. [PMID: 21994671 PMCID: PMC3187604 DOI: 10.3390/v2051055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2010] [Revised: 04/07/2010] [Accepted: 04/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Positive-sense RNA viruses are responsible for frequent and often devastating diseases in humans, animals, and plants. However, the development of effective vaccines and anti-viral therapies targeted towards these pathogens has been hindered by an incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in viral replication. One common feature of all positive-sense RNA viruses is the manipulation of host intracellular membranes for the assembly of functional viral RNA replication complexes. This review will discuss the interplay between cellular membranes and positive-sense RNA virus replication, and will focus specifically on the potential structural and functional roles for cellular lipids in this process.
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In vitro and in vivo studies of the RNA conformational switch in Alfalfa mosaic virus. J Virol 2009; 84:1423-9. [PMID: 19923185 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01443-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The 3' termini of Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) RNAs adopt two mutually exclusive conformations, a coat protein binding (CPB) and a tRNA-like (TL) conformer, which consist of a linear array of stem-loop structures and a pseudoknot structure, respectively. Previously, switching between CPB and TL conformers has been proposed as a mechanism to regulate the competing processes of translation and replication of the viral RNA (R. C. L. Olsthoorn et al., EMBO J. 18:4856-4864, 1999). In the present study, the switch between CPB and TL conformers was further investigated. First, we showed that recognition of the AMV 3' untranslated region (UTR) by a tRNA-specific enzyme (CCA-adding enzyme) in vitro is more efficient when the distribution is shifted toward the TL conformation. Second, the recognition of the 3' UTR by the viral replicase was similarly dependent on the ratio of CBP and TL conformers. Furthermore, the addition of CP, which is expected to shift the distribution toward the CPB conformer, inhibited recognition by the CCA-adding enzyme and the replicase. Finally, we monitored how the binding affinity to CP is affected by this conformational switch in the yeast three-hybrid system. Here, disruption of the pseudoknot enhanced the binding affinity to CP by shifting the balance in favor of the CPB conformer, whereas stabilizing the pseudoknot did the reverse. Together, the in vitro and in vivo data clearly demonstrate the existence of the conformational switch in the 3' UTR of AMV RNAs.
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Seo JK, Kwon SJ, Choi HS, Kim KH. Evidence for alternate states of Cucumber mosaic virus replicase assembly in positive- and negative-strand RNA synthesis. Virology 2009; 383:248-60. [PMID: 19022467 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.10.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 08/30/2008] [Accepted: 10/21/2008] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) encodes two viral replication proteins, 1a and 2a. Accumulating evidence implies that different aspects of 1a-2a interaction in replication complex assembly are involved in the regulation of virus replication. To further investigate CMV replicase assembly and to dissect the involvement of replicase activities in negative- and positive-strand synthesis, we transiently expressed CMV RNAs and/or proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves using a DNA or RNA-mediated expression system. Surprisingly, we found that, even in the absence of 1a, 2a is capable of synthesizing positive-strand RNAs, while 1a and 2a are both required for negative-strand synthesis. We also report evidence that 1a capping activities function independently of 2a. Moreover, using 1a mutants, we show that capping activities of 1a are crucial for viral translation but not for RNA transcription. These results support the concept that two or more alternate states of replicase assembly are involved in CMV replication.
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- Jang-Kyun Seo
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Rajagopal V, Patel SS. Viral Helicases. VIRAL GENOME REPLICATION 2009. [PMCID: PMC7121818 DOI: 10.1007/b135974_20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Helicases are motor proteins that use the free energy of NTP hydrolysis to catalyze the unwinding of duplex nucleic acids. Helicases participate in almost all processes involving nucleic acids. Their action is critical for replication, recombination, repair, transcription, translation, splicing, mRNA editing, chromatin remodeling, transport, and degradation (Matson and Kaiser-Rogers 1990; Matson et al. 1994; Mendonca et al. 1995; Luking et al. 1998).
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Sztuba-Solinska J, Bujarski JJ. Insights into the single-cell reproduction cycle of members of the family Bromoviridae: lessons from the use of protoplast systems. J Virol 2008; 82:10330-40. [PMID: 18684833 PMCID: PMC2573203 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00746-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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- Joanna Sztuba-Solinska
- Department of Biological Sciences, Plant Molecular Biology Center, Montgomery Hall, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL 60115, USA
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Plus-stranded RNA viruses induce large membrane structures that might support the replication of their genomes. Similarly, cytoplasmic replication of poxviruses (large DNA viruses) occurs in associated membranes. These membranes originate from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or endosomes. Membrane vesicles that support viral replication are induced by a number of RNA viruses. Similarly, the poxvirus replication site is surrounded by a double-membraned cisterna that is derived from the ER. Analogies to autophagy have been proposed since the finding that autophagy cellular processes involve the formation of double-membrane vesicles. However, molecular evidence to support this hypothesis is lacking. Membrane association of the viral replication complex is mediated by the presence of one or more viral proteins that contain sequences which associate with, or integrate into, membranes. Replication-competent membranes might contain viral or cellular proteins that contain amphipathic helices, which could mediate the membrane bending that is required to form spherical vesicles. Whereas poxvirus DNA replication occurs inside the ER-enclosed site, for most RNA viruses the topology of replication is not clear. Preliminary results for some RNA viruses suggest that their replication could also occur inside double-membrane vesicles. We speculate that cytoplasmic replication might occur inside sites that are 'enwrapped' by an ER-derived cisterna, and that these cisternae are open to the cytoplasm. Thus, RNA and DNA viruses could use a common mechanism for replication that involves membrane wrapping by cellular cisternal membranes. We propose that three-dimensional analyses using high-resolution electron-microscopy techniques could be useful for addressing this issue. High-throughput small-interfering-RNA screens should also shed light on molecular requirements for virus-induced membrane modifications.
