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Mirauti A, Tran PT, Citovsky V. Restriction-ligation-independent production of a TVCV infectious clone and a TVCV-based gene expression vector. Heliyon 2023; 9:e19855. [PMID: 37810018 PMCID: PMC10559237 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 08/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Transgenic expression of proteins in plants is central to research and biotechnology, and, often, it is desirable to obtain this expression without altering the nuclear or plastid genomes. Thus, expression vectors based on plant viruses that infect multiple cells are useful; furthermore, they are also advantageous for studies of the life cycle of the virus itself. Here, we report the development of an expression vector based on a Turnip vein-clearing virus (TVCV), a tobamovirus known to easily infect two model plants, Nicotiana benthamiana, and Arabidopsis thaliana. Avoiding restriction digestion, we utilized a restriction-ligation-independent cloning approach to construct an infectious cDNA clone of TVCV from the viral RNA and then to convert this clone to a gene expression vector adapted for Gateway-based recombination cloning for transgene insertion. The functionality of the resulting vector, designated pTVCV-DEST, was validated by the expression of an autofluorescent reporter transgene following agroinoculation of the target plant.
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- Andrea Mirauti
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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Jogam P, Sandhya D, Alok A, Peddaboina V, Singh SP, Abbagani S, Zhang B, Allini VR. Editing of TOM1 gene in tobacco using CRISPR/Cas9 confers resistance to Tobacco mosaic virus. Mol Biol Rep 2023; 50:5165-5176. [PMID: 37119416 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-023-08440-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Genome editing technology has become one of the excellent tools for precise plant breeding to develop novel plant germplasm. The Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is the most prominent pathogen that infects several Solanaceae plants, such as tobacco, tomato, and capsicum, which requires critical host factors for infection and replication of its genomic RNA in the host. The Tobamovirus multiplication (TOM) genes, such as TOM1, TOM2A, TOM2B, and TOM3, are involved in the multiplication of Tobamoviruses. TOM1 is a transmembrane protein necessary for efficient TMV multiplication in several plant species. The TOM genes are crucial recessive resistance genes that act against the tobamoviruses in various plant species. METHODS AND RESULTS The single guided RNA (sgRNA) was designed to target the first exon of the NtTOM1 gene and cloned into the pHSE401 vector. The pHSE401-NtTOM1 vector was introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and then transformed into tobacco plants. The analysis on T0 transgenic plants showed the presence of the hptII and Cas9 transgenes. The sequence analysis of the NtTOM1 from T0 plants showed the indels. Genotypic evaluation of the NtTOM1 mutant lines displayed the stable inheritance of the mutations in the subsequent generations of tobacco plants. The NtTOM1 mutant lines successfully conferred resistance to TMV. CONCLUSIONS CRISPR/Cas genome editing is a reliable tool for investigating gene function and precision breeding across different plant species, especially the species in the Solanaceae family.
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- Phanikanth Jogam
- Department of Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 506009, Telangana, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 506009, Telangana, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (DBT-CIAB), Mohali, 140306, Punjab, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 506009, Telangana, India
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 27858, USA.
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Sorokin II, Vassilenko KS, Terenin IM, Kalinina NO, Agol VI, Dmitriev SE. Non-Canonical Translation Initiation Mechanisms Employed by Eukaryotic Viral mRNAs. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2021; 86:1060-1094. [PMID: 34565312 PMCID: PMC8436584 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297921090042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Viruses exploit the translation machinery of an infected cell to synthesize their proteins. Therefore, viral mRNAs have to compete for ribosomes and translation factors with cellular mRNAs. To succeed, eukaryotic viruses adopt multiple strategies. One is to circumvent the need for m7G-cap through alternative instruments for ribosome recruitment. These include internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs), which make translation independent of the free 5' end, or cap-independent translational enhancers (CITEs), which promote initiation at the uncapped 5' end, even if located in 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs). Even if a virus uses the canonical cap-dependent ribosome recruitment, it can still perturb conventional ribosomal scanning and start codon selection. The pressure for genome compression often gives rise to internal and overlapping open reading frames. Their translation is initiated through specific mechanisms, such as leaky scanning, 43S sliding, shunting, or coupled termination-reinitiation. Deviations from the canonical initiation reduce the dependence of viral mRNAs on translation initiation factors, thereby providing resistance to antiviral mechanisms and cellular stress responses. Moreover, viruses can gain advantage in a competition for the translational machinery by inactivating individual translational factors and/or replacing them with viral counterparts. Certain viruses even create specialized intracellular "translation factories", which spatially isolate the sites of their protein synthesis from cellular antiviral systems, and increase availability of translational components. However, these virus-specific mechanisms may become the Achilles' heel of a viral life cycle. Thus, better understanding of the unconventional mechanisms of viral mRNA translation initiation provides valuable insight for developing new approaches to antiviral therapy.
