Genetic analysis of bipartite geminivirus tissue tropism

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Abstract

The bipartite geminiviruses bean golden mosaic virus (BGMV), cabbage leaf curl virus (CabLCV), and tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV) exhibit differential tissue tropism in Nicotiana benthamiana. In systemically infected leaves, BGMV remains largely confined to vascular-associated cells (phloem-limited), whereas CabLCV and TGMV can escape into the surrounding mesophyll. Previous work established that TGMV BRi, the noncoding region upstream from the BR1 open reading frame (ORF), is required for mesophyll invasion, but the virus must also contain the TGMV AL23 or BL1/BR1 ORFs. Here we show that, in a BGMV-based hybrid virus, CabLCV AL23 also directed efficient mesophyll invasion in conjunction with TGMV BRi, which suggests that host-adaptation of AL23 is important for the phenotype. Cis-acting elements required for mesophyll invasion were delineated by analyzing BGMV-based hybrid viruses in which various parts of BRi were exchanged with those of TGMV. Interestingly, mesophyll invasion efficiency of hybrid viruses was not correlated with the extent of viral DNA accumulation. In conjunction with TGMV AL23, a 52-bp region of TGMV BRi with sequence homology to DNA A was sufficient for mesophyll invasion. This 52-bp sequence also directed mesophyll invasion in combination with the TGMV BL1/BR1 ORFs. Overall, these results are consistent with a model for mesophyll invasion in which AL2 protein, in association with host factors, acts through the 52-bp region in TGMV BRi to affect expression of the BR1 gene, © 2001 ELsevier Science.

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Qin, Y., & Petty, I. T. D. (2001). Genetic analysis of bipartite geminivirus tissue tropism. Virology, 291(2), 311–323. https://doi.org/10.1006/viro.2001.1205

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