Many viruses induce the formation of altered membrane structures upon replication in host cells. This Review examines how viruses modify intracellular membranes, highlights similarities between the structures that are induced by viruses from different families and discusses how these structures could be formed. Viruses are intracellular parasites that use the host cell they infect to produce new infectious progeny. Distinct steps of the virus life cycle occur in association with the cytoskeleton or cytoplasmic membranes, which are often modified during infection. Plus-stranded RNA viruses induce membrane proliferations that support the replication of their genomes. Similarly, cytoplasmic replication of some DNA viruses occurs in association with modified cellular membranes. We describe how viruses modify intracellular membranes, highlight similarities between the structures that are induced by viruses of different families and discuss how these structures could be formed.
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is invaluable for understanding fundamental cellular processes and disease states of relevance to higher eukaryotes. Plant viruses are intracellular parasites that take advantage of resources of the host cell, and a simple eukaryotic cell, such as yeast, can provide all or most of the functions for successful plant virus replication. Thus, yeast has been used as a model to unravel the interactions of plant viruses with their hosts. Indeed, genome-wide and proteomics studies using yeast as a model host with bromoviruses and tombusviruses have facilitated the identification of replication-associated factors that affect host-virus interactions, virus pathology, virus evolution, and host range. Many of the host genes that affect the replication of the two viruses, which belong to two dissimilar virus families, are distinct, suggesting that plant viruses have developed different ways to utilize the resources of host cells. In addition, a surprisingly large number of yeast genes have been shown to affect RNA-RNA recombination in tombusviruses; this opens an opportunity to study the role of the host in virus evolution. The knowledge gained about host-virus interactions likely will lead to the development of new antiviral methods and applications in biotechnology and nanotechnology, as well as new insights into cellular functions of individual genes and the basic biology of the host cell.
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- Peter D Nagy
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40546, USA.
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Netherton C, Moffat K, Brooks E, Wileman T. A guide to viral inclusions, membrane rearrangements, factories, and viroplasm produced during virus replication. Adv Virus Res 2007; 70:101-82. [PMID: 17765705 PMCID: PMC7112299 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(07)70004-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Virus replication can cause extensive rearrangement of host cell cytoskeletal and membrane compartments leading to the “cytopathic effect” that has been the hallmark of virus infection in tissue culture for many years. Recent studies are beginning to redefine these signs of viral infection in terms of specific effects of viruses on cellular processes. In this chapter, these concepts have been illustrated by describing the replication sites produced by many different viruses. In many cases, the cellular rearrangements caused during virus infection lead to the construction of sophisticated platforms in the cell that concentrate replicase proteins, virus genomes, and host proteins required for replication, and thereby increase the efficiency of replication. Interestingly, these same structures, called virus factories, virus inclusions, or virosomes, can recruit host components that are associated with cellular defences against infection and cell stress. It is possible that cellular defence pathways can be subverted by viruses to generate sites of replication. The recruitment of cellular membranes and cytoskeleton to generate virus replication sites can also benefit viruses in other ways. Disruption of cellular membranes can, for example, slow the transport of immunomodulatory proteins to the surface of infected cells and protect against innate and acquired immune responses, and rearrangements to cytoskeleton can facilitate virus release.
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- Christopher Netherton
- Vaccinology Group, Pirbright Laboratories, Institute for Animal Health, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Reichert VL, Choi M, Petrillo JE, Gehrke L. Alfalfa mosaic virus coat protein bridges RNA and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in vitro. Virology 2007; 364:214-26. [PMID: 17400272 PMCID: PMC2583179 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.02.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2007] [Revised: 02/13/2007] [Accepted: 02/23/2007] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) RNA replication requires the viral coat protein (CP). AMV CP is an integral component of the viral replicase; moreover, it binds to the viral RNA 3'-termini and induces the formation of multiple new base pairs that organize the RNA conformation. The results described here suggest that AMV coat protein binding defines template selection by organizing the 3'-terminal RNA conformation and by positioning the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) at the initiation site for minus strand synthesis. RNA-protein interactions were analyzed by using a modified Northwestern blotting protocol that included both viral coat protein and labeled RNA in the probe solution ("far-Northwestern blotting"). We observed that labeled RNA alone bound the replicase proteins poorly; however, complex formation was enhanced significantly in the presence of AMV CP. The RNA-replicase bridging function of the AMV CP may represent a mechanism for accurate de novo initiation in the absence of canonical 3' transfer RNA signals.
