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Shahmohammadi N, Khan F, Jin G, Kwon M, Lee D, Kim Y. Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Suppresses the Antiviral Response of the Insect Vector, Frankliniella occidentalis, by Elevating an Immunosuppressive C18 Oxylipin Level Using Its Virulent Factor, NSs. Cells 2024; 13:1377. [PMID: 39195265 DOI: 10.3390/cells13161377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2024] [Revised: 08/13/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 08/29/2024] Open
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Orthotospovirus tomatomaculae (tomato spotted wilt virus, TSWV) is transmitted by the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis. Epoxyoctadecamonoenoic acids (EpOMEs) function as immune-suppressive factors, particularly in insects infected by viral pathogens. These oxylipins are produced by cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs) and are degraded by soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). In this study, we tested the hypothesis that TSWV modulates the EpOME level in the thrips to suppress antiviral responses and enhance its replication. TSWV infection significantly elevated both 9,10-EpOME and 12,13-EpOME levels. Following TSWV infection, the larvae displayed apoptosis in the midgut along with the upregulated expression of four caspase genes. However, the addition of EpOME to the viral treatment notably reduced apoptosis and downregulated caspase gene expressions, which led to a marked increase in TSWV titers. The CYP and sEH genes of F. occidentalis were identified, and their expression manipulation using RNA interference (RNAi) treatments led to significant alternations in the insect's immune responses and TSWV viral titers. To ascertain which viral factor influences the host EpOME levels, specialized RNAi treatments targeting genes encoded by TSWV were administered to larvae infected with TSWV. These treatments demonstrated that NSS expression is pivotal in manipulating the genes involved in EpOME metabolism. These results indicate that NSs of TSWV are crucially linked with the elevation of host insect EpOME levels and play a key role in suppressing the antiviral responses of F. occidentalis.
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- Niayesh Shahmohammadi
- Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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- Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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- Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong 36729, Republic of Korea
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Oliver JE, Rotenberg D, Agosto-Shaw K, McInnes HA, Lahre KA, Mulot M, Adkins S, Whitfield AE. Multigenic Hairpin Transgenes in Tomato Confer Resistance to Multiple Orthotospoviruses Including Sw-5 Resistance-Breaking Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2024; 114:1137-1149. [PMID: 37856697 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-07-23-0256-kc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and related thrips-borne orthotospoviruses are a threat to food and ornamental crops. Orthotospoviruses have the capacity for rapid genetic change by genome segment reassortment and mutation. Genetic resistance is one of the most effective strategies for managing orthotospoviruses, but there are multiple examples of resistance gene breakdown. Our goal was to develop effective multigenic, broad-spectrum resistance to TSWV and other orthotospoviruses. The most conserved sequences for each open reading frame (ORF) of the TSWV genome were identified, and comparison with other orthotospoviruses revealed sequence conservation within virus clades; some overlapped with domains with well-documented biological functions. We made six hairpin constructs, each of which incorporated sequences matching portions of all five ORFs. Tomato plants expressing the hairpin transgene were challenged with TSWV by thrips and leaf-rub inoculation, and four constructs provided strong protection against TSWV in foliage and fruit. To determine if the hairpin constructs provided protection against other emerging orthotospoviruses, we challenged the plants with tomato chlorotic spot virus and resistance-breaking TSWV and found that the same constructs also provided resistance to these related viruses. Antiviral hairpin constructs are an effective way to protect plants from multiple orthotospoviruses and are an important strategy in the fight against resistance-breaking TSWV and emerging viruses. Targeting of all five viral ORFs is expected to increase the durability of resistance, and combining them with other resistance genes could further extend the utility of this disease control strategy. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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- Jonathan E Oliver
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service-USHRL, Fort Pierce, FL 34945
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
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Karlin DG. WIV, a protein domain found in a wide number of arthropod viruses, which probably facilitates infection. J Gen Virol 2024; 105. [PMID: 38193819 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001948] [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] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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The most powerful approach to detect distant homologues of a protein is based on structure prediction and comparison. Yet this approach is still inapplicable to many viral proteins. Therefore, we applied a powerful sequence-based procedure to identify distant homologues of viral proteins. It relies on three principles: (1) traces of sequence similarity can persist beyond the significance cutoff of homology detection programmes; (2) candidate homologues can be identified among proteins with weak sequence similarity to the query by using 'contextual' information, e.g. taxonomy or type of host infected; (3) these candidate homologues can be validated using highly sensitive profile-profile comparison. As a test case, this approach was applied to a protein without known homologues, encoded by ORF4 of Lake Sinai viruses (which infect bees). We discovered that the ORF4 protein contains a domain that has homologues in proteins from >20 taxa of viruses infecting arthropods. We called this domain 'widespread, intriguing, versatile' (WIV), because it is found in proteins with a wide variety of functions and within varied domain contexts. For example, WIV is found in the NSs protein of tospoviruses, a global threat to food security, which infect plants as well as their arthropod vectors; in the RNA2 ORF1-encoded protein of chronic bee paralysis virus, a widespread virus of bees; and in various proteins of cypoviruses, which infect the silkworm Bombyx mori. Structural modelling with AlphaFold indicated that the WIV domain has a previously unknown fold, and bibliographical evidence suggests that it facilitates infection of arthropods.
