Identification of the Potential Virulence Factors and RNA Silencing Suppressors of Mulberry Mosaic Dwarf-Associated Geminivirus

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第一作者： Ren, Yanxiang

作者： Ren, Yanxiang;Sun, Shaoshuang;Wang, Dongxue;Zhang, Fanfan;Li, Shifang;Zhou, Xueping;Ren, Yanxiang;Li, Dawei;Ren, Yanxiang;Li, Dawei;Zhou, Xueping

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关键词： MMDaV; RNA silencing; suppressor; virulence factor

期刊名称：VIRUSES-BASEL （ 影响因子：5.048； 五年影响因子：5.127 ）

ISSN： 1999-4915

年卷期： 2018 年 10 卷 9 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Plant viruses encode virulence factors or RNA silencing suppressors to reprogram plant cellular processes or to fine-tune host RNA silencing-mediated defense responses. In a previous study, Mulberry mosaic dwarf-associated virus (MMDaV), a novel, highly divergent geminivirus, has been identified from a Chinese mulberry tree showing mosaic and dwarfing symptoms, but the functions of its encoded proteins are unknown. In this study, all seven proteins encoded by MMDaV were screened for potential virulence and RNA silencing suppressor activities. We found that V2, RepA, and Rep affect the pathogenicity of a heterologous potato virus X. We showed that V2 could inhibit local RNA silencing and long-distance movement of the RNA silencing signal, but not short-range spread of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) silencing signal in Nicotiana benthamiana 16c plants. In addition, V2 localized to both subnuclear foci and the cytoplasm. Deletion mutagenesis of V2 showed that the basic motif from amino acids 61 to 76 was crucial for V2 to form subnuclear foci and for suppression of RNA silencing. Although the V2 protein encoded by begomoviruses or a curtovirus has been shown to have silencing suppressor activity, this is the first identification of an RNA silencing suppressor from a woody plant-infecting geminivirus.

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