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- Vienna L Reichert
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Contrary to their host cells, many viruses contain RNA as genetic material and hence encode an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to replicate their genomes. This review discusses the present status of our knowledge on the structure of these enzymes and the mechanisms of RNA replication. The simplest viruses encode only the catalytic subunit of the replication complex, but other viruses also contribute a variable number of ancillary factors. These and other factors provided by the host cell play roles in the specificity and affinity of template recognition and the assembly of the replication complex. Usually, these host factors are involved in protein synthesis or RNA modification in the host cell, but they play roles in remodeling RNA-RNA, RNA-protein, and protein-protein interactions during virus RNA replication. Furthermore, viruses take advantage of and modify previous cell structural elements, frequently membrane vesicles, for the formation of RNA replication complexes.
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- Juan Ortín
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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Fujiki M, Kawakami S, Kim RW, Beachy RN. Domains of tobacco mosaic virus movement protein essential for its membrane association. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:2699-2707. [PMID: 16894211 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81936-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A series of deletion mutants of tobacco mosaic virus movement protein (TMV-MP) was used to identify domains of the protein necessary for membrane association. A membrane fraction was isolated from tobacco BY-2 protoplasts infected with wild-type and mutant TMV that produce MP carrying a 3 aa deletion. Deletions that affected membrane association were clustered around the two major hydrophobic regions of MP that are predicted to be transmembrane. Deletions in other hydrophobic regions also reduced membrane association. In addition, a non-functional mutant of MP, in which one of the known phosphorylation sites was eliminated, was not associated with cellular membranes, while a functional second site revertant restored membrane association. This indicates that MP function requires interaction with membrane; however, membrane association was not sufficient for function. Results are consistent with the hypothesis that TMV-MP is an integral or tightly associated membrane protein that includes two hydrophobic transmembrane domains.
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- Masaaki Fujiki
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
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Aparicio F, Sánchez-Navarro JA, Pallás V. In vitro and in vivo mapping of the Prunus necrotic ringspot virus coat protein C-terminal dimerization domain by bimolecular fluorescence complementation. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:1745-1750. [PMID: 16690941 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81696-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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 viral proteins are critical for virus viability. Bimolecular fluorescent complementation (BiFC) technique determines protein interactions in real-time under almost normal physiological conditions. The coat protein (CP) of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus is required for multiple functions in its replication cycle. In this study, the region involved in CP dimerization has been mapped by BiFC in both bacteria and plant tissue. Full-length and C-terminal deleted forms of the CP gene were fused in-frame to the N- and C-terminal fragments of the yellow fluorescent protein. The BiFC analysis showed that a domain located between residues 9 and 27 from the C-end plays a critical role in dimerization. The importance of this C-terminal region in dimer formation and the applicability of the BiFC technique to analyse viral protein interactions are discussed.
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- Frederic Aparicio
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (CSIC), Av. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (CSIC), Av. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (CSIC), Av. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Sánchez-Navarro JA, Carmen Herranz M, Pallás V. Cell-to-cell movement of Alfalfa mosaic virus can be mediated by the movement proteins of Ilar-, bromo-, cucumo-, tobamo- and comoviruses and does not require virion formation. Virology 2006; 346:66-73. [PMID: 16316673 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2005] [Revised: 06/29/2005] [Accepted: 10/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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RNA 3 of Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) encodes the movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP). Chimeric RNA 3 with the AMV MP gene replaced by the corresponding MP gene of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus, Brome mosaic virus, Cucumber mosaic virus or Cowpea mosaic virus efficiently moved from cell-to-cell only when the expressed MP was extended at its C-terminus with the C-terminal 44 amino acids of AMV MP. MP of Tobacco mosaic virus supported the movement of the chimeric RNA 3 whether or not the MP was extended with the C-terminal AMV MP sequence. The replacement of the CP gene in RNA 3 by a mutant gene encoding a CP defective in virion formation did not affect cell-to-cell transport of the chimera's with a functional MP. A GST pull-down technique was used to demonstrate for the first time that the C-terminal 44 amino acids of the MP of a virus belonging to the family Bromoviridae interact specifically with AMV virus particles. Together, these results demonstrate that AMV RNA 3 can be transported from cell-to-cell by both tubule-forming and non-tubule-forming MPs if a specific MP-CP interaction occurs.
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- Jesús A Sánchez-Navarro
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia-CSIC, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
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Villanueva RA, Rouillé Y, Dubuisson J. Interactions between virus proteins and host cell membranes during the viral life cycle. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 245:171-244. [PMID: 16125548 PMCID: PMC7112339 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(05)45006-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The structure and function of cells are critically dependent on membranes, which not only separate the interior of the cell from its environment but also define the internal compartments. It is therefore not surprising that the major steps of the life cycle of viruses of animals and plants also depend on cellular membranes. Indeed, interactions of viral proteins with host cell membranes are important for viruses to enter into host cells, replicate their genome, and produce progeny particles. To replicate its genome, a virus first needs to cross the plasma membrane. Some viruses can also modify intracellular membranes of host cells to create a compartment in which genome replication will take place. Finally, some viruses acquire an envelope, which is derived either from the plasma membrane or an internal membrane of the host cell. This paper reviews recent findings on the interactions of viral proteins with host cell membranes during the viral life cycle.