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- David G Karlin
- Division Phytomedicine, Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lentzeallee 55/57, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
- Independent Researcher, Marseille, France
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Kim CY, Kim Y. In vivo transient expression of a viral silencing suppressor, NSs, derived from tomato spotted wilt virus decreases insect RNAi efficiencies. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 112:e21982. [PMID: 36335566 DOI: 10.1002/arch.21982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Tomato spotted wilt virus is a single-stranded RNA virus and causes a serious plant disease. Its horizontal transmission depends on some thrips species including Frankliniella occidentalis. Its genome encodes a nonstructural protein, nonstructural (NSs), which acts as a silencing suppressor and plays a crucial role in the pathogenicity by defending antiviral immunity using RNA interference (RNAi) in plant hosts. However, its physiological function as a silencing suppressor was not well clarified in insect vectors. This study assessed any change of RNAi efficiencies in two other insect systems by NSs expression. To this end, the gene was cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector and transiently expressed in two different insect species via in vivo transient expression (IVTE). After feeding the recombinant construct to non-viruliferous F. occidentalis, NSs expression was observed for over 2 days in the thrips. Under this expression of NSs, thrips were rescued from a treatment of a toxic double stranded RNA specific to v-ATPase. Interestingly, the thrips treated with IVTE significantly suppressed the expression of RNAi machinery genes such as SID and Dicer-2. The recombinant vector expressing NSs was injected to a non-vector insect, Spodoptera exigua, larvae. The larvae expressing NSs by the IVTE were highly susceptible to an infection of a RNA virus called iflavirus. These suggest that NSs acts as a silencing suppressor in insects and would be used for a synergist for RNA pathogens to control insect pests.
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- Chul-Young Kim
- Department of Plant Medicals, College of Life Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, Korea
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- Department of Plant Medicals, College of Life Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, Korea
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Zhai Y, Roy A, Peng H, Mullendore DL, Kaur G, Mandal B, Mukherjee SK, Pappu HR. Identification and Functional Analysis of Four RNA Silencing Suppressors in Begomovirus Croton Yellow Vein Mosaic Virus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 12:768800. [PMID: 35069624 PMCID: PMC8777275 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.768800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Croton yellow vein mosaic virus (CYVMV), a species in the genus Begomovirus, is a prolific monopartite begomovirus in the Indian sub-continent. CYVMV infects multiple crop plants to cause leaf curl disease. Plants have developed host RNA silencing mechanisms to defend the threat of viruses, including CYVMV. We characterized four RNA silencing suppressors, namely, V2, C2, and C4 encoded by CYVMV and betasatellite-encoded C1 protein (βC1) encoded by the cognate betasatellite, croton yellow vein betasatellite (CroYVMB). Their silencing suppressor functions were verified by the ability of restoring the β-glucuronidase (GUS) activity suppressed by RNA silencing. We showed here for the first time that V2 was capable of self-interacting, as well as interacting with the V1 protein, and could be translocalized to the plasmodesmata in the presence of CYVMV. The knockout of either V2 or V1 impaired the intercellular mobility of CYVMV, indicating their novel coordinated roles in the cell-to-cell movement of the virus. As pathogenicity determinants, each of V2, C2, and C4 could induce typical leaf curl symptoms in Nicotiana benthamiana plants even under transient expression. Interestingly, the transcripts and proteins of all four suppressors could be detected in the systemically infected leaves with no correlation to symptom induction. Overall, our work identifies four silencing suppressors encoded by CYVMV and its cognate betasatellite and reveals their subcellular localizations, interaction behavior, and roles in symptom induction and intercellular virus movement.