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- Ivan I Sorokin
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia
- Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141701, Russia
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- Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
- Institute of Poliomyelitis, Chumakov Center for Research and Development of Immunobiological Products, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 108819, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia.
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119234, Russia
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Chattopadhyay A, Abdul Kader Jailani A, Roy A, Mukherjee SK, Mandal B. Prediction of putative regulatory elements in the subgenomic promoters of cucumber green mottle mosaic virus and their interactions with the RNA dependent RNA polymerase domain. Virusdisease 2020; 31:503-516. [PMID: 33381623 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-020-00640-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Characterization of the subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) promoter of many plant viruses is important to understand the expression of downstream genes and also to configure their genome into a suitable virus gene-vector system. Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV, genus Tobamovirus) is one of the RNA viruses, which is extensively being exploited as the suitable gene silencing and protein expression vector. Even though, characters of the sgRNA promoters (SGPs) of CGMMV are yet to be addressed. In the present study, we predicted the SGP for the movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP) of CGMMV. Further, we identified the key regulatory elements in the SGP regions of MP and CP, and their interactions with the core RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) domain of CGMMV was deciphered. The modeled structure of core RdRp contains two palm (1-41 aa, and 63-109 aa), one finger (42-62 aa) subdomains with three conserved RdRp motifs that played important role in binding to the SGP nucleic acids. RdRp strongly preferred the double helix form of the stem region in the stem and loop (SL) structures, and the internal bulge elements. In MP-SGP, a total of six elements was identified; of them, the affinity of binding to - 26 nt to - 17 nt site (CGCGGAAAAG) was higher through the formation of strong hydrogen bonds with LYS16, TYR17, LYS19, SER20, etc. of the motif A in the palm subdomain of RdRp. Similar strong interactions were noticed in the internal bulge (CAACUUU) located at + 33 to + 39 nt adjacent to the translation start site (TLSS) (+ 1). These could be proposed as the putative core promoter elements in MP-SGP. Likewise, total five elements were predicted within - 114 nt to + 144 nt region of CP-SGP with respect to CP-TLSS. Of them, RdRp preferred to bind at the small hairpin located at - 60 nt to - 43 nt (UUGGAGGUUUAGCCUCCA) in the upstream region, and at the complex duplex structure spanning between + 99 and + 114 nt in the downstream region, thus indicating the distribution of core promoter within - 60 nt to + 114 nt region of CP-SGP with respect to TLSS (+ 1) of the CP; whereas, the - 114 nt to + 144 nt region of CP-SGP might be necessary for the full activity of the CP-SGP. Our in silico prediction certifies the gravity of these nucleotide stretches as the RNA regulatory elements and identifies their potentiality for binding with of palm and finger sub-domain of RdRp. Identification of such elements will be helpful to anticipate the critical length of the SGPs. Our finding will not only be helpful to delineate the SGPs of CGMMV but also their subsequent application in the efficient construction of virus gene-vector for the expression of foreign protein in plant.