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- Rodrigo A Villanueva
- CNRS-UPR2511, Institut de Biologie de Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, 59021 Lille Cedex, France
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This chapter provides an updated view of the host factors that are, at present, believed to participate in replication/transcription of RNA viruses. One of the major hurdles faced when attempting to identify host factors specifically involved in viral RNA replication/transcription is how to discriminate these factors from those involved in translation. Several of the host factors shown to affect viral RNA synthesis are factors known to be involved in protein synthesis, for example, translation factors. In addition, some of the factors identified to date appear to influence viral RNA amplification as well as viral protein synthesis, and translation and replication are frequently tightly associated. Several specific host factors actively participating in viral RNA transcription/replication have been identified and the regions of host protein/replicase or host protein/viral RNA interaction have been determined. The chapter centers exclusively on those factors that appear functionally important for viral amplification. It presents a list of the viruses for which a specific host factor associates with the polymerase, affecting viral genome amplification. It also indicates the usually accepted cell function of the factor and the viral polymerase or polymerase subunit to which the host factor binds.
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Sanfaçon H. Replication of positive-strand RNA viruses in plants: contact points between plant and virus components. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1139/b05-121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Positive-strand RNA viruses constitute the largest group of plant viruses and have an important impact on world agriculture. These viruses have small genomes that encode a limited number of proteins and depend on their hosts to complete the various steps of their replication cycle. In this review, the contact points between positive-strand RNA plant viruses and their hosts, which are necessary for the translation and replication of the viral genomes, are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the description of viral replication complexes that are associated with specific membranous compartments derived from plant intracellular membranes and contain viral RNAs and proteins as well as a variety of host proteins. These complexes are assembled via an intricate network of protein–protein, protein–membrane, and protein–RNA interactions. The role of host factors in regulating the assembly, stability, and activity of viral replication complexes are also discussed.
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- Hélène Sanfaçon
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, 4200 Highway 97, Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0, Canada (e-mail: )
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Viruses represent significant threats to modern agriculture and their biological control remains a challenge in the twenty-first century. Recent progress has been made in our understanding of natural and engineered virus resistance, the two major strategies used for crop protection. The molecular mechanisms underlying the roles of both dominant and recessive resistance genes have been elucidated, promoting the development of possible new antiviral strategies. Engineering resistance in plants, in particular RNA-mediated protection, is also becoming increasingly important and is likely to play a key role in the future.
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- Christophe Ritzenthaler
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
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Dye BT, Miller DJ, Ahlquist P. In vivo self-interaction of nodavirus RNA replicase protein a revealed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. J Virol 2005; 79:8909-19. [PMID: 15994785 PMCID: PMC1168736 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.14.8909-8919.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Flock house virus (FHV) is the best-characterized member of the Nodaviridae, a family of small, positive-strand RNA viruses. Unlike most RNA viruses, FHV encodes only a single polypeptide, protein A, that is required for RNA replication. Protein A contains a C-proximal RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain and localizes via an N-terminal transmembrane domain to the outer mitochondrial membrane, where FHV RNA replication takes place in association with invaginations referred to as spherules. We demonstrate here that protein A self-interacts in vivo by using flow cytometric analysis of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), spectrofluorometric analysis of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer, and coimmunoprecipitation. Several nonoverlapping protein A sequences were able to independently direct protein-protein interaction, including an N-terminal region previously shown to be sufficient for localization to the outer mitochondrial membrane (D. J. Miller and P. Ahlquist, J. Virol. 76:9856-9867, 2000). Mutations in protein A that diminished FRET also diminished FHV RNA replication, a finding consistent with an important role for protein A self-interaction in FHV RNA synthesis. Thus, the results imply that FHV protein A functions as a multimer rather than as a monomer at one or more steps in RNA replication.
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- Billy T Dye
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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All plus-strand RNA viruses replicate in association with cytoplasmic membranes of infected cells. The RNA replication complex of many virus families is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum membranes, for example, picorna-, flavi-, arteri-, and bromoviruses. However, endosomes and lysosomes (togaviruses), peroxisomes and chloroplasts (tombusviruses), and mitochondria (nodaviruses) are also used as sites for RNA replication. Studies of individual nonstructural proteins, the virus-specific components of the RNA replicase, have revealed that the replication complexes are associated with the membranes and targeted to the respective organelle by the ns proteins rather than RNA. Many ns proteins have hydrophobic sequences and may transverse the membrane like polytopic integral membrane proteins, whereas others interact with membranes monotopically. Hepatitis C virus ns proteins offer examples of polytopic transmembrane proteins (NS2, NS4B), a “tip-anchored” protein attached to the membrane by an amphipathic α-helix (NS5A) and a “tail-anchored” posttranslationally inserted protein (NS5B). Semliki Forest virus nsP1 is attached to the plasma membrane by a specific binding peptide in the middle of the protein, which forms an amphipathic α-helix. Interaction of nsP1 with membrane lipids is essential for its capping enzyme activities. The other soluble replicase proteins are directed to the endo-lysosomal membranes only as part of the initial polyprotein. Poliovirus ns proteins utilize endoplasmic reticulum membranes from which vesicles are released in COPII coats. However, these vesicles are not directed to the normal secretory pathway, but accumulate in the cytoplasm. In many cases the replicase proteins induce membrane invaginations or vesicles, which function as protective environments for RNA replication.
