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Gong M, Wang Y, Liu S, Li B, Du E, Gao Y. Rapid Construction of an Infectious Clone of Fowl Adenovirus Serotype 4 Isolate. Viruses 2023; 15:1657. [PMID: 37632000 PMCID: PMC10459658 DOI: 10.3390/v15081657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Adenovirus vectors possess a good safety profile, an extensive genome, a range of host cells, high viral yield, and the ability to elicit broad humoral and cellular immune responses. Adenovirus vectors are widely used in infectious disease research for future vaccine development and gene therapy. In this study, we obtained a fowl adenovirus serotype 4 (FAdV-4) isolate from sick chickens with hepatitis-hydropericardium syndrome (HHS) and conducted animal regression text to clarify biological pathology. We amplified the transfer vector and extracted viral genomic DNA from infected LMH cells, then recombined the mixtures via the Gibson assembly method in vitro and electroporated them into EZ10 competent cells to construct the FAdV-4 infectious clone. The infectious clones were successfully rescued in LMH cells within 15 days of transfection. The typical cytopathic effect (CPE) and propagation titer of FAdV-4 infectious clones were also similar to those for wild-type FAdV-4. To further construct the single-cycle adenovirus (SC-Ad) vector, we constructed SC-Ad vectors by deleting the gene for IIIa capsid cement protein. The FAdV4 infectious clone vector was introduced into the ccdB cm expression cassette to replace the IIIa gene using a λ-red homologous recombination technique, and then the ccdB cm expression cassette was excised by PmeI digestion and self-ligation to obtain the resulting plasmids as SC-Ad vectors.
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- Minzhi Gong
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
- Yangling Carey Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (M.G.); (Y.W.); (S.L.); (B.L.)
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Sion E, Ab-Rahim S, Muhamad M. Trends on Human Norovirus Virus-like Particles (HuNoV-VLPs) and Strategies for the Construction of Infectious Viral Clones toward In Vitro Replication. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:1447. [PMID: 37511822 PMCID: PMC10381778 DOI: 10.3390/life13071447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Most acute gastroenteritis (AGE) outbreaks and sporadic cases in developing countries are attributable to infection by human norovirus (HuNoV), the enteric virus mainly transmitted via fecal-contaminated water. However, it has been challenging to study HuNoV due to the lack of suitable systems to cultivate and replicate the virus, hindering the development of treatments and vaccines. Researchers have been using virus-like particles (VLPs) and infectious viral clones to overcome this challenge as alternatives to fresh virus isolates in various in vitro and ex vivo models. VLPs are multiprotein structures that mimic the wild-type virus but cannot replicate in host cells due to the lack of genetic materials for replication, limiting downstream analysis of the virus life cycle and pathogenesis. The development of in vitro cloning systems has shown promise for HuNoV replication studies. This review discusses the approaches for constructing HuNoV-VLPs and infectious viral clones, the techniques involved, and the challenges faced. It also highlights the relationship between viral genes and their protein products and provides a perspective on technical considerations for producing efficient HuNoV-VLPs and infectious viral clones, which could substitute for native human noroviruses in future studies.
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- Emilly Sion
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Branch, Sungai Buloh Campus, Sungai Buloh 47000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Branch, Sungai Buloh Campus, Sungai Buloh 47000, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor Branch, Sungai Buloh Campus, Sungai Buloh 47000, Selangor, Malaysia
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Feng C, Guo X, Gu T, Hua Y, Zhuang X, Zhang K. Generation of a Triple-Shuttling Vector and the Application in Plant Plus-Strand RNA Virus Infectious cDNA Clone Construction. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24065477. [PMID: 36982550 PMCID: PMC10056883 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2023] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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Infectious cloning of plant viruses is a powerful tool for studying the reverse genetic manipulation of viral genes in virus–host plant interactions, contributing to a deeper understanding of the life history and pathogenesis of viruses. Yet, most of the infectious clones of RNA virus constructed in E. coli are unstable and toxic. Therefore, we modified the binary vector pCass4-Rz and constructed the ternary shuttle vector pCA4Y. The pCA4Y vector has a higher copy number in the E. coli than the conventional pCB301 vector, can obtain a high concentration of plasmid, and is economical and practical, so it is suitable for the construction of plant virus infectious clones in basic laboratories. The constructed vector can be directly extracted from yeast and transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens to avoid toxicity in E. coli. Taking advantage of the pCA4Y vector, we established a detailed large and multiple DNA HR-based cloning method in yeast using endogenous recombinase. We successfully constructed the Agrobacterium-based infectious cDNA clone of ReMV. This study provides a new choice for the construction of infectious viral clones.