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- Anirudha Chattopadhyay
- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012 India
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The modern view of the mechanism of intercellular movement of viruses is based largely on data from the study of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) 30-kDa movement protein (MP). The discovered properties and abilities of TMV MP, namely, (a) in vitro binding of single-stranded RNA in a non-sequence-specific manner, (b) participation in the intracellular trafficking of genomic RNA to the plasmodesmata (Pd), and (c) localization in Pd and enhancement of Pd permeability, have been used as a reference in the search and analysis of candidate proteins from other plant viruses. Nevertheless, although almost four decades have passed since the introduction of the term “movement protein” into scientific circulation, the mechanism underlying its function remains unclear. It is unclear why, despite the absence of homology, different MPs are able to functionally replace each other in trans-complementation tests. Here, we consider the complexity and contradictions of the approaches for assessment of the ability of plant viral proteins to perform their movement function. We discuss different aspects of the participation of MP and MP/vRNA complexes in intra- and intercellular transport. In addition, we summarize the essential MP properties for their functioning as “conditioners”, creating a favorable environment for viral reproduction.
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Sheshukova EV, Ershova NM, Kamarova KA, Dorokhov YL, Komarova TV. The Tobamoviral Movement Protein: A "Conditioner" to Create a Favorable Environment for Intercellular Spread of Infection. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:959. [PMID: 32670343 PMCID: PMC7328123 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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During their evolution, viruses acquired genes encoding movement protein(s) (MPs) that mediate the intracellular transport of viral genetic material to plasmodesmata (Pd) and initiate the mechanisms leading to the increase in plasmodesmal permeability. Although the current view on the role of the viral MPs was primarily formed through studies on tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), the function of its MP has not been fully elucidated. Given the intercellular movement of MPs independent of genomic viral RNA (vRNA), this characteristic may induce favorable conditions ahead of the infection front for the accelerated movement of the vRNA (i.e. the MP plays a role as a "conditioner" of viral intercellular spread). This idea is supported by (a) the synthesis of MP from genomic vRNA early in infection, (b) the Pd opening and the MP transfer to neighboring cells without formation of the viral replication complex (VRC), and (c) the MP-mediated movement of VRCs beyond the primary infected cell. Here, we will consider findings that favor the TMV MP as a "conditioner" of enhanced intercellular virus movement. In addition, we will discuss the mechanism by which TMV MP opens Pd for extraordinary transport of macromolecules. Although there is no evidence showing direct effects of TMV MP on Pd leading to their dilatation, recent findings indicate that MPs exert their influence indirectly by modulating Pd external and structural macromolecules such as callose and Pd-associated proteins. In explaining this phenomenon, we will propose a mechanism for TMV MP functioning as a conditioner for virus movement.
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Ju HK, Kim IH, Hu WX, Kim B, Choi GW, Kim J, Lim YP, Domier LL, Hammond J, Lim HS. A single nucleotide change in the overlapping MP and CP reading frames results in differences in symptoms caused by two isolates of Youcai mosaic virus. Arch Virol 2019; 164:1553-1565. [PMID: 30923966 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04222-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Two isolates of Youcai mosaic virus (YoMV) were obtained, and their full-length genomic sequences were determined. Full-length infectious cDNA clones of each isolate were generated in which the viral sequence was under the control of dual T7 and 35S promoters for both in vitro transcript production and agro-infiltration. Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences of the encoded proteins revealed only four differences between the isolates: three in the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) (V383I and M492I in the 125-kDa protein and T1245M in the 182-kDa protein); and one in the overlapping region of the movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP) genes, affecting only the N-terminal domain of CP (CP M17T). One of the isolates caused severe symptoms in Nicotiana benthamiana plants, while the other caused only mild symptoms. In order to identify the amino acid residues associated with symptom severity, chimeric constructs were generated by combining parts of the two infectious YoMV clones, and the symptoms in infected plants were compared to those induced by the parental isolates. This allowed us to conclude that the M17T substitution in the N-terminal domain of CP was responsible for the difference in symptom severity. The M17T variation was found to be unique among characterized YoMV isolates. A difference in potential post-translational modification resulting from the presence of a predicted casein kinase II phosphorylation site only in the CP of isolate HK2 may be responsible for the symptom differences.
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- Hye-Kyoung Ju
- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USDA-ARS, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, United States National Arboretum, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, USA.
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- Department of Applied Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
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