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- Mark Marsh
- Cell Biology Unit, MRC-LMCB, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT UK
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In the family Bromoviridae, a mixture of the three genomic RNAs of bromo-, cucumo-, and oleaviruses is infectious as such, whereas the RNAs of alfamo- and ilarviruses require binding of a few molecules of coat protein (CP) to the 3' end to initiate infection. Most studies on the early function of CP have been done on the alfamovirus Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV). The 3' 112 nucleotides of AMV RNAs can adopt two different conformations. One conformer consists of a tRNA-like structure that, together with an upstream hairpin, is required for minus-strand promoter activity. The other conformer consists of four hairpins interspersed by AUGC-sequences and represents a strong binding site for CP. Binding of CP to this conformer enhances the translational efficiency of viral RNAs in vivo 40-fold and blocks viral minus-strand RNA synthesis in vitro. AMV CP is proposed to initiate infection by mimicking the function of the poly(A)-binding protein.
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- John F Bol
- Institute of Biology, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Jakubiec A, Notaise J, Tournier V, Héricourt F, Block MA, Drugeon G, van Aelst L, Jupin I. Assembly of turnip yellow mosaic virus replication complexes: interaction between the proteinase and polymerase domains of the replication proteins. J Virol 2004; 78:7945-57. [PMID: 15254167 PMCID: PMC446095 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.15.7945-7957.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2004] [Accepted: 03/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV), a positive-strand RNA virus in the alphavirus-like supergroup, encodes two nonstructural replication proteins (140K and 66K), both of which are required for its RNA genome replication. The 140K protein contains domains indicative of methyltransferase, proteinase, and NTPase/helicase activities, while the 66K protein encompasses the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain. Recruitment of the 66K protein to the sites of viral replication, located at the periphery of chloroplasts, is dependent upon the expression of the 140K protein. Using antibodies raised against the 140K and 66K proteins and confocal microscopy, we report the colocalization of the TYMV replication proteins at the periphery of chloroplasts in transfected or infected cells. The replication proteins cofractionated in functional replication complexes or with purified chloroplast envelope membranes prepared from infected plants. Using a two-hybrid system and coimmunoprecipitation experiments, we also provide evidence for a physical interaction of the TYMV replication proteins. In contrast to what has been found for other members of the alphavirus-like supergroup, the interaction domains were mapped to the proteinase domain of the 140K protein and to a large region encompassing the core polymerase domain within the 66K protein. Coexpression and colocalization experiments confirmed that the helicase domain of the 140K protein is unnecessary for the proper recruitment of the 66K protein to the chloroplast envelope, while the proteinase domain appears to be essential for that process. These results support a novel model for the interaction of TYMV replication proteins and suggest that viruses in the alphavirus-like supergroup may have selected different pathways to assemble their replication complexes.
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- Anna Jakubiec
- Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS-Universités Paris 6-Paris 7, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Guo YX, Chan SW, Kwang J. Membrane association of greasy grouper nervous necrosis virus protein A and characterization of its mitochondrial localization targeting signal. J Virol 2004; 78:6498-508. [PMID: 15163743 PMCID: PMC416515 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.12.6498-6508.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Localization of RNA replication to intracellular membranes is a universal feature of positive-strand RNA viruses. The betanodavirus greasy grouper (Epinephelus tauvina) nervous necrosis virus (GGNNV) is a positive-RNA virus with one of the smallest genomes among RNA viruses replicating in fish cells. To understand the localization of GGNNV replication complexes, we generated polyclonal antisera against protein A, the GGNNV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Protein A was detected at 5 h postinfection in infected sea bass cells. Biochemical fractionation experiments revealed that GGNNV protein A sedimented with intracellular membranes upon treatment with an alkaline pH and a high salt concentration, indicating that GGNNV protein A is tightly associated with intracellular membranes in infected cells. Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy and bromo-UTP incorporation studies identified mitochondria as the intracellular site of protein A localization and viral RNA synthesis. In addition, protein A fused with green fluorescent protein (GFP) was detected in the mitochondria in transfected cells and was demonstrated to be tightly associated with intracellular membranes by biochemical fractionation analysis and membrane flotation assays, indicating that protein A alone was sufficient for mitochondrial localization in the absence of RNA replication, nonstructural protein B, or capsid proteins. Three sequence analysis programs showed two regions of hydrophobic amino acid residues, amino acids 153 to 173 and 229 to 249, to be transmembrane domains (TMD) that might contain a membrane association domain. Membrane fraction analysis showed that the major domain is N-terminal amino acids 215 to 255, containing the predicted TMD from amino acids 229 to 249. Using GFP as the reporter by systematically introducing deletions of these two regions in the constructs, we further confirmed that the N-terminal amino acids 215 to 255 of protein A function as a mitochondrial targeting signal.