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- Ying Zhai
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Franceschi Microscopy and Imaging Center, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Advanced Center for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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Chinnaiah S, Varagur Ganesan M, Sevugapperumal N, Mariappan S, Uthandi S, Perumal R. A sequel study on the occurrence of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) in cut-chrysanthemum by DAS-ELISA using recombinant nucleocapsid protein to produce polyclonal antiserum. J Virol Methods 2021; 300:114410. [PMID: 34896121 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) belonging to the genus Orthotospovirus, family Tospoviridae, causes severe necrotic disease in field crops and horticultural crops, resulting in considerable yield loss worldwide. The development of protein-based diagnostics is essential to track the virus transmission and prevent its spread in vegetatively propagated crops such as ornamentals. In this study, nucleocapsid (N) gene of TSWV was cloned in pET 28 a (+) expression vector. Expression of the 32 kDa recombinant TSWV-N protein was induced in BL21 (DE3) cells using 1 mM of Isopropyl β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), and was confirmed through SDS-PAGE and Western blot by fluorescent-labeled secondary antibody. The bacterial cells expressed recombinant TSWV-N protein up to a concentration of 9.48 μg/mL. The purified protein was used for immunization of a rabbit to produce specific polyclonal antiserum. The TSWV antiserum was conjugated with the enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Double Antibody Sandwich-Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (DAS-ELISA) was developed and validated against TSWV infected hosts. This antiserum specifically reacted with recombinant N protein as well as TSWV infected hosts, but not with groundnut bud necrosis orthotospovirus (GBNV) as well as capsicum chlorosis orthotospovirus (CaCV) infecting tomato and chilli plants. The coating antibody at 1 μg/mL concentration and 1:500 dilution of enzyme conjugate were found to be effective and economical in the detection of recombinant N protein of TSWV and the virus present naturally in the infected hosts. Using standardized DAS-ELISA protocol, the TSWV titer also was quantified in artificially inoculated assay hosts. Among 11 hosts tested, higher virus titer was recorded in Nicotiana tabacum (0.270 μg/100 μL), followed by Impatiens balsamiana (0.185 μg/100 μL) and Dahlia pinnata at a low virus tire of 0.083 μg/100 μL. The diagnostic reagents and protocol (DAS-ELISA) are further validated by detecting the infection of TSWV in chrysanthemum stem cuttings from six different nurseries in the hill stations of Tamil Nadu, India. The DAS-ELISA assay experimented on six varieties from four different nurseries revealed that the Mum Yellow variety had a higher percentage of TSWV infection (36 %), which was followed by the Mum White variety (33 %); both collected from Kotagiri Nursery. The same variety exhibited a higher virus titer by DAS-ELISA, an A405 value range of 0.733 (̴ 0.115 μg) and 0.711 (̴ 0.111 μg) respectively, and a total of 27 % of TSWV infection was confirmed by screening 800 stem cuttings by DAS-ELISA. The presence of TSWV was also detected in 54 (6.75 %) asymptomatic stem cuttings from different locations, and the A405 value ranged from 0.325 to 0.468. (̴ 0.044-0.069 μg/100 μL); this is the first reported development of immune-based diagnostics for TSWV in India. This protocol and diagnostics will be highly useful for quarantine purposes while trading large quantities of planting materials.
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- Senthilraja Chinnaiah
- Department of Plant Protection, Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam, 625 604, India.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, India.
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- Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, India.
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- Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, India.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, India.
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Current Status and Potential of RNA Interference for the Management of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus and Thrips Vectors. Pathogens 2021; 10:pathogens10030320. [PMID: 33803131 PMCID: PMC8001667 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10030320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Revised: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is the type member of the genus Orthotospovirus in the family Tospoviridae and order Bunyavirales. TSWV, transmitted by several species of thrips, causes significant disease losses to agronomic and horticultural crops worldwide, impacting both the yield and quality of the produce. Management strategies include growing virus-resistant cultivars, cultural practices, and managing thrips vectors through pesticide application. However, numerous studies have reported that TSWV isolates can overcome host-plant resistance, while thrips are developing resistance to pesticides that were once effective. RNA interference (RNAi) offers a means of host defence by using double-stranded (ds) RNA to initiate gene silencing against invading viruses. However, adoption of this approach requires production and use of transgenic plants and thus limits the practical application of RNAi against TSWV and other viruses. To fully utilize the potential of RNAi for virus management at the field level, new and novel approaches are needed. In this review, we summarize RNAi and highlight the potential of topical or exogenous application of RNAi triggers for managing TSWV and thrips vectors.
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Identification and Characterization of Plant-Interacting Targets of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Silencing Suppressor. Pathogens 2021; 10:pathogens10010027. [PMID: 33401462 PMCID: PMC7823891 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10010027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV; species Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus) is an economically important plant virus that infects multiple horticultural crops on a global scale. TSWV encodes a non-structural protein NSs that acts as a suppressor of host RNA silencing machinery during infection. Despite extensive structural and functional analyses having been carried out on TSWV NSs, its protein-interacting targets in host plants are still largely unknown. Here, we systemically investigated NSs-interacting proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana via affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP-MS) analysis. Forty-three TSWV NSs-interacting candidates were identified in N. benthamiana. Gene Ontology (GO) and protein–protein interaction (PPI) network analyses were carried out on their closest homologs in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) and Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). The results showed that NSs preferentially interacts with plant defense-related proteins such as calmodulin (CaM), importin, carbonic anhydrase and two heat shock proteins (HSPs): HSP70 and HSP90. As two major nodes in the PPI network, CaM and importin subunit α were selected for the further verification of their interactions with NSs via yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) screening. Our work suggests that the downstream signaling, transportation and/or metabolic pathways of host-NSs-interacting proteins may play critical roles in NSs-facilitated TSWV infection.
