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Rumbou A, Vainio EJ, Büttner C. Towards the Forest Virome: High-Throughput Sequencing Drastically Expands Our Understanding on Virosphere in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9081730. [PMID: 34442809 PMCID: PMC8399312 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9081730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Thanks to the development of HTS technologies, a vast amount of genetic information on the virosphere of temperate forests has been gained in the last seven years. To estimate the qualitative/quantitative impact of HTS on forest virology, we have summarized viruses affecting major tree/shrub species and their fungal associates, including fungal plant pathogens, mutualists and saprotrophs. The contribution of HTS methods is extremely significant for forest virology. Reviewed data on viral presence in holobionts allowed us a first attempt to address the role of virome in holobionts. Forest health is dependent on the variability of microorganisms interacting with the host tree/holobiont; symbiotic microbiota and pathogens engage in a permanent interplay, which influences the host. Through virus–virus interplays synergistic or antagonistic relations may evolve, which may drastically affect the health of the holobiont. Novel insights of these interplays may allow practical applications for forest plant protection based on endophytes and mycovirus biocontrol agents. The current analysis is conceived in light of the prospect that novel viruses may initiate an emergent infectious disease and that measures for the avoidance of future outbreaks in forests should be considered.
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Affiliation(s)
- Artemis Rumbou
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
- Correspondence:
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland, Forest Health and Biodiversity, Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland;
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
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Petrzik K. Evolutionary forces at work in partitiviruses. Virus Genes 2019; 55:563-573. [PMID: 31230256 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-019-01680-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The family Partitiviridae consists of dsRNA viruses with genome separated into two segments and encoding replicase and capsid protein only. We examined the nucleotide diversity expressed as the ratio dN/dS of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitutions, which has been calculated for 12 representative viruses of all five genera of partitiviruses. We can state that strong purifying selection works on both the RdRp and CP genes and propose that putative positive selection occurs also on the RdRp genes in two viruses. Among the 95 evaluated viruses, wherein both segments had been sequenced, 8 viruses in betapartitiviruses and 9 in alphapartitiviruses were identified as reassortment candidates because they differ extremely in their CP identity even as they are related in terms of RdRp. Furthermore, there are indications that reassortants are present among isolates of different viruses.
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- Karel Petrzik
- Department of Plant Virology, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Kashif M, Jurvansuu J, Vainio EJ, Hantula J. Alphapartitiviruses of Heterobasidion Wood Decay Fungi Affect Each Other's Transmission and Host Growth. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2019; 9:64. [PMID: 30972301 PMCID: PMC6443826 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Heterobasidion spp. root rot fungi are highly destructive forest pathogens of the northern boreal forests, and are known to host a diverse community of partitiviruses. The transmission of these mycoviruses occurs horizontally among host strains via mycelial anastomoses. We revealed using dual cultures that virus transmission rates are affected by pre-existing virus infections among two strains of H. annosum. The transmission efficacy of mycovirus HetPV15-pa1 to a pre-infected host was elevated from zero to 50% by the presence of HetPV13-an1, and a double infection of these viruses in the donor resulted in an overall transmission rate of 90% to a partitivirus-free recipient. On contrary, pre-existing virus infections of two closely related strains of HetPV11 hindered each other's transmission, but had unexpectedly dissimilar effects on the transmission of more distantly related viruses. The co-infection of HetPV13-an1 and HetPV15-pa1 significantly reduced host growth, whereas double infections including HetPV11 strains had variable effects. Moreover, the results showed that RdRp transcripts are generally more abundant than capsid protein (CP) transcripts and the four different virus strains express unique transcripts ratios of RdRp and CP. Taken together, the results show that the interplay between co-infecting viruses and their host is extremely complex and highly unpredictable.
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- Muhammad Kashif
- Forest Health and Biodiversity, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Forest Health and Biodiversity, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Forest Health and Biodiversity, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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Botella L, Hantula J. Description, Distribution, and Relevance of Viruses of the Forest Pathogen Gremmeniella abietina. Viruses 2018; 10:v10110654. [PMID: 30463286 PMCID: PMC6267220 DOI: 10.3390/v10110654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The European race of the ascomycetous species Gremmeniella abietina (Lagerberg) Morelet includes causal agents of shoot blight and stem canker of several conifers in Europe and North America, which are known to host a diverse virome. GaRV6 is the latest and sixth mycovirus species reported within G. abietina. Before its description, one victorivirus and one gammapartitivirus species were described in biotype A, two mitoviruses in both biotypes A and B and a betaendornavirus in biotype B. Possible phenotypic changes produced by mycoviruses on G. abietina mycelial growth have been reported in Spanish mitovirus-free and GaRV6-hosting G. abietina isolates, which had higher growth rates at the optimal temperature of 15 °C, but no other major differences have been observed between partitivirus-like dsRNA and dsRNA-free isolates. In this review, we reappraise the diversity of viruses found in G. abietina so far, and their relevance in clarifying the taxonomy of G. abietina. We also provide evidence for the presence of two new viruses belonging to the families Fusariviridae and Endornaviridae in Spanish isolates.