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- Chenwei Feng
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture, Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture, Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High, Technology for Plant Protection, Guangzhou 510640, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, Jiangsu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Correspondence: or ; Tel.: +86-182-5274-7896
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Vuong I, Mageeney CM, Williams KP. BigDNA: Primer Design Software for Overlap-Based Assembly of Phage Genomes and Larger DNAs. PHAGE (NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.) 2022; 3:213-220. [PMID: 36793884 PMCID: PMC9917320 DOI: 10.1089/phage.2022.0033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Background Gibson assembly and assembly-in-yeast are strategies to create long synthetic DNAs from diverse fragments, for example, when engineering bacteriophage genomes. Design for these methods requires terminal sequence overlaps in the fragments, determining the order of assembly. Design to rebuild a genomic fragment that is too long for a single PCR presents a puzzle since some candidate joint regions cannot yield satisfactory primers for the overlap. No existing overlap assembly design software is open-source, and none explicitly supports rebuilding. Methods We describe here bigDNA software that solves the rebuilding puzzle by recursive backtracking, with options to remove or introduce genes; it also tests for mispriming on the template DNA. BigDNA was tested with 3082 prophages and other genomic islands (GIs), from 20 to 100 kb, and the synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome. Results Rebuilding assembly design succeeded for all but ∼1% of GIs. Conclusion BigDNA will speed and standardize assembly design.
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- Ivan Vuong
- Systems Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA
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- Systems Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA
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Jaafar NR, Jailani N, Rahman RA, Öner ET, Murad AMA, Illias RM. Protein surface engineering and interaction studies of maltogenic amylase towards improved enzyme immobilisation. Int J Biol Macromol 2022; 213:70-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.05.169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 05/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PlasmidMaker is a versatile, automated, and high throughput end-to-end platform for plasmid construction. Nat Commun 2022; 13:2697. [PMID: 35577775 PMCID: PMC9110713 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30355-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Plasmids are used extensively in basic and applied biology. However, design and construction of plasmids, specifically the ones carrying complex genetic information, remains one of the most time-consuming, labor-intensive, and rate-limiting steps in performing sophisticated biological experiments. Here, we report the development of a versatile, robust, automated end-to-end platform named PlasmidMaker that allows error-free construction of plasmids with virtually any sequences in a high throughput manner. This platform consists of a most versatile DNA assembly method using Pyrococcus furiosus Argonaute (PfAgo)-based artificial restriction enzymes, a user-friendly frontend for plasmid design, and a backend that streamlines the workflow and integration with a robotic system. As a proof of concept, we used this platform to generate 101 plasmids from six different species ranging from 5 to 18 kb in size from up to 11 DNA fragments. PlasmidMaker should greatly expand the potential of synthetic biology. Despite their broad utility, design and construction of plasmids remains laborious and time-consuming. Here the authors report a robust, versatile, and automated end-to-end platform that enables scarless construction of virtually any plasmid.
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Keren-Kaplan T, Sarić A, Ghosh S, Williamson CD, Jia R, Li Y, Bonifacino JS. RUFY3 and RUFY4 are ARL8 effectors that promote coupling of endolysosomes to dynein-dynactin. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1506. [PMID: 35314674 PMCID: PMC8938451 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28952-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The small GTPase ARL8 associates with endolysosomes, leading to the recruitment of several effectors that couple endolysosomes to kinesins for anterograde transport along microtubules, and to tethering factors for eventual fusion with other organelles. Herein we report the identification of the RUN- and FYVE-domain-containing proteins RUFY3 and RUFY4 as ARL8 effectors that promote coupling of endolysosomes to dynein-dynactin for retrograde transport along microtubules. Using various methodologies, we find that RUFY3 and RUFY4 interact with both GTP-bound ARL8 and dynein-dynactin. In addition, we show that RUFY3 and RUFY4 promote concentration of endolysosomes in the juxtanuclear area of non-neuronal cells, and drive redistribution of endolysosomes from the axon to the soma in hippocampal neurons. The function of RUFY3 in retrograde transport contributes to the juxtanuclear redistribution of endolysosomes upon cytosol alkalinization. These studies thus identify RUFY3 and RUFY4 as ARL8-dependent, dynein-dynactin adaptors or regulators, and highlight the role of ARL8 in the control of both anterograde and retrograde endolysosome transport.
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- Tal Keren-Kaplan
- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Proteomics Core Facility, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Neurosciences and Cellular and Structural Biology Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Zhao M, García B, Gallo A, Tzanetakis IE, Simón-Mateo C, García JA, Pasin F. Home-made enzymatic premix and Illumina sequencing allow for one-step Gibson assembly and verification of virus infectious clones. PHYTOPATHOLOGY RESEARCH 2020; 2:36. [PMID: 33768973 PMCID: PMC7990137 DOI: 10.1186/s42483-020-00077-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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An unprecedented number of viruses have been discovered by leveraging advances in high-throughput sequencing. Infectious clone technology is a universal approach that facilitates the study of biology and role in disease of viruses. In recent years homology-based cloning methods such as Gibson assembly have been used to generate virus infectious clones. We detail herein the preparation of home-made cloning materials for Gibson assembly. The home-made materials were used in one-step generation of the infectious cDNA clone of a plant RNA virus into a T-DNA binary vector. The clone was verified by a single Illumina reaction and a de novo read assembly approach that required no primer walking, custom primers or reference sequences. Clone infectivity was finally confirmed by Agrobacterium-mediated delivery to host plants. We anticipate that the convenient home-made materials, one-step cloning and Illumina verification strategies described herein will accelerate characterization of viruses and their role in disease development.
