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Bolus S, Malapi-Wight M, Grinstead SC, Fuentes-Bueno I, Hendrickson L, Hammond RW, Mollov D. Identification and characterization of Miscanthus yellow fleck virus, a new polerovirus infecting Miscanthus sinensis. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239199. [PMID: 32941541 PMCID: PMC7498013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Miscanthus sinensis is a grass used for sugarcane breeding and bioenergy production. Using high throughput sequencing technologies, we identified a new viral genome in infected M. sinensis leaf tissue displaying yellow fleck symptoms. This virus is most related to members of the genus Polerovirus in the family Luteoviridae. The canonical ORFs were computationally identified, the P3 coat protein was expressed, and virus-like particles were purified and found to conform to icosahedral shapes, characteristic of the family Luteoviridae. We propose the name Miscanthus yellow fleck virus for this new virus.
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- Stephen Bolus
- USDA-ARS, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Plant Germplasm Quarantine Program, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
- USDA-APHIS-BRS, Biotechnology Risk Analysis Programs, Riverdale, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Plant Germplasm Quarantine Program, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS, Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- USDA-ARS, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America
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Alexander MM, Mohr JP, DeBlasio SL, Chavez JD, Ziegler-Graff V, Brault V, Bruce JE, Heck MC. Insights in luteovirid structural biology guided by chemical cross-linking and high resolution mass spectrometry. Virus Res 2017; 241:42-52. [PMID: 28502641 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Interactions among plant pathogenic viruses in the family Luteoviridae and their plant hosts and insect vectors are governed by the topology of the viral capsid, which is the sole vehicle for long distance movement of the viral genome. Previous application of a mass spectrometry-compatible cross-linker to preparations of the luteovirid Potato leafroll virus (PLRV; Luteoviridae: Polerovirus) revealed a detailed network of interactions between viral structural proteins and enabled generation of the first cross-linking guided coat protein models. In this study, we extended application of chemical cross-linking technology to the related Turnip yellows virus (TuYV; Luteoviridae: Polerovirus). Remarkably, all cross-links found between sites in the viral coat protein found for TuYV were also found in PLRV. Guided by these data, we present two models for the TuYV coat protein trimer, the basic structural unit of luteovirid virions. Additional cross-links found between the TuYV coat protein and a site in the viral protease domain suggest a possible role for the luteovirid protease in regulating the structural biology of these viruses.
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- Mariko M Alexander
- School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA; Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA; USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Boissinot S, Erdinger M, Monsion B, Ziegler-Graff V, Brault V. Both structural and non-structural forms of the readthrough protein of cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus are essential for efficient systemic infection of plants. PLoS One 2014; 9:e93448. [PMID: 24691251 PMCID: PMC3972232 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cucurbit aphid-borne yellows virus (CABYV) is a polerovirus (Luteoviridae family) with a capsid composed of the major coat protein and a minor component referred to as the readthrough protein (RT). Two forms of the RT were reported: a full-length protein of 74 kDa detected in infected plants and a truncated form of 55 kDa (RT*) incorporated into virions. Both forms were detected in CABYV-infected plants. To clarify the specific roles of each protein in the viral cycle, we generated by deletion a polerovirus mutant able to synthesize only the RT* which is incorporated into the particle. This mutant was unable to move systemically from inoculated leaves inferring that the C-terminal half of the RT is required for efficient long-distance transport of CABYV. Among a collection of CABYV mutants bearing point mutations in the central domain of the RT, we obtained a mutant impaired in the correct processing of the RT which does not produce the RT*. This mutant accumulated very poorly in upper non-inoculated leaves, suggesting that the RT* has a functional role in long-distance movement of CABYV. Taken together, these results infer that both RT proteins are required for an efficient CABYV movement.
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- Sylvaine Boissinot
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1131 Santé de la Vigne et Qualité du Vin, Colmar, France
- Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1131 Santé de la Vigne et Qualité du Vin, Colmar, France
- Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1131 Santé de la Vigne et Qualité du Vin, Colmar, France
- Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité Propre de Recherche 2357, Strasbourg, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité Propre de Recherche 2357, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1131 Santé de la Vigne et Qualité du Vin, Colmar, France
- Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Peter KA, Liang D, Palukaitis P, Gray SM. Small deletions in the potato leafroll virus readthrough protein affect particle morphology, aphid transmission, virus movement and accumulation. J Gen Virol 2008; 89:2037-2045. [PMID: 18632976 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83625-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023] Open
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Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) capsid comprises 180 coat protein (CP) subunits, with some percentage containing a readthrough domain (RTD) extension located on the particle's surface. The RTD N terminus is highly conserved in luteovirids and this study sought to identify biologically active sites within this region of the PLRV RTD. Fourteen three-amino-acid-deletion mutants were generated from a cloned infectious PLRV cDNA and delivered to plants by Agrobacterium inoculations. All mutant viruses accumulated locally in infiltrated tissues and expressed the readthrough protein (RTP) containing the CP and RTD sequences in plant tissues; however, when purified, only three mutant viruses incorporated the RTP into the virion. None of the mutant viruses were aphid transmissible, but the viruses persisted in aphids for a period sufficient to allow for virus transmission. Several mutant viruses were examined further for systemic infection in four host species. All mutant viruses, regardless of RTP incorporation, moved systemically in each host, although they accumulated at different rates in systemically infected tissues. The biological properties of the RTP are sensitive to modifications in both the RTD conserved and variable regions.
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- Kari A Peter
- Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- USDA/ARS, Biological Integrated Pest Management Research Unit, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- USDA/ARS, Biological Integrated Pest Management Research Unit, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- USDA/ARS, Biological Integrated Pest Management Research Unit, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Brault V, Herrbach E, Reinbold C. Electron microscopy studies on luteovirid transmission by aphids. Micron 2007; 38:302-12. [PMID: 16750376 DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2006] [Revised: 04/01/2006] [Accepted: 04/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations have been extensively applied to follow the route of luteovirids in their vectors. Luteovirids are icosahedral plant viruses which are phloem-limited and strictly transmitted in a circulative manner by aphids. Virus particles, acquired by aphids while feeding on an infected plant, circulate in the aphid's body without replication and are internalized during this process in two different cell types (intestinal and accessory salivary gland cells). The endocytosis mechanism at the gut level seems to rely on a clathrin-mediated entry process and virions are observed in the aphid's gut cells in various vesicular structures. After exocytosis from intestinal cells, virions are released in the aphid's body cavity where they are thought to bind to symbionin, an endosymbiotic protein. Transcytosis of the accessory salivary gland cells occurs similarly as at the gut level but in the reverse direction. Using engineered virus mutants, viral proteins required for transmission and involved in virus retention in the hemocoel have been identified. Virus mutants poorly or non aphid-transmitted have also been localized in the aphid's body by TEM. These observations reveal the crucial role of the minor capsid protein in gut internalization. While not strictly required, this protein seems to play an important role in the efficiency of this process by interacting with putative virus receptors localized on the gut apical membrane. More recently, some aphid proteins have also been shown to exhibit in vitro virus binding capacity and could potentially be components of the endocytotic apparatus.
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- Véronique Brault
- UMR Santé de la Vigne et Qualité du Vin, Virologie et Vection, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Louis Pasteur (ULP Strasbourg), 28 rue de Herrlisheim, 68021 Colmar, France.
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