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- Yan Xiang Guo
- Animal Health Biotechnology Unit, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link, The National University of Singapore, Singapore 117604
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Miller DJ, Schwartz MD, Dye BT, Ahlquist P. Engineered retargeting of viral RNA replication complexes to an alternative intracellular membrane. J Virol 2003; 77:12193-202. [PMID: 14581556 PMCID: PMC254284 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.22.12193-12202.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Positive-strand RNA virus replication complexes are universally associated with intracellular membranes, although different viruses use membranes derived from diverse and sometimes multiple organelles. We investigated whether unique intracellular membranes are required for viral RNA replication complex formation and function in yeast by retargeting protein A, the Flock House virus (FHV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Protein A, the only viral protein required for FHV RNA replication, targets and anchors replication complexes to outer mitochondrial membranes in part via an N-proximal sequence that contains a transmembrane domain. We replaced the FHV protein A mitochondrial outer membrane-targeting sequence with the N-terminal endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-targeting sequence from the yeast NADP cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase or inverted C-terminal ER-targeting sequences from the hepatitis C virus NS5B polymerase or the yeast t-SNARE Ufe1p. Confocal immunofluorescence microscopy confirmed that protein A chimeras retargeted to the ER. FHV subgenomic and genomic RNA accumulation in yeast expressing ER-targeted protein A increased 2- to 13-fold over that in yeast expressing wild-type protein A, despite similar protein A levels. Density gradient flotation assays demonstrated that ER-targeted protein A remained membrane associated, and in vitro RNA-dependent RNA polymerase assays demonstrated an eightfold increase in the in vitro RNA synthesis activity of the ER-targeted FHV RNA replication complexes. Electron microscopy showed a change in the intracellular membrane alterations from a clustered mitochondrial distribution with wild-type protein A to the formation of perinuclear layers with ER-targeted protein A. We conclude that specific intracellular membranes are not required for FHV RNA replication complex formation and function.
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- David J Miller
- Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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El-Fahmawi B, Owttrim GW. Polar-biased localization of the cold stress-induced RNA helicase, CrhC, in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Mol Microbiol 2003; 50:1439-48. [PMID: 14622428 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03783.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Shift of the filamentous cyanobacterium, Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120, from 30 degrees C to 20 degrees C induces expression of a cold shock response gene encoding the RNA helicase CrhC. Subcellular localization using cellular fractionation and membrane purification indicated that CrhC is localized to the plasma membrane with no evidence of a soluble-cytoplasmic form. Treatment of spheroplasts with trypsin and membrane fractions with various denaturing agents identified CrhC as an integral membrane protein associated with the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane. Immunoelectron microscopy confirmed the plasma membrane association of CrhC. Interestingly, a higher specific labelling was observed at the cell poles on the septa between adjacent cells within cell filaments. On a per cell area basis, CrhC localization to the cell pole was 3.5- and >1000-fold higher than to the lateral portion of the plasma membrane or cytoplasm respectively. In addition, CrhC also localizes to new cell poles forming within a dividing cell. Polar-biased localization of the CrhC RNA helicase implies a role in RNA metabolism that is plasma membrane associated and preferentially occurs at the cell poles during cyanobacterial response to cold stress.
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- Bassam El-Fahmawi
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9
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Vlot AC, Laros SM, Bol JF. Coordinate replication of alfalfa mosaic virus RNAs 1 and 2 involves cis- and trans-acting functions of the encoded helicase-like and polymerase-like domains. J Virol 2003; 77:10790-8. [PMID: 14512529 PMCID: PMC224981 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.20.10790-10798.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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RNAs 1 and 2 of the tripartite genome of alfalfa mosaic virus encode the replicase proteins P1 and P2, respectively, whereas RNA 3 encodes the movement protein and coat protein. Transient expression of wild-type (wt) and mutant viral RNAs and proteins by agroinfiltration of plant leaves was used to study cis- and trans-acting functions of the helicase-like domain in P1 and the polymerase-like domain in P2. Three mutations in conserved motifs of the helicase-like domain of P1 affected one or more steps leading to synthesis of minus-strand RNAs 1, 2, and 3. In leaves containing transiently expressed P1 and P2, replication of wt but not mutant RNA 1 was observed. Apparently, the transiently expressed P1 could not complement the defect in replication of the RNA 1 mutant. Moreover, the transiently expressed wt replicase supported replication of RNA 2, but this replication was blocked in trans by coexpression of mutant RNA 1. However, expression of mutant RNA 1 did not interfere with the replication of RNA 3 by the wt replicase. Similarly, a mutation in the GDD motif encoded by RNA 2 could not be complemented in trans and affected the replication of RNA 1 by a wt replicase, while replication of RNA 3 remained unaffected. In competition assays, the transient wt replicase preferentially replicated RNA 3 over RNAs 1 and 2. The results indicate that one or more functions of P1 and P2 act in cis and point to the existence of a mechanism that coordinates the replication of RNAs 1 and 2.