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- Mingmin Zhao
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
- College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System, 72701 Fayetteville, USA
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- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
- University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy
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Ding D, Li J, Bai D, Fang H, Lin J, Zhang D. Biosensor-based monitoring of the central metabolic pathway metabolites. Biosens Bioelectron 2020; 167:112456. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Klenov A, Hudak KA. Facile method of curing toxicity in large viral genomes by high-throughput identification and removal of cryptic promoters. J Virol Methods 2020; 287:113993. [PMID: 33068704 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.113993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Infectious plant virus clones are challenging to construct and manipulate due to the presence of cryptic promoter sequences that induce toxicity in bacteria. Common methods to overcome toxicity include intron insertion to interrupt toxic open reading frames and the use of Rhizobium or yeast species that do not recognize the same cryptic promoters. Unfortunately, intron insertion must be attempted on a trial and error basis within full-length clones and may change the infection characteristics of the virus. We have developed a facile method that can detect multiple cryptic bacterial promoters within large virus genomes. These promoters can then be silenced to obtain infectious clones that can be manipulated in E. coli. Our strategy relies on the generation of a viral library which is cloned upstream of either an eGFP open reading frame for low-throughput analysis or chloramphenicol for next generation sequencing. Pokeweed mosaic virus (PkMV), a 9.5 Kb ssRNA potyvirus, was used as a proof of concept. We found 16 putative promoter regions within 150-250 bp library fragments throughout the PkMV genome. 5'RACE allowed identification of the promoter sequence within each fragment, and subsequent silencing produced infectious clones. Our results indicate that cryptic promoters are ubiquitous within large viral genomes and that promoter screening is a desirable first step when constructing a viral clone. Our method can be applied to large plant and animal viruses as well as any DNA sequence for which low level of background transcriptional activity is required.
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Verchot J, Herath V, Urrutia CD, Gayral M, Lyle K, Shires MK, Ong K, Byrne D. Development of a Reverse Genetic System for Studying Rose Rosette Virus in Whole Plants. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2020; 33:1209-1221. [PMID: 32815767 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-04-20-0094-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Rose rosette virus (RRV) is a negative-sense RNA virus with a seven-segmented genome that is enclosed by a double membrane. We constructed an unconventional minireplicon system encoding the antigenomic (ag)RNA1 (encoding the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase [RdRp]), agRNA3 (encoding the nucleocapsid protein [N]), and a modified agRNA5 containing the coding sequence for the iLOV protein in place of the P5 open reading frame (R5-iLOV). iLOV expression from the R5-iLOV template was amplified by activities of the RdRp and N proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. A mutation was introduced into the RdRp catalytic domain and iLOV expression was eliminated, indicating RNA1-encoded polymerase activity drives iLOV expression from the R5-iLOV template. Fluorescence from the replicon was highest at 3 days postinoculation (dpi) and declined at 7 and 13 dpi. Addition of the tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) P19 silencing-suppressor protein prolonged expression until 7 dpi. A full-length infectious clone system was constructed of seven binary plasmids encoding each of the seven genome segments. Agro-delivery of constructs encoding RRV RNAs 1 through 4 or RNAs 1 through 7 to N. benthamiana plants produced systemic infection. Finally, agro-delivery of the full-length RRV infectious clone including all segments produced systemic infection within 60 dpi. This advance opens new opportunities for studying RRV infection biology.
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- Jeanmarie Verchot
- Texas A&M Agrilife Center in Dallas, 17360 Coit Rd, Dallas, TX, U.S.A
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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- Texas A&M Agrilife Center in Dallas, 17360 Coit Rd, Dallas, TX, U.S.A
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
- Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, 20400, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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- Texas A&M Agrilife Center in Dallas, 17360 Coit Rd, Dallas, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Horticulture Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A
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Li X, Li Y, Chen S, Wang J. Construction of stable infectious full-length and eGFP-tagged cDNA clones of Mirabilis crinkle mosaic virus via In-Fusion cloning. Virus Res 2020; 286:198039. [PMID: 32492471 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2020.198039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Mirabilis crinkle mosaic virus (MiCMV) was tentatively classified as a new member of the genus Potyvirus in the family Potyviridae in 2019. However, it was considered to be basella rugose mosaic virus based on the sequence similarity of the coat protein (CP) region. In this study, infectious MiCMV cDNA clones under the control of the 35S promoter were constructed with an In-Fusion cloning method. Systemically infected leaves of Mirabilis jalapa and Nicotiana benthamiana plants inoculated with pMiCMV and pMiCMV-NIb/eGFP had mosaic symptoms by 5 dpi. Infections were confirmed by a western blot analysis, electron microscopy, RT-PCR, and the inoculation of N. benthamiana seedlings with progeny virions. Systemic infections were not observed after Nicotiana glutinosa leaves were similarly inoculated, with eGFP fluorescence detected only in the inoculated leaves. Interestingly, the symptoms induced by pMiCMV and pMiCMV-NIb/eGFP were not similar to those caused by the wild-type MiCMV in Basella rubra plants. Moreover, RT-PCR analyses of B. rubra plants with virus-specific primers (MicpF and MicpR) indicated that a non-target fragment corresponding to the MiCMV CP coding region was amplified. This is the first report of the construction of a biologically active, full-length cDNA copy of the MiCMV RNA genome.