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- Leticia Botella
- Phytophthora Research Centre, Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Forest Health and Biodiversity, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki, Finland.
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Pyle JD, Keeling PJ, Nibert ML. Amalga-like virus infecting Antonospora locustae, a microsporidian pathogen of grasshoppers, plus related viruses associated with other arthropods. Virus Res 2017; 233:95-104. [PMID: 28267607 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Revised: 02/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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A previously reported Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) library from spores of microsporidian Antonospora locustae includes a number of clones with sequence similarities to plant amalgaviruses. Reexamining the sequence accessions from that library, we found additional such clones, contributing to a 3247-nt contig that approximates the length of an amalga-like virus genome. Using A. locustae spores stored from that previous study, and new ones obtained from the same source, we newly visualized the putative dsRNA genome of this virus and obtained amplicons yielding a 3387-nt complete genome sequence. Phylogenetic analyses suggested it as prototype strain of a new genus in family Amalgaviridae. The genome contains two partially overlapping long ORFs, with downstream ORF2 in the +1 frame relative to ORF1 and a proposed motif for +1 ribosomal frameshifting in the region of overlap. Subsequent database searches using the predicted fusion protein sequence of this new amalga-like virus identified related sequences in the transcriptome of a basal hexapod, the springtail species Tetrodontophora bielanensis. We speculate that this second new amalga-like virus (contig length, 3475 nt) likely also derived from a microsporidian, or related organism, which was associated with the springtail specimens at the time of sampling for transcriptome analysis. Other findings of interest include evidence that the ORF1 translation products of these two new amalga-like viruses contain a central region of predicted α-helical coiled coil, as recently reported for plant amalgaviruses, and transcriptome-based evidence for another new amalga-like virus in the transcriptome of another basal hexapod, the two-pronged bristletail species Campodea augens.
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- Jesse D Pyle
- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Ph.D. Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Ph.D. Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Yun SH, Lee SH, So KK, Kim JM, Kim DH. Incidence of diverse dsRNA mycoviruses in Trichoderma spp. causing green mold disease of shiitake Lentinula edodes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2016; 363:fnw220. [PMID: 27664058 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 09/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A total of 315 fungal isolates causing green mold disease were collected from contaminated artificial logs and sawdust bags used for cultivating shiitake Lentinula edodes in Korea and were analyzed for the presence of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). dsRNA, which was purified using dsRNA-specific chromatography and verified by dsRNA-specific RNaseIII digestion, was detected in 32 isolates. The molecular taxonomy of dsRNA-infected isolates indicated that all isolates belonged to the Trichoderma spp.. The number and size of dsRNAs varied among isolates and the band patterns could be categorized into 15 groups. Although there were seven dsRNA groups observed in multiple isolates, eight groups were found to occur in single isolates. The most common dsRNA group, group VI, which contained a band of 10 kb, occurred in 10 isolates encompassing three species of Trichoderma. Partial sequence analysis of two selected dsRNA groups revealed a high degree of similarity to sequences of a RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, hypothetical protein and polyprotein genes of other hypoviruses such as Macrophomina phaseolina hypovirus 1, Trichoderma hypovirus, and Fusarium graminearum hypovirus 2, respectively, indicating the occurrence of mycoviruses in Trichoderma spp.. Northern blot analysis suggested that many different mycoviruses, which have not been identified yet, exist in Trichoderma.