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- A Corina Vlot
- Institute of Biology, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Prod'homme D, Jakubiec A, Tournier V, Drugeon G, Jupin I. Targeting of the turnip yellow mosaic virus 66K replication protein to the chloroplast envelope is mediated by the 140K protein. J Virol 2003; 77:9124-35. [PMID: 12915529 PMCID: PMC187420 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.17.9124-9135.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2003] [Accepted: 05/09/2003] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV), a positive-strand RNA virus in the alphavirus-like superfamily, encodes two replication proteins, 140K and 66K, both being required for its RNA genome replication. The 140K protein contains domains indicative of methyltransferase, proteinase, and NTPase/helicase, and the 66K protein encompasses the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain. During viral infection, the 66K protein localizes to virus-induced chloroplastic membrane vesicles, which are closely associated with TYMV RNA replication. To investigate the determinants of its subcellular localization, the 66K protein was expressed in plant protoplasts from separate plasmids. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion and immunofluorescence experiments demonstrated that the 66K protein displayed a cytoplasmic distribution when expressed individually but that it was relocated to the chloroplast periphery under conditions in which viral replication occurred. The 66K protein produced from an expression vector was functional in viral replication since it could transcomplement a defective replication template. Targeting of the 66K protein to the chloroplast envelope in the course of the viral infection appeared to be solely dependent on the expression of the 140K protein. Analysis of the subcellular localization of the 140K protein fused to GFP demonstrated that it is targeted to the chloroplast envelope in the absence of other viral factors and that it induces the clumping of the chloroplasts, one of the typical cytological effects of TYMV infection. These results suggests that the 140K protein is a key organizer of the assembly of the TYMV replication complexes and a major determinant for their chloroplastic localization and retention.
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- Delphine Prod'homme
- Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 7592, CNRS-Universités Paris 6-Paris 7, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Fujisaki K, Kaido M, Mise K, Okuno T. Use of Spring beauty latent virus to identify compatible interactions between bromovirus components required for virus infection. J Gen Virol 2003; 84:1367-1375. [PMID: 12771403 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19020-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Spring beauty latent virus (SBLV) is a member of the genus Bromovirus, and is closely related to Brome mosaic virus (BMV) and Cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV). Compatible interactions between viral components are required for successful infection of plants by BMV and CCMV. To further our understanding of interactions between bromovirus components, we used SBLV to produce reassortants among the three bromoviruses. We found that SBLV RNA 2 functioned with heterologous bromovirus RNA 1 in infections of whole plants and protoplasts of Nicotiana benthamiana, although SBLV RNA 1 did not function with heterologous bromovirus RNA 2. A DNA-based transient assay for 1a and 2a proteins, which are encoded by RNAs 1 and 2, respectively further suggested that SBLV 2a protein may function in combination with heterologous bromovirus 1a protein. Moreover, analysis of the ability of reassortants to spread locally revealed that an RNA 2-mediated interaction between viral components may be required for efficient cell-to-cell movement of bromoviruses.
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- Koki Fujisaki
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Hagiwara Y, Komoda K, Yamanaka T, Tamai A, Meshi T, Funada R, Tsuchiya T, Naito S, Ishikawa M. Subcellular localization of host and viral proteins associated with tobamovirus RNA replication. EMBO J 2003; 22:344-53. [PMID: 12514140 PMCID: PMC140108 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2002] [Revised: 11/01/2002] [Accepted: 11/21/2002] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Arabidopsis TOM1 (AtTOM1) and TOM2A (AtTOM2A) are integral membrane proteins genetically identified to be necessary for efficient intracellular multiplication of tobamoviruses. AtTOM1 interacts with the helicase domain polypeptide of tobamovirus-encoded replication proteins and with AtTOM2A, suggesting that both AtTOM1 and AtTOM2A are integral components of the tobamovirus replication complex. We show here that AtTOM1 and AtTOM2A proteins tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP) are targeted to the vacuolar membrane (tonoplast)-like structures in plant cells. In subcellular fractionation analyses, GFP-AtTOM2A, AtTOM2A and its tobacco homolog NtTOM2A were predominantly fractionated to low-density tonoplast-rich fractions, whereas AtTOM1-GFP, AtTOM1 and its tobacco homolog NtTOM1 were distributed mainly into the tonoplast-rich fractions and partially into higher-buoyant-density fractions containing membranes from several other organelles. The tobamovirus-encoded replication proteins were co-fractionated with both NtTOM1 and viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity. The replication proteins were also found in the fractions containing non-membrane-bound proteins, but neither NtTOM1 nor the polymerase activity was detected there. These observations suggest that the formation of tobamoviral RNA replication complex occurs on TOM1-containing membranes and is facilitated by TOM2A.