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Zhai Y, Peng H, Neff MM, Pappu HR. Emerging Molecular Links Between Plant Photomorphogenesis and Virus Resistance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:920. [PMID: 32695129 PMCID: PMC7338571 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Photomorphogenesis refers to photoreceptor-mediated morphological changes in plant development that are triggered by light. Multiple photoreceptors and transcription factors (TFs) are involved in the molecular regulation of photomorphogenesis. Likewise, light can also modulate the outcome of plant-virus interactions since both photosynthesis and many viral infection events occur in the chloroplast. Despite the apparent association between photosynthesis and virus infection, little is known about whether there are also interplays between photomorphogenesis and plant virus resistance. Recent research suggests that plant-virus interactions are potentially regulated by several photoreceptors and photomorphogenesis regulators, including phytochromes A and B (PHYA and PHYB), cryptochromes 2 (CRY2), phototropin 2 (PHOT2), the photomorphogenesis repressor constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 (COP1), the NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC)-family TF ATAF2, the Aux/IAA protein phytochrome-associated protein 1 (PAP1), the homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) TF HAT1, and the core circadian clock component circadian clock associated 1 (CCA1). Particularly, the plant growth promoting brassinosteroid (BR) hormones play critical roles in integrating the regulatory pathways of plant photomorphogenesis and viral defense. Here, we summarize the current understanding of molecular mechanisms linking plant photomorphogenesis and defense against viruses, which represents an emerging interdisciplinary research topic in both molecular plant biology and virology.
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- Ying Zhai
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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Huang CH, Foo MH, Raja JAJ, Tan YR, Lin TT, Lin SS, Yeh SD. A Conserved Helix in the C-Terminal Region of Watermelon Silver Mottle Virus Nonstructural Protein S Is Imperative For Protein Stability Affecting Self-Interaction, RNA Silencing Suppression, and Pathogenicity. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2020; 33:637-652. [PMID: 31935338 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-10-19-0279-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In orthotospovirus, the nonstructural protein S (NSs) is the RNA-silencing suppressor (RSS) and pathogenicity determinant. Here, we demonstrate that a putative α-helix, designated H8, spanning amino acids 338 to 369 of the C-terminal region of the NSs protein, is crucial for self-interaction of watermelon silver mottle virus NSs protein and that the H8 affects RSS function. Co-immunoprecipitation, yeast two-hybrid, and bimolecular fluorescence complementation analyses revealed that the triple point mutation (TPM) of H8 amino acids Y338A, H350A, and F353A resulted in NSs protein self-interaction dysfunction. Transient expression of H8-deleted (ΔH8) and TPM NSs proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana plants by agroinfitration indicated that these proteins have weaker RSS activity and are far less stable than wild-type (WT) NSs. However, an electrophoretic mobility assay revealed that small interfering RNA (siRNA) binding ability of TPM NSs protein is not compromised. The pathogenicity assay of WT NSs protein expressed by the attenuated turnip mosaic virus vector restored severe symptoms in recombinant-infected N. benthamiana plants but not for ΔH8 or TPM proteins. Taken together, we conclude that the H8 helix in the C-terminal region of NSs protein is crucial for stabilizing NSs protein through self-interaction to maintain normal functions of RSS and pathogenicity, but not for NSs-siRNA binding activity.
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- Chung-Hao Huang
- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University
- Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Advanced Plant Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University
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Li C, Ito M, Kasajima I, Yoshikawa N. Estimation of the functions of viral RNA silencing suppressors by apple latent spherical virus vector. Virus Genes 2020; 56:67-77. [PMID: 31646461 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-019-01708-5] [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: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Apple latent spherical virus (ALSV) is a latent virus with wide host range of plant species. In the present study, we prepared ALSV vectors expressing RNA silencing suppressors (RSSs) from eight plant viruses: P19 of carnation Italian ring spot virus (tombusvirus), 2b of peanut stunt virus (cucumovirus), NSs of tomato spotted wilt virus (tospovirus), HC-Pro of bean yellow mosaic virus (potyvirus), γb of barley stripe mosaic virus (hordeivirus), P15 of peanut clump virus (pecluvirus), P1 of rice yellow mottle virus (sobemovirus), or P21 of beet yellows virus (closterovirus). These vectors were inoculated to Nicotiana benthamiana to investigate the effects of RSSs on the virulence and accumulation of ALSV. Among the vectors, ALSV expressing NSs (ALSV-NSs) developed severe mosaic symptoms in newly developed leaves followed by plant death. Infection of ALSV-γb induced characteristic concentric ringspot symptoms on leaves, and plants infected with ALSV-HC-Pro showed mosaic and dwarf symptoms. Infection of the other five ALSV vectors did not show symptoms. ELISA and immunoblot assay indicated that virus titer increased in leaves infected with ALSV-NSs, γb, HC-Pro, or P19. RT-qPCR indicated that the amount of ALSV in plants infected with ALSV-NSs was increased by approximately 45 times compared with that of wtALSV without expression of any RSS. When ALSV-P19, NSs, or HC-Pro was inoculated to Cucumis sativus plants, none of these ALSV vectors induced symptoms, but accumulation of ALSV in plants infected with ALSV-NSs was increased, suggesting that functions of RSSs on virulence and accumulation of ALSV depend on host species.
