Disruption of virus movement confers broad-spectrum resistance against systemic infection by plant viruses with a triple gene block

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White clover mosaic virus strain O (WCIMV-O), species of the Potexvirus genus, contains a set of three partially overlapping genes (the triple gene block) that encodes nonvirion proteins of 26 kDa, 13 kDa, and 7 kDa. These proteins are necessary for cell-to-cell movement in plants but not for replication. The WCIMV-O 13-kDa gene was mutated (to 13*) in a region of the gene that is conserved in all viruses known to possess triple-gene-block proteins. All 10 13* transgenic lines of Nicotiana benthamiana designed to express the mutated movement protein were shown to be resistant to systemic infection by WCIMV-O at 1 μg of WCIMV virions per ml, whereas all plants from susceptible control lines became systemically infected. Of the 13* transgenic lines, 3 selected for their abundant seed supply were shown to be resistant to systemic infection when challenged by inoculation with three different WCIMV strains (O, M, and J) or with WCIMV-O RNA at 10 μg/ml. Most plants were also resistant to systemic infection at inoculum concentrations up to 250 μg of WCIMV virions per ml. In addition, the three 13* transgenic plant lines were found to be resistant to systemic infection with two other members of the Potexvirus group, potato virus X and narcissus mosaic virus, and the Carlavirus potato virus S but not to be resistant to tobacco mosaic virus of the Tobamovirus group. These results indicate that virus resistance can be engineered into transgenic plants by expression of dominant negative mutant forms of triple-gene-block movement proteins.

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Beck, D. L., Van Dolleweerd, C. J., Lough, T. J., Balmori, E., Voot, D. M., Andersen, M. T., … Forster, R. L. S. (1994). Disruption of virus movement confers broad-spectrum resistance against systemic infection by plant viruses with a triple gene block. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91(22), 10310–10314. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.91.22.10310

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