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- Yuka Hagiwara
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Japan Corresponding author e-mail:
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Bol JF. Alfalfa mosaic virus: coat protein-dependent initiation of infection. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2003; 4:1-8. [PMID: 20569357 DOI: 10.1046/j.1364-3703.2003.00146.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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UNLABELLED SUMMARY Taxonomy: Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) is the type species of the genus Alfamovirus and belongs to the family Bromoviridae. In this family, the tripartite RNA genomes of bromo-, cucumo- and probably oleaviruses are infectious as such, whereas infection with the three genomic RNAs of alfamo- and ilarviruses requires addition to the inoculum of a few molecules of coat protein (CP) per RNA molecule. RNAs 1 and 2 encode the replicase proteins P1 and P2, RNA 3 encodes the movement protein and CP. CP is translated from the subgenomic RNA 4. Physical properties: RNAs 1 (3.65 kb), 2 (2.6 kb) and 3 (2.2 kb) are separately encapsidated into bacilliform particles which are 19 nm wide and 35-56 nm long. In addition, the virus preparations contain spheroidal particles each containing two copies of RNA 4 (0.88 kb). Virus particles contain 16-17% RNA and are mainly stabilized by protein-RNA interactions. The 3'-termini of the viral RNAs contain a homologous sequence of 145 nucleotides that can adopt two alternative conformations: one represents a high-affinity binding site for CP, the other resembles a tRNA-like structure and is required for minus-strand promoter activity. Hosts: AMV mostly infects herbaceous plants, but several woody species are included in the natural host range. The experimental and natural host ranges include over 600 species in 70 families. At least 15 aphid species are known to transmit the virus in the stylet-borne or non-persistent manner. Economic importance: AMV is a significant pathogen in alfalfa and sweet clover and can spread from these forages to neighbouring crops like pepper, tobacco or soybean. The recent introduction of the soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) in the mid-west states of the USA has increased the incidence of AMV in soybean. AMV occurs world-wide in potato and is referred to as 'calico mosaic' because of its characteristic symptoms on the foliage. However, the economic importance of AMV in potato is limited. USEFUL WEBSITES <http://www.socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/JGV/080/1089/0801089A.PDF> review paper; <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVdB/10010001.htm> host range and physical properties; <http://mmtsb.scripps.edu/viper/1amv.html> structural information.
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- John F Bol
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
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Vlot AC, Menard A, Bol JF. Role of the alfalfa mosaic virus methyltransferase-like domain in negative-strand RNA synthesis. J Virol 2002; 76:11321-8. [PMID: 12388692 PMCID: PMC136773 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.22.11321-11328.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2002] [Accepted: 08/15/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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RNAs 1 and 2 of the tripartite genome of alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) encode the replicase proteins P1 and P2, respectively. P1 contains a methyltransferase-like domain in its N-terminal half, which has a putative role in capping the viral RNAs. Six residues in this domain that are highly conserved in the methyltransferase domains of alphavirus-like viruses were mutated individually in AMV P1. None of the mutants was infectious to plants. Mutant RNA 1 was coexpressed with wild-type (wt) RNAs 2 and 3 from transferred DNA vectors in Nicotiana benthamiana by agroinfiltration. Mutation of His-100 or Cys-189 in P1 reduced accumulation of negative- and positive-strand RNA in the infiltrated leaves to virtually undetectable levels. Mutation of Asp-154, Arg-157, Cys-182, or Tyr-266 in P1 reduced negative-strand RNA accumulation to levels ranging from 2 to 38% of those for the wt control, whereas positive-strand RNA accumulation by these mutants was 2% or less. The (transiently) expressed replicases of the six mutants were purified from the agroinfiltrated leaves. Polymerase activities of these preparations in vitro ranged from undetectable to wt levels. The data indicate that, in addition to its putative role in RNA capping, the methyltransferase-like domain of P1 has distinct roles in replication-associated functions required for negative-strand RNA synthesis. The defect in negative-strand RNA synthesis of the His-100 and Cys-189 mutants could be complemented in trans by coexpression of wt P1.
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- A Corina Vlot
- Gorlaeus Laboratories, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Cillo F, Roberts IM, Palukaitis P. In situ localization and tissue distribution of the replication-associated proteins of Cucumber mosaic virus in tobacco and cucumber. J Virol 2002; 76:10654-64. [PMID: 12368307 PMCID: PMC136603 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.21.10654-10664.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2002] [Accepted: 07/22/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The replication-associated proteins encoded by Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the 1a and 2a proteins, were detected by immunogold labeling in two host species of this virus, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus). In both hosts, the 1a and 2a proteins colocalized predominantly to the vacuolar membranes, the tonoplast. While plus-strand CMV RNAs were found distributed throughout the cytoplasm by in situ hybridization, minus-strand CMV RNAs were barely detectable but were found associated with the tonoplast. In both cucumber and tobacco, 2a protein was detected at higher densities than 1a protein. The 1a and 2a proteins also showed quantitative differences with regard to tissue distributions in tobacco and cucumber. About three times as much 2a protein was detected in CMV-infected cucumber tissues as in CMV-infected tobacco tissues. In tobacco, high densities of these proteins were observed only in vascular bundle cells of minor veins. In contrast, in cucumber, high densities of 1a and 2a proteins were observed in mesophyll cells, followed by epidermis cells, with only low levels being observed in vascular bundle cells. Differences were also observed in the distributions of 2a protein and capsid protein in vascular bundle cells of the two host species. These observations may represent differences in the relative rates of tissue infection in different hosts or differences in the extent of virus replication in vascular tissues of different hosts.
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- Fabrizio Cillo
- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom
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