A plant virus-encoded protein facilitates long-distance movement of heterologous viral RNA

AUTOR(ES)

Ryabov, Eugene V.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Transport of plant viruses from cell to cell typically involves one or more viral proteins that supply specific cell-to-cell movement functions. Long-distance transport of viruses through the vascular system is a less well understood process with requirements different from those of cell-to-cell movement. Usually viral coat protein (CP) is required for long-distance movement, but groundnut rosette umbravirus (GRV) does not code for a CP. However, this virus moves efficiently from cell to cell and long distance. We demonstrate here that the protein encoded by ORF3 of GRV can functionally replace the CP of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) for long-distance movement. In spite of low levels of virus RNA accumulation in infected cells, chimeric TMV with a replacement of the CP gene by GRV ORF3 was able to move rapidly through the phloem. Moreover, this chimeric virus complemented long-distance movement of another CP-deficient TMV derivative expressing the gene encoding the green fluorescent protein. Thus, the GRV ORF3-encoded protein represents a class of trans-acting long-distance movement factors that can facilitate trafficking of an unrelated viral RNA.

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