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- Chunjiang Li
- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan
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- Agri-Innovation Center, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan.
- Agri-Innovation Center, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan.
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Zhai Y, Peng H, Neff MM, Pappu HR. Putative Auxin and Light Responsive Promoter Elements From the Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus Genome, When Expressed as cDNA, Are Functional in Arabidopsis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:804. [PMID: 31316531 PMCID: PMC6611158 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Members of the virus order Bunyavirales cause serious diseases in animals, humans and plants. Family Tospoviridae in this order contains only one genus Orthotospovirus, and members in this genus exclusively infect plants. Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (TSWV) is considered one of the most economically important plants viruses. Little is known about the regulatory elements in the TSWV genome. Here we show that, when in the cDNA form, the 5'-upstream region of the TSWV-coded GN/GC gene (pGN/GC) possesses putative cis-regulatory elements, including an auxin responsive element (AuxRE) for binding of auxin response factors (ARFs), as well as a circadian clock-associated 1 (CCA1) protein binding site (CBS). Due to the lack of a reverse genetics system, we verified the functionality of these elements in Arabidopsis. pGN/GC showed light-suppressive promoter activity in transgenic Arabidopsis, and mutation in the CBS was sufficient to switch the activity to light inducible. Additionally, exogenous auxin treatments repressed the promoter activity of both wild type and CBS-mutated pGN/GC. Mutation in AuxRE in both promoters abolished their sensitivity to auxin. As transcriptional repressors, both CCA1 and ARF2 were able to bind to pGN/GC directly. To our knowledge, this is the first report that a 5'-terminal sequence of an RNA virus has light-and hormone-responsive promoter activities when expressed as cDNA in host plant's nuclear background. Our findings suggest new clues on the possible origin, evolution and function of the TSWV genomic sequence and its non-coding regions.
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- Ying Zhai
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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Prasad A, Sharma N, Muthamilarasan M, Rana S, Prasad M. Recent advances in small RNA mediated plant-virus interactions. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2019; 39:587-601. [PMID: 30947560 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2019.1597830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Small RNAs (sRNA) are reported to play pivotal roles in the epigenetic and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression during growth, development, and stress response in plants. Recently, the involvement of two different classes of sRNAs namely, miRNAs (microRNAs), and siRNAs (small interfering RNAs) in biotic stress response has been underlined. Notably, during virus infection, these sRNAs deploy antiviral defense by regulating the gene expression of the modulators of host defense pathways. As a counter defense, viruses have evolved strategic pathways involving the production of suppressors that interfere with the host silencing machinery. This molecular arms race between the sophisticated gene regulatory mechanism of host plants fine-tuned by sRNAs and the defense response exhibited by the virus has gained much attention among the researchers. So far, several reports have been published showing the mechanistic insights on sRNA-regulated defense mechanism in response to virus infection in several crop plants. In this context, our review enumerates the molecular mechanisms underlying host immunity against viruses mediated by sRNAs, the counter defense strategies employed by viruses to surpass this immunogenic response and the advances made in our understanding of plant-virus interactions. Altogether, the report would be insightful for the researchers working to decode the sRNA-mediated defense response in crop plants challenged with virus infection.
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- Ashish Prasad
- a National Institute of Plant Genome Research , New Delhi , India
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- a National Institute of Plant Genome Research , New Delhi , India
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- a National Institute of Plant Genome Research , New Delhi , India.,b ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology , New Delhi , India
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- a National Institute of Plant Genome Research , New Delhi , India.,b ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology , New Delhi , India
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- a National Institute of Plant Genome Research , New Delhi , India
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Olaya C, Adhikari B, Raikhy G, Cheng J, Pappu HR. Identification and localization of Tospovirus genus-wide conserved residues in 3D models of the nucleocapsid and the silencing suppressor proteins. Virol J 2019; 16:7. [PMID: 30634979 PMCID: PMC6330412 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-018-1106-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Tospoviruses (genus Tospovirus, family Peribunyaviridae, order Bunyavirales) cause significant losses to a wide range of agronomic and horticultural crops worldwide. Identification and characterization of specific sequences and motifs that are critical for virus infection and pathogenicity could provide useful insights and targets for engineering virus resistance that is potentially both broad spectrum and durable. Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), the most prolific member of the group, was used to better understand the structure-function relationships of the nucleocapsid gene (N), and the silencing suppressor gene (NSs), coded by the TSWV small RNA. METHODS Using a global collection of orthotospoviral sequences, several amino acids that were conserved across the genus and the potential location of these conserved amino acid motifs in these proteins was determined. We used state of the art 3D modeling algorithms, MULTICOM-CLUSTER, MULTICOM-CONSTRUCT, MULTICOM-NOVEL, I-TASSER, ROSETTA and CONFOLD to predict the secondary and tertiary structures of the N and the NSs proteins. RESULTS We identified nine amino acid residues in the N protein among 31 known tospoviral species, and ten amino acid residues in NSs protein among 27 tospoviral species that were conserved across the genus. For the N protein, all three algorithms gave nearly identical tertiary models. While the conserved residues were distributed throughout the protein on a linear scale, at the tertiary level, three residues were consistently located in the coil in all the models. For NSs protein models, there was no agreement among the three algorithms. However, with respect to the localization of the conserved motifs, G18 was consistently located in coil, while H115 was localized in the coil in three models. CONCLUSIONS This is the first report of predicting the 3D structure of any tospoviral NSs protein and revealed a consistent location for two of the ten conserved residues. The modelers used gave accurate prediction for N protein allowing the localization of the conserved residues. Results form the basis for further work on the structure-function relationships of tospoviral proteins and could be useful in developing novel virus control strategies targeting the conserved residues.