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- Xiaoqin Li
- School of Life Science, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest of Yunnan Province, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
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- School of Life Science, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest of Yunnan Province, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
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- School of Life Science, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest of Yunnan Province, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
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- School of Life Science, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest of Yunnan Province, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
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Bao W, Yan T, Deng X, Wuriyanghan H. Synthesis of Full-Length cDNA Infectious Clones of Soybean Mosaic Virus and Functional Identification of a Key Amino Acid in the Silencing Suppressor Hc-Pro. Viruses 2020; 12:E886. [PMID: 32823665 PMCID: PMC7472419 DOI: 10.3390/v12080886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Soybean mosaic virus (SMV), which belongs to the Potyviridae, causes significant reductions in soybean yield and seed quality. In this study, both tag-free and reporter gene green fluorescent protein (GFP)-containing infectious clones for the SMV N1 strain were constructed by Gibson assembly and with the yeast homologous recombination system, respectively. Both infectious clones are suitable for agroinfiltration on the model host N. benthamiana and show strong infectivity for the natural host soybean and several other legume species. Both infectious clones were seed transmitted and caused typical virus symptoms on seeds and progeny plants. We used the SMV-GFP infectious clone to further investigate the role of key amino acids in the silencing suppressor helper component-proteinase (Hc-Pro). Among twelve amino acid substitution mutants, the co-expression of mutant 2-with an Asparagine→Leucine substitution at position 182 of the FRNK (Phe-Arg-Asn-Lys) motif-attenuated viral symptoms and alleviated the host growth retardation caused by SMV. Moreover, the Hc-Prom2 mutant showed stronger oligomerization than wild-type Hc-Pro. Taken together, the SMV infectious clones will be useful for studies of host-SMV interactions and functional gene characterization in soybeans and related legume species, especially in terms of seed transmission properties. Furthermore, the SMV-GFP infectious clone will also facilitate functional studies of both virus and host genes in an N. benthamiana transient expression system.
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- Wenhua Bao
- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China; (W.B.); (T.Y.); (X.D.)
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China; (W.B.); (T.Y.); (X.D.)
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China; (W.B.); (T.Y.); (X.D.)
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Herbage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China; (W.B.); (T.Y.); (X.D.)
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010070, China
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Abrahamian P, Hammond RW, Hammond J. Plant Virus-Derived Vectors: Applications in Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology. Annu Rev Virol 2020; 7:513-535. [PMID: 32520661 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-010720-054958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Major advances in our understanding of plant viral genome expression strategies and the interaction of a virus with its host for replication and movement, induction of disease, and resistance responses have been made through the generation of infectious molecules from cloned viral sequences. Autonomously replicating viral vectors derived from infectious clones have been exploited to express foreign genes in plants. Applications of virus-based vectors include the production of human/animal therapeutic proteins in plant cells and the specific study of plant biochemical processes, including those that confer resistance to pathogens. Additionally, virus-induced gene silencing, which is RNA mediated and triggered through homology-dependent RNA degradation mechanisms, has been exploited as an efficient method to study the functions of host genes in plants and to deliver small RNAs to insects. New and exciting strategies for vector engineering, delivery, and applications of plant virus-based vectors are the subject of this review.
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- Peter Abrahamian
- Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
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- Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
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- Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, United States National Arboretum, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA;
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Sakaki K, Ohishi K, Shimizu T, Kobayashi I, Mori N, Matsuda K, Tomita T, Watanabe H, Tanaka K, Kuzuyama T, Nishiyama M. A suicide enzyme catalyzes multiple reactions for biotin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:415-422. [DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0461-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Pasin F, Menzel W, Daròs J. Harnessed viruses in the age of metagenomics and synthetic biology: an update on infectious clone assembly and biotechnologies of plant viruses. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2019; 17:1010-1026. [PMID: 30677208 PMCID: PMC6523588 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.13084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Revised: 12/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Recent metagenomic studies have provided an unprecedented wealth of data, which are revolutionizing our understanding of virus diversity. A redrawn landscape highlights viruses as active players in the phytobiome, and surveys have uncovered their positive roles in environmental stress tolerance of plants. Viral infectious clones are key tools for functional characterization of known and newly identified viruses. Knowledge of viruses and their components has been instrumental for the development of modern plant molecular biology and biotechnology. In this review, we provide extensive guidelines built on current synthetic biology advances that streamline infectious clone assembly, thus lessening a major technical constraint of plant virology. The focus is on generation of infectious clones in binary T-DNA vectors, which are delivered efficiently to plants by Agrobacterium. We then summarize recent applications of plant viruses and explore emerging trends in microbiology, bacterial and human virology that, once translated to plant virology, could lead to the development of virus-based gene therapies for ad hoc engineering of plant traits. The systematic characterization of plant virus roles in the phytobiome and next-generation virus-based tools will be indispensable landmarks in the synthetic biology roadmap to better crops.
