Elimination of L-A double-stranded RNA virus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by expression of gag and gag-pol from an L-A cDNA clone.

AUTOR(ES)

Valle, R P

RESUMO

We report that expression of a nearly full-length cDNA clone of the L-A double-stranded RNA virus causes virus loss in a wild-type strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We show that in this system exclusion of the L-A virus is independent of the presence of the packaging site or of cis sites for replication and transcription and completely dependent on expression of functional recombinant gag and gag-pol fusion protein. Thus, this exclusion is not explained in terms of overexpression of packaging signals. Mutation of the chromosomal SKI2 gene, known to repress the copy number of double-stranded RNA cytoplasmic replicons of S. cerevisiae, nearly eliminates the exclusion. We suggest that exclusion is due to competition by proteins expressed from the plasmid for a possibly limiting cellular factor. Our hypotheses on exclusion of L-A proteins may also apply to resistance to plant viruses produced by expression of viral replicases in transgenic plants.

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