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- Cristian Olaya
- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University, Shreverport, LA, 71101, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA.
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Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus NSs Protein Supports Infection and Systemic Movement of a Potyvirus and Is a Symptom Determinant. Viruses 2018. [PMID: 29538326 PMCID: PMC5869522 DOI: 10.3390/v10030129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Plant viruses are inducers and targets of antiviral RNA silencing. To condition susceptibility, most plant viruses encode silencing suppressor proteins that interfere with antiviral RNA silencing. The NSs protein is an RNA silencing suppressor in orthotospoviruses, such as the tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). The mechanism of RNA silencing suppression by NSs and its role in virus infection and movement are poorly understood. Here, we cloned and tagged TSWV NSs and expressed it from a GFP-tagged turnip mosaic virus (TuMV-GFP) carrying either a wild-type or suppressor-deficient (AS9) helper component proteinase (HC-Pro). When expressed in cis, NSs restored pathogenicity and promoted systemic infection of suppressor-deficient TuMV-AS9-GFP in Nicotiana benthamiana and Arabidopsis thaliana. Inactivating mutations were introduced in NSs RNA-binding domain one. A genetic analysis with active and suppressor-deficient NSs, in combination with wild-type and mutant plants lacking essential components of the RNA silencing machinery, showed that the NSs insert is stable when expressed from a potyvirus. NSs can functionally replace potyviral HC-Pro, condition virus susceptibility, and promote systemic infection and symptom development by suppressing antiviral RNA silencing through a mechanism that partially overlaps that of potyviral HC-Pro. The results presented provide new insight into the mechanism of silencing suppression by NSs and its effect on virus infection.
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Singh A, Permar V, Jain RK, Goswami S, Kumar RR, Canto T, Palukaitis P, Praveen S. Induction of cell death by tospoviral protein NSs and the motif critical for cell death does not control RNA silencing suppression activity. Virology 2017; 508:108-117. [PMID: 28527340 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2017.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Groundnut bud necrosis virus induces necrotic symptoms in different hosts. Previous studies showed reactive oxygen species-mediated programmed cell death (PCD) resulted in necrotic symptoms. Transgenic expression of viral protein NSs mimics viral symptoms. Here, we showed a role for NSs in influencing oxidative burst in the cell, by analyzing H2O2 accumulation, activities of antioxidant enzymes and expression levels of vacuolar processing enzymes, H2O2-responsive microRNA 319a.2 plus its possible target metacaspase-8. The role of NSs in PCD, was shown using two NSs mutants: one in the Trp/GH3 motif (a homologue of pro-apototic domain) (NSsS189R) and the other in a non-Trp/GH3 motif (NSsL172R). Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) expressing NSsS189R enhanced the PCD response, but not TRV-NSsL172R, while RNA silencing suppression activity was lost in TRV-NSsL172R, but not in TRV-NSsS189R. Therefore, we propose dual roles of NSs in RNA silencing suppression and induction of cell death, controlled by different motifs.
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- Ajeet Singh
- Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CIB, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Horticultural Science, Seoul Women's University, Seoul 01797, South Korea
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- Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India.
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The genus Tospovirus is unique within the family Bunyaviridae in that it is made up of viruses that infect plants. Initially documented over 100 years ago, tospoviruses have become increasingly important worldwide since the 1980s due to the spread of the important insect vector Frankliniella occidentalis and the discovery of new viruses. As a result, tospoviruses are now recognized globally as emerging agricultural diseases. Tospoviruses and their vectors, thrips species in the order Thysanoptera, represent a major problem for agricultural and ornamental crops that must be managed to avoid devastating losses. In recent years, the number of recognized species in the genus has increased rapidly, and our knowledge of the molecular interactions of tospoviruses with their host plants and vectors has expanded. In this review, we present an overview of the genus Tospovirus with particular emphasis on new understandings of the molecular plant-virus and vector-virus interactions as well as relationships among genus members.