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- Fabio Pasin
- Agricultural Biotechnology Research CenterAcademia SinicaTaipeiTaiwan
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ‐German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweigGermany
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas‐Universitat Politècnica de València)ValenciaSpain
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Tarquini G, Zaina G, Ermacora P, De Amicis F, Franco-Orozco B, Loi N, Martini M, Bianchi GL, Pagliari L, Firrao G, de Paoli E, Musetti R. Agroinoculation of Grapevine Pinot Gris Virus in tobacco and grapevine provides insights on viral pathogenesis. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214010. [PMID: 30889228 PMCID: PMC6424481 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The Grapevine Pinot Gris disease (GPG-d) is a novel disease characterized by symptoms such as leaf mottling and deformation, which has been recently reported in grapevines, and mostly in Pinot gris. Plants show obvious symptoms at the beginning of the growing season, while during summer symptom recovery frequently occurs, manifesting as symptomless leaves. A new Trichovirus, named Grapevine Pinot gris virus (GPGV), which belongs to the family Betaflexiviridae was found in association with infected plants. The detection of the virus in asymptomatic grapevines raised doubts about disease aetiology. Therefore, the primary target of this work was to set up a reliable system for the study of the disease in controlled conditions, avoiding interfering factor(s) that could affect symptom development. To this end, two clones of the virus, pRI::GPGV-vir and pRI::GPGV-lat, were generated from total RNA collected from one symptomatic and one asymptomatic Pinot gris grapevine, respectively. The clones, which encompassed the entire genome of the virus, were used in Agrobacterium-mediated inoculation of Vitis vinifera and Nicotiana benthamiana plants. All inoculated plants developed symptoms regardless of their inoculum source, demonstrating a correlation between the presence of GPGV and symptomatic manifestations. Four months post inoculum, the grapevines inoculated with the pRI::GPGV-lat clone developed asymptomatic leaves that were still positive to GPGV detection. Three to four weeks later (i.e. ca. 5 months post inoculum), the same phenomenon was observed in the grapevines inoculated with pRI::GPGV-vir. This observation perfectly matches symptom progression in infected field-grown grapevines, suggesting a possible role for plant antiviral mechanisms, such as RNA silencing, in the recovery process.
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- Giulia Tarquini
- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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Tran PT, Fang M, Widyasari K, Kim KH. A plant intron enhances the performance of an infectious clone in planta. J Virol Methods 2019; 265:26-34. [PMID: 30578897 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Although infectious clones are fundamental tools in virology and plant pathology, their efficacy is often reduced by the instability of viral sequences in Escherichia coli. In this study, we constructed an infectious clone of PepMoV (pPepMoV) in a bacterial binary vector (pSNU1); the clone induces symptoms of PepMoV in agroinfiltrated plants. During its modification and maintenance in E. coli, however, the pPepMoV infectious clone was instable in the bacteria. Manipulation of this unstable clone in the bacterial strain DH10B led to the spontaneous formation of a recombined clone with high stability in the bacteria but with reduced infectivity due to an unwanted insertion of an E. coli sequence in the NIa-protease coding region. Replacement of this sequence with a plant intron restored infectivity and maintained plasmid stability. In addition to restoring plasmid growth in both E. coli and Agrobacterium, the presence of the intron in the PepMoV sequence enhanced the accumulation of PepMoV in agroinfiltrated leaves and resulted in symptom induction in upper systemic leaves that was nearly as strong as with PepMoV sap-inoculation. Plant introns have been previously used to stabilize plasmids in E. coli without any effect or with an unexpected lag in symptom development. In contrast, the current results demonstrated the in vivo enhancement of an infectious clone by a plant intron.
