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Self-interaction of the cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein plays a vital role in the suppression of RNAsilencing and the induction of viral symptoms

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作者: Xu, Aixia 1 ; Zhao, Zhijing 1 ; Chen, Wenhu 1 ; Zhang, Hengmu 2 ; Liao, Qiansheng 1 ; Chen, Jishuang 3 ; Carr, John P. 4 ;

作者机构: 1.Zhejiang Sci Tech Univ, Inst Bioengn, Hangzhou 310018, Peoples R China

2.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, State Key Lab Breeding Base Zhejiang Sustainable, Hangzhou 310021, Zhejiang, Peoples R China

3.Nanjin Univ Biotechnol, Inst Bioresources, Nanjing 211800, Peoples R China

4.Univ Cambridge, Dept Plant Sci, Cambridge CB2 3EA, England

期刊名称:MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY ( 影响因子:5.663; 五年影响因子:5.626 )

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摘要: The cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2b protein is an RNA silencing suppressor protein that can also play direct and indirect roles in symptom induction. Previous work has shown that a hybrid virus, FRad35(2b)-CMV (renamed here as CMV-FRad2b-Pro), generated by replacement of the 2b gene of strain Fny-CMV with that from Rad35-CMV, displays markedly lower pathogenicity than Fny-CMV on Nicotiana species. However, the replacement of proline with leucine at position 55 of the 2b protein of CMV-FRad2b-Pro (protein Rad2b-Pro) created a virus (CMV-FRad2b-Leu) that induced severe symptoms. Infection of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants defective in the expression of DICER-like (DCL) endoribonucleases 2 and 4, which mediate antiviral RNA silencing, as well as of dcl3 and dcl2/3/4 triple-mutant plants, indicated that Rad2b-Pro was a weaker RNA silencing suppressor than the protein Rad2b-Leu. This was confirmed in Nicotiana benthamiana using agroinfiltration assays, showing that, compared with either Rad2b-Leu or the Fny2b protein, Rad2b-Pro was ineffective at inhibiting local or systemic silencing of expression of a green fluorescent protein reporter gene. Transgenic expression of Rad2b-Leu, but not of Rad2b-Pro, in Arabidopsis induced symptom-like phenotypes and rescued the accumulation of the 2b-deletion mutant Fny-CMV2b. Bimolecular fluorescent complementation indicated that, inplanta, Rad2b-Leu, but not Rad2b-Pro, self-interacts. Thus, self-interaction is crucial to the ability of the 2b protein to suppress silencing and induce a symptom-like phenotype, and is dependent on the properties of the residue at position 55.

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