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- J E Oliver
- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506;
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506;
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Ocampo Ocampo T, Gabriel Peralta SM, Bacheller N, Uiterwaal S, Knapp A, Hennen A, Ochoa-Martinez DL, Garcia-Ruiz H. Antiviral RNA silencing suppression activity of Tomato spotted wilt virus NSs protein. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH 2016; 15:gmr8625. [PMID: 27323202 DOI: 10.4238/gmr.15028625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In addition to regulating gene expression, RNA silencing is an essential antiviral defense system in plants. Triggered by double-stranded RNA, silencing results in degradation or translational repression of target transcripts. Viruses are inducers and targets of RNA silencing. To condition susceptibility, most plant viruses encode silencing suppressors that interfere with this process, such as the Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) NSs protein. The mechanism by which NSs suppresses RNA silencing and its role in viral infection and movement remain to be determined. We cloned NSs from the Hawaii isolate of TSWV and using two independent assays show for the first time that this protein restored pathogenicity and supported the formation of local infection foci by suppressor-deficient Turnip mosaic virus and Turnip crinkle virus. Demonstrating the suppression of RNA silencing directed against heterologous viruses establishes the foundation to determine the means used by NSs to block this antiviral process.
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- T Ocampo Ocampo
- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.,Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México, México
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.,Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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Mitter N, Zhai Y, Bai AX, Chua K, Eid S, Constantin M, Mitchell R, Pappu HR. Evaluation and identification of candidate genes for artificial microRNA-mediated resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus. Virus Res 2016; 211:151-8. [PMID: 26454192 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2015] [Revised: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is an economically important viral pathogen of a wide range of field and horticultural crops. We developed an artificial microRNA (amiRNA) strategy against TSWV, targeting the nucleoprotein (N) and silencing suppressor (NSs) genes. The amiRNA constructs replaced the natural miRNA in a shortened Arabidopsis 173-nucleotide (nt) miR159a precursor backbone (athmiR159a) without the stem base extending beyond the miR/miR* duplex. Further, each amiRNA was modified to contain a mismatch (wobble) sequence at nucleotide position 12 and 13 on the complementary strand amiRNA*, mimicking the endogenous miR159a sequence structure. Transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana demonstrated that the introduction of a wobble sequence did not alter amiRNA expression levels. Following challenge inoculation with TSWV, plants expressing N-specific amiRNAs with or without the wobble remained asymptomatic and were negative for TSWV by ELISA. In contrast, plants expressing the NSs-specific amiRNAs were symptomatic and accumulated high levels of TSWV. Similar findings were obtained in stably transformed Nicotiana tabacum plants. Our results show that a shortened 173-nt athmiR159a backbone is sufficient to express amiRNAs and that the presence of mismatch at position 12-13 does not influence amiRNA expression or conferring of resistance. We also show that selection of target gene and positional effect are critical in amiRNA-based approach for introducing resistance. These findings open the possibility of employing the amiRNA approach for broad-spectrum resistance to tospoviruses as well as other viruses.
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- Neena Mitter
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, University of Queensland, Ritchie Building, Research Road, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
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Margaria P, Rosa C. First complete genome sequence of a tomato spotted wilt virus isolate from the United States and its relationship to other TSWV isolates of different geographic origin. Arch Virol 2015; 160:2915-20. [PMID: 26329831 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-015-2589-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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We report the first complete nucleotide sequence of a tomato spotted wilt virus (genus Tospovirus, family Bunyaviridae) isolate from the United States. The tripartite genome of PA01 consisted of L, M and S RNAs of 8914, 4765 and 2984 nt, respectively. Similarity percentages in nucleotide and amino acid sequence among PA01 and previously characterized TSWV isolates are provided here. Phylogenetic analysis on the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene placed PA01 in a different clade from an isolate from Hawaii that was partially characterized previously. Evidence of two putative reassortment events in the M segment, among PA01 and isolates from South Korea, Italy and Brazil, was found by phylogenetic and recombination analysis, further supporting a role for genetic exchange among isolates of different geographic origin in TSWV evolution.
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- Paolo Margaria
- Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Meng J, Liu P, Zhu L, Zou C, Li J, Chen B. Complete Genome Sequence of Mulberry Vein Banding Associated Virus, a New Tospovirus Infecting Mulberry. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0136196. [PMID: 26291718 PMCID: PMC4546196 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mulberry vein banding associated virus (MVBaV) that infects mulberry plants with typical vein banding symptoms had been identified as a tentative species of the genus Tospovirus based on the homology of N gene sequence to those of tospoviruses. In this study, the complete sequence of the tripartite RNA genome of MVBaV was determined and analyzed. The L RNA has 8905 nucleotides (nt) and encodes the putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of 2877 aa amino acids (aa) in the viral complementary (vc) strand. The RdRp of MVBaV shares the highest aa sequence identity (85.9%) with that of Watermelon silver mottle virus (WSMoV), and contains conserved motifs shared with those of the species of the genus Tospovirus. The M RNA contains 4731 nt and codes in ambisense arrangement for the NSm protein of 309 aa in the sense strand and the Gn/Gc glycoprotein precursor (GP) of 1,124 aa in the vc strand. The NSm and GP of MVBaV share the highest aa sequence identities with those of Capsicum chlorosis virus (CaCV) and Groundnut bud necrosis virus (GBNV) (83.2% and 84.3%, respectively). The S RNA is 3294 nt in length and contains two open reading frames (ORFs) in an ambisense coding strategy, encoding a 439-aa non-structural protein (NSs) and the 277-aa nucleocapsid protein (N), respectively. The NSs and N also share the highest aa sequence identity (71.1% and 74.4%, respectively) with those of CaCV. Phylogenetic analysis of the RdRp, NSm, GP, NSs, and N proteins showed that MVBaV is most closely related to CaCV and GBNV and that these proteins cluster with those of the WSMoV serogroup, and that MVBaV seems to be a species bridging the two subgroups within the WSMoV serogroup of tospoviruses in evolutionary aspect, suggesting that MVBaV represents a distinct tospovirus. Analysis of S RNA sequence uncovered the highly conserved 5’-/3’-ends and the coding regions, and the variable region of IGR with divergent patterns among MVBaV isolates.