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- Phu-Tri Tran
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Pinpointing the l-phenylalanine binding sites of TyrR using biosensors and computer-aided simulation. Biotechnol Lett 2019; 41:401-408. [DOI: 10.1007/s10529-019-02645-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Streamlined generation of plant virus infectious clones using the pLX mini binary vectors. J Virol Methods 2018; 262:48-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Revised: 09/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Rapid Construction of a Replication-Competent Infectious Clone of Human Adenovirus Type 14 by Gibson Assembly. Viruses 2018; 10:v10100568. [PMID: 30340336 PMCID: PMC6213080 DOI: 10.3390/v10100568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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In 1955, Human adenovirus type 14 (HAdV-B14p) was firstly identified in a military trainee diagnosed as acute respiratory disease (ARD) in the Netherlands. Fifty years later, a genomic variant, HAdV-B14p1, re-emerged in the U.S. and caused large and fatal ARD outbreaks. Subsequently, more and more ARD outbreaks occurred in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and China, in both military and civil settings. To generate a tool for the efficient characterization of this new genomic variant, a full-length infectious genomic clone of HAdV-B14 was successfully constructed using one-step Gibson Assembly method in this study. Firstly, the full genome of HAdV-B14p1 strain GZ01, the first HAdV-B14 isolate in China, was assembled into pBR322 plasmid by Gibson Assembly. The pBRAdV14 plasmid, generated by Gibson Assembly, was analyzed and verified by PCR, restriction enzymes digestion and the sequencing. Secondly, viruses were rescued from pBRAdV14-transfected A549 cells. The integrity of the rescued viruses was identified by restriction enzyme analysis. The complete sequence of the infectious clone was further sequenced. No mutation was found in the infectious clone during the construction when compared with the parental virus and pBR322 sequences. The direct immunofluorescence assay indicated the expression of the hexon protein. Finally, typical virions were observed; the one-step growth curves further showed that the DNA replication and viral reproduction efficiency of pBRAd14 derived viruses was similar with that of wild-type HAdV-B14 strain. The successful construction of the replication-competent infectious clone of pBRAdV14 facilitates the development of vaccine and antiviral drugs against HAdV-B14, as well as provides a novel strategy for rapid construction of infectious viral clones for other large-genome DNA viruses.
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Wetzel V, Brault V, Varrelmann M. Production of a Beet chlorosis virus full-length cDNA clone by means of Gibson assembly and analysis of biological properties. J Gen Virol 2018; 99:1522-1527. [PMID: 30215595 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Beet chlorosis virus (genus Polerovirus, family Luteoviridae), which is persistently transmitted by the aphid Myzus persicae, is part of virus yellows in sugar beet and causes interveinal yellowing as well as significant yield loss in Beta vulgaris. To allow reverse genetic studies and replace vector transmission, an infectious cDNA clone under cauliflower mosaic virus 35S control in a binary vector for agrobacterium-mediated infection was constructed using Gibson assembly. Following agroinoculation, the BChV full-length clone was able to induce a systemic infection of the cultivated B. vulgaris. The engineered virus was successfully aphid-transmitted when acquired from infected B. vulgaris and displayed the same host plant spectrum as wild-type virus. This new polerovirus infectious clone is a valuable tool to identify the viral determinants involved in host range and study BChV protein function, and can be used to screen sugar beet for BChV resistance.
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- Veronika Wetzel
- 1Department of Phytopathology, Institute of Sugar Beet Research, 37079 Göttingen, Germany
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- 2SVQV, Université de Strasbourg, INRA, Equipe Virologie Vection, 28 Rue de Herrlisheim, 68000 Colmar, France
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- 1Department of Phytopathology, Institute of Sugar Beet Research, 37079 Göttingen, Germany
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Fixman BB, Babcock IW, Minamide LS, Shaw AE, Oliveira da Silva MI, Runyan AM, Maloney MT, Field JJ, Bamburg JR. Modified Roller Tube Method for Precisely Localized and Repetitive Intermittent Imaging During Long-term Culture of Brain Slices in an Enclosed System. J Vis Exp 2017. [PMID: 29364208 DOI: 10.3791/56436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Cultured rodent brain slices are useful for studying the cellular and molecular behavior of neurons and glia in an environment that maintains many of their normal in vivo interactions. Slices obtained from a variety of transgenic mouse lines or use of viral vectors for expression of fluorescently tagged proteins or reporters in wild type brain slices allow for high-resolution imaging by fluorescence microscopy. Although several methods have been developed for imaging brain slices, combining slice culture with the ability to perform repetitive high-resolution imaging of specific cells in live slices over long time periods has posed problems. This is especially true when viral vectors are used for expression of exogenous proteins since this is best done in a closed system to protect users and prevent cross contamination. Simple modifications made to the roller tube brain slice culture method that allow for repetitive high-resolution imaging of slices over many weeks in an enclosed system are reported. Culturing slices on photoetched coverslips permits the use of fiducial marks to rapidly and precisely reposition the stage to image the identical field over time before and after different treatments. Examples are shown for the use of this method combined with specific neuronal staining and expression to observe changes in hippocampal slice architecture, viral-mediated neuronal expression of fluorescent proteins, and the development of cofilin pathology, which was previously observed in the hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in response to slice treatment with oligomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide.