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- Suk-Hyun Yun
- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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- Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Chonbuk 570-749, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Chonbuk 561-756, Korea
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Nibert ML, Pyle JD, Firth AE. A +1 ribosomal frameshifting motif prevalent among plant amalgaviruses. Virology 2016; 498:201-208. [PMID: 27596539 PMCID: PMC5052127 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2016] [Revised: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 07/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sequence accessions attributable to novel plant amalgaviruses have been found in the Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly database. Sixteen accessions, derived from 12 different plant species, appear to encompass the complete protein-coding regions of the proposed amalgaviruses, which would substantially expand the size of genus Amalgavirus from 4 current species. Other findings include evidence for UUU_CGN as a +1 ribosomal frameshifting motif prevalent among plant amalgaviruses; for a variant version of this motif found thus far in only two amalgaviruses from solanaceous plants; for a region of α-helical coiled coil propensity conserved in a central region of the ORF1 translation product of plant amalgaviruses; and for conserved sequences in a C-terminal region of the ORF2 translation product (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase) of plant amalgaviruses, seemingly beyond the region of conserved polymerase motifs. These results additionally illustrate the value of mining the TSA database and others for novel viral sequences for comparative analyses. A number of new plant amalgavirus sequences have been found in the TSA database. They provide support for a prevalent +1 frameshifting motif in amalgaviruses. A variant motif is identified in a subset of these viruses from related plants. The ORF1 product of amalgaviruses has propensity to form α-helical coiled coil. The TSA database is a useful source of new viral sequences for comparative analyses.
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- Max L Nibert
- Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Ph.D. Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Harvard Ph.D. Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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Complete nucleotide sequences of dsRNA2 and dsRNA7 detected in the phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotium hydrophilum and their close phylogenetic relationship to a group of unclassified viruses. Virus Genes 2016; 52:823-827. [DOI: 10.1007/s11262-016-1375-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Depierreux D, Vong M, Nibert ML. Nucleotide sequence of Zygosaccharomyces bailii virus Z: Evidence for +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting and for assignment to family Amalgaviridae. Virus Res 2016; 217:115-24. [PMID: 26951859 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Revised: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 02/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Zygosaccharomyces bailii virus Z (ZbV-Z) is a monosegmented dsRNA virus that infects the yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii and remains unclassified to date despite its discovery >20years ago. The previously reported nucleotide sequence of ZbV-Z (GenBank AF224490) encompasses two nonoverlapping long ORFs: upstream ORF1 encoding the putative coat protein and downstream ORF2 encoding the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). The lack of overlap between these ORFs raises the question of how the downstream ORF is translated. After examining the previous sequence of ZbV-Z, we predicted that it contains at least one sequencing error to explain the nonoverlapping ORFs, and hence we redetermined the nucleotide sequence of ZbV-Z, derived from the same isolate of Z. bailii as previously studied, to address this prediction. The key finding from our new sequence, which includes several insertions, deletions, and substitutions relative to the previous one, is that ORF2 in fact overlaps ORF1 in the +1 frame. Moreover, a proposed sequence motif for +1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting, previously noted in influenza A viruses, plant amalgaviruses, and others, is also present in the newly identified ORF1-ORF2 overlap region of ZbV-Z. Phylogenetic analyses provided evidence that ZbV-Z represents a distinct taxon most closely related to plant amalgaviruses (genus Amalgavirus, family Amalgaviridae). We conclude that ZbV-Z is the prototype of a new species, which we propose to assign as type species of a new genus of monosegmented dsRNA mycoviruses in family Amalgaviridae. Comparisons involving other unclassified mycoviruses with RdRps apparently related to those of plant amalgaviruses, and having either mono- or bisegmented dsRNA genomes, are also discussed.
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- Delphine Depierreux
- Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Biology, Program in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Namur, Namur BE 5000, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Program in Molecules, Cells and Organisms, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Vainio EJ, Hantula J. Taxonomy, biogeography and importance of Heterobasidion viruses. Virus Res 2015; 219:2-10. [PMID: 26477938 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Revised: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 10/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The genus Heterobasidion consists of several species of necrotrophic and saprotrophic fungi, and includes some of the most detrimental organisms in boreal conifer forests. These fungi host a widespread and diverse mycovirus community composed of more than 16 species of Partitiviridae, a species of Narnaviridae and one taxonomically unassigned virus related to the Curvularia thermal tolerance virus. These viruses are able to cross species borders, co-infect single host strains and cause phenotypic changes in their hosts. The abundance of viruses increases over time in Heterobasidion infection centers, and they are targeted by fungal RNA interference. Long-term field studies are essential for obtaining a comprehensive view of virus effects in the nature.
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- Eeva J Vainio
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokiniemenkuja 1, POB 18, 01301 Vantaa, Finland.
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokiniemenkuja 1, POB 18, 01301 Vantaa, Finland.
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