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- Jiaorong Meng
- College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources (Guangxi University) and Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education of China for Microbial and Plant Genetic Engineering, Nanning, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources (Guangxi University) and Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education of China for Microbial and Plant Genetic Engineering, Nanning, China
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Huang CH, Hsiao WR, Huang CW, Chen KC, Lin SS, Chen TC, Raja JAJ, Wu HW, Yeh SD. Two Novel Motifs of Watermelon Silver Mottle Virus NSs Protein Are Responsible for RNA Silencing Suppression and Pathogenicity. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126161. [PMID: 25993336 PMCID: PMC4439075 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The NSs protein of Watermelon silver mottle virus (WSMoV) is the RNA silencing suppressor and pathogenicity determinant. In this study, serial deletion and point-mutation mutagenesis of conserved regions (CR) of NSs protein were performed, and the silencing suppression function was analyzed through agroinfiltration in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. We found two amino acid (aa) residues, H113 and Y398, are novel functional residues for RNA silencing suppression. Our further analyses demonstrated that H113 at the common epitope (CE) ((109)KFTMHNQ(117)), which is highly conserved in Asia type tospoviruses, and the benzene ring of Y398 at the C-terminal β-sheet motif ((397)IYFL(400)) affect NSs mRNA stability and protein stability, respectively, and are thus critical for NSs RNA silencing suppression. Additionally, protein expression of other six deleted (ΔCR1-ΔCR6) and five point-mutated (Y15A, Y27A, G180A, R181A and R212A) mutants were hampered and their silencing suppression ability was abolished. The accumulation of the mutant mRNAs and proteins, except Y398A, could be rescued or enhanced by co-infiltration with potyviral suppressor HC-Pro. When assayed with the attenuated Zucchini yellow mosaic virus vector in squash plants, the recombinants carrying individual seven point-mutated NSs proteins displayed symptoms much milder than the recombinant carrying the wild type NSs protein, suggesting that these aa residues also affect viral pathogenicity by suppressing the host silencing mechanism.
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- Chung-Hao Huang
- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Wufeng, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227, Taiwan
- NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan
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Csorba T, Kontra L, Burgyán J. viral silencing suppressors: Tools forged to fine-tune host-pathogen coexistence. Virology 2015; 479-480:85-103. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 368] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 01/31/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Bhushan L, Abraham A, Choudhury NR, Rana VS, Mukherjee SK, Savithri HS. Demonstration of helicase activity in the nonstructural protein, NSs, of the negative-sense RNA virus, groundnut bud necrosis virus. Arch Virol 2015; 160:959-67. [PMID: 25643815 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-014-2331-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2014] [Accepted: 11/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The nonstructural protein NSs, encoded by the S RNA of groundnut bud necrosis virus (GBNV) (genus Tospovirus, family Bunyaviridae) has earlier been shown to possess nucleic-acid-stimulated NTPase and 5' α phosphatase activity. ATP hydrolysis is an essential function of a true helicase. Therefore, NSs was tested for DNA helicase activity. The results demonstrated that GBNV NSs possesses bidirectional DNA helicase activity. An alanine mutation in the Walker A motif (K189A rNSs) decreased DNA helicase activity substantially, whereas a mutation in the Walker B motif resulted in a marginal decrease in this activity. The parallel loss of the helicase and ATPase activity in the K189A mutant confirms that NSs acts as a non-canonical DNA helicase. Furthermore, both the wild-type and K189A NSs could function as RNA silencing suppressors, demonstrating that the suppressor activity of NSs is independent of its helicase or ATPase activity. This is the first report of a true helicase from a negative-sense RNA virus.
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- Lokesh Bhushan
- Department of Biochemistry, New Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, Karnataka, India
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Margaria P, Ciuffo M, Rosa C, Turina M. Evidence of a tomato spotted wilt virus resistance-breaking strain originated through natural reassortment between two evolutionary-distinct isolates. Virus Res 2015; 196:157-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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