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- Benjamin B Fixman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University; IBMC-Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, i3S-Instituto de Investigaçãoe Inovação em Saúde, ICBAS, Universidade do Porto
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University; Denali Therapeutics
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience Program, Colorado State University;
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Sun K, Zhao D, Liu Y, Huang C, Zhang W, Li Z. Rapid Construction of Complex Plant RNA Virus Infectious cDNA Clones for Agroinfection Using a Yeast-E. coli-Agrobacterium Shuttle Vector. Viruses 2017; 9:v9110332. [PMID: 29112135 PMCID: PMC5707539 DOI: 10.3390/v9110332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The availability of infectious full-length clone is indispensable for reverse genetics studies of virus biology, pathology and construction of viral vectors. However, for RNA viruses with large genome sizes or those exhibiting inherent cloning difficulties, procedure to generate biologically active complementary DNA (cDNA) clones can be time-consuming or technically challenging. Here we have constructed a yeast-Escherichia coli-Agrobacterium shuttle vector that enables highly efficient homologous recombination in yeast for assembly of Agrobacterium compatible plant virus clones. Using this vector, we show that infectious cDNA clones of a plant negative-stranded RNA virus, sonchus yellow net rhabdovirus, can be rapidly assembled. In addition, one-step assembly of infectious clones of potato virus Y in yeast, either with or without intron, was readily achieved from as many as eight overlapping DNA fragments. More importantly, the recovered yeast plasmids can be transformed directly into Agrobacterium for inoculation, thereby obviating the E. coli cloning steps and associated toxicity issues. This method is rapid, highly efficient and cost-effective and should be readily applicable to a broad range of plant viruses.
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- Kai Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- Yunnan Academy of Tobacco Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tobacco Biotechnological Breeding, National Tobacco Genetic Engineering Research Center, Kunming 650021, China.
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- Yunnan Academy of Tobacco Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tobacco Biotechnological Breeding, National Tobacco Genetic Engineering Research Center, Kunming 650021, China.
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- Sichuan Plant Protection Station, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Becker K, Haldimann K, Selchow P, Reinau LM, Dal Molin M, Sander P. Lipoprotein Glycosylation by Protein- O-Mannosyltransferase (MAB_1122c) Contributes to Low Cell Envelope Permeability and Antibiotic Resistance of Mycobacterium abscessus. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2123. [PMID: 29163413 PMCID: PMC5673659 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Lipoproteins are important components of the mycobacterial cell envelope due to their function in cell wall homeostasis and bacterial virulence. They are post-translationally modified with lipid- and glycosyl-residues in various species and interference with acylation or glycosylation leads to reduced growth and attenuated virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lipoproteins are also expressed in the emerging and highly drug resistant pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus which frequently affects the lungs of patients with chronic pulmonary disease or cystic fibrosis. We investigated post-translational modification, acylation and glycosylation, of heterologously expressed (M. tuberculosis LppX and Mpt83) and endogenous (SodC) lipoproteins at the molecular level in M. abscessus and identified MAB_1122c as protein O-mannosyltransferase (Pmt). Both, heterologous and endogenous lipoproteins carried a characteristic lipid anchor with palmitic acid (C16), palmitoleic acid (C16:1), oleic acid (C18), or tuberculostearic acid (C19) modifications. Multiple hexose-moieties were detected in the N-terminal region of the model lipoproteins expressed in M. abscessus. Conservation of lipoprotein glycosylation in M. tuberculosis and M. abscessus was revealed and points toward the existence of an O-glycosylation motif or other regulatory mechanisms regarding this post-translational modification. Deletion of MAB_1122c prevented glycosylation and affected susceptibility to specific antibiotics which are large or target peptidoglycan synthesis and to lysozyme. Cell envelope permeability of M. abscessus Δpmt was increased and mutant bacteria showed reduced survival inside macrophages. The results provide a link between post-translational modification of lipoproteins and the permeability of the mycobacterial cell envelope which stresses the importance of lipoproteins as components of this complex structure.
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- Katja Becker
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.,National Center for Mycobacteria, Zürich, Switzerland
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Tuo D, Fu L, Shen W, Li X, Zhou P, Yan P. Generation of stable infectious clones of plant viruses by using Rhizobium radiobacter for both cloning and inoculation. Virology 2017; 510:99-103. [PMID: 28715654 PMCID: PMC7173343 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2017.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A novel Rhizobium radiobacter (synonym Agrobacterium tumefaciens)-mediated approach was developed to generate stable infectious clones of plant viruses. This method uses R. radiobacter for both cloning and inoculation of infectious clones, bypassing the requirement of cloning in E. coli to avoid the instability. Only three steps are included in this method: (i) construct viral genome-encoding plasmids in vitro by one-step Gibson assembly; (ii) transform the assembled DNA products into R. radiobacter; (iii) inoculate plants with the R. radiobacter clones containing the viral genome. Stable infectious clones were obtained from two potyviruses papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) and papaya leaf distortion mosaic virus (PLDMV) using this method, whereas attempts utilizing "classical" E. coli cloning system failed repeatedly. This method is simple and efficient, and is promising for a wide application in generation of infectious clones of plant virus, especially for those which are instable in E. coli. A novel approach was developed to generate infectious clones of plant viruses. It uses R. radiobacter for both cloning and inoculation of infectious clones. It bypasses the requirement of cloning in E. coli to avoid the instability. Stable infectious clones of PRSV and PLDMV were obtained using this method.
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- Decai Tuo
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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Boissinot S, Pichon E, Sorin C, Piccini C, Scheidecker D, Ziegler-Graff V, Brault V. Systemic Propagation of a Fluorescent Infectious Clone of a Polerovirus Following Inoculation by Agrobacteria and Aphids. Viruses 2017; 9:E166. [PMID: 28661469 PMCID: PMC5537658 DOI: 10.3390/v9070166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A fluorescent viral clone of the polerovirus Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) was engineered by introducing the Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) sequence into the non-structural domain sequence of the readthrough protein, a minor capsid protein. The resulting recombinant virus, referred to as TuYV-RTGFP, was infectious in several plant species when delivered by agroinoculation and invaded efficiently non-inoculated leaves. As expected for poleroviruses, which infect only phloem cells, the fluorescence emitted by TuYV-RTGFP was restricted to the vasculature of infected plants. In addition, TuYV-RTGFP was aphid transmissible and enabled the observation of the initial sites of infection in the phloem after aphid probing in epidermal cells. The aphid-transmitted virus moved efficiently to leaves distant from the inoculation sites and importantly retained the EGFP sequence in the viral genome. This work reports on the first engineered member in the Luteoviridae family that can be visualized by fluorescence emission in systemic leaves of different plant species after agroinoculation or aphid transmission.
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- Sylvaine Boissinot
- Université de Strasbourg, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SVQV UMR-A 1131, 68000 Colmar, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SVQV UMR-A 1131, 68000 Colmar, France.
- UMR 385 BGPI, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, SupAgro, CIRAD TA-A54/K, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
- Institute of Plant Science Paris Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, INRA, University Paris Diderot, University of Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SVQV UMR-A 1131, 68000 Colmar, France.
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Bijora T, Blawid R, Costa DKT, Aragão FJL, Souto ER, Nagata T. Construction of an agroinfectious clone of bean rugose mosaic virus using Gibson Assembly. Virus Genes 2017; 53:495-499. [PMID: 28315991 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-017-1446-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
Construction of agroinfectious viral clones usually requires many steps of cloning and sub-cloning and also a binary vector, which makes the process laborious, time-consuming, and frequently susceptible to some degree of plasmid instability. Nowadays, novel methods have been applied to the assembly of infectious viral clones, and here we have applied isothermal, single-step Gibson Assembly (GA) to construct an agroinfectious clone of Bean rugose mosaic virus (BRMV) using a small binary vector. The procedure has drastically reduced the cloning steps, and BRMV could be recovered from agroinfiltrated common bean twenty days after inoculation, indicating that the infectious clone could spread in the plant tissues and efficiently generate a systemic infection. The virus was also recovered from leaves of common bean and soybean cultivars mechanically inoculated with infectious clone two weeks after inoculation, confirming the efficiency of GA cloning procedure to produce the first BRMV agroinfectious clone to bean and soybean.
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- Taise Bijora
- Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 5790 Av. Colombo, Maringá, PR, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 5790 Av. Colombo, Maringá, PR, Brazil.
- Department of Agronomy, Center of Agricultural Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, 87020-900, Brazil.
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- Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
- Department of Cellular Biology, Biological Sciences institute, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil.
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Tuo D, Shen W, Yan P, Li X, Zhou P. Rapid Construction of Stable Infectious Full-Length cDNA Clone of Papaya Leaf Distortion Mosaic Virus Using In-Fusion Cloning. Viruses 2015; 7:6241-50. [PMID: 26633465 PMCID: PMC4690859 DOI: 10.3390/v7122935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Revised: 11/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Papaya leaf distortion mosaic virus (PLDMV) is becoming a threat to papaya and transgenic papaya resistant to the related pathogen, papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). The generation of infectious viral clones is an essential step for reverse-genetics studies of viral gene function and cross-protection. In this study, a sequence- and ligation-independent cloning system, the In-Fusion® Cloning Kit (Clontech, Mountain View, CA, USA), was used to construct intron-less or intron-containing full-length cDNA clones of the isolate PLDMV-DF, with the simultaneous scarless assembly of multiple viral and intron fragments into a plasmid vector in a single reaction. The intron-containing full-length cDNA clone of PLDMV-DF was stably propagated in Escherichia coli.In vitro intron-containing transcripts were processed and spliced into biologically active intron-less transcripts following mechanical inoculation and then initiated systemic infections in Carica papaya L. seedlings, which developed similar symptoms to those caused by the wild-type virus. However, no infectivity was detected when the plants were inoculated with RNA transcripts from the intron-less construct because the instability of the viral cDNA clone in bacterial cells caused a non-sense or deletion mutation of the genomic sequence of PLDMV-DF. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the construction of an infectious full-length cDNA clone of PLDMV and the splicing of intron-containing transcripts following mechanical inoculation. In-Fusion cloning shortens the construction time from months to days. Therefore, it is a faster, more flexible, and more efficient method than the traditional multistep restriction enzyme-mediated subcloning procedure.
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- Decai Tuo
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571101, China.
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