Identification of Key Residues Required for RNA Silencing Suppressor Activity of p23 Protein from a Mild Strain of Citrus Tristeza Virus.

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2019
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Abstract
The severe strain of citrus tristeza virus (CTV) causes quick decline of citrus trees. However, the CTV mild strain causes no symptoms and commonly presents in citrus trees. Viral suppressor of RNA silencing (VSR) plays an important role in the successful invasion of viruses into plants. For CTV, VSR has mostly been studied in severe strains. In this study, the N4 mild strain in China was sequenced and found to have high sequence identity with the T30 strain. Furthermore, we verified the functions of three VSRs in the N4 strain, and p23 was found to be the most effective in terms of local silencing suppressor activity among the three CTV VSRs and localized to both nucleus and plasmodesmata, which is similar to CTV T36 strain. Several conserved amino acids were identified in p23. Mutation of E95A/V96A and M99A/L100AA impaired p23 protein stability. Consequently, these two mutants lost most of its suppressor activity and their protein levels could not be rescued by co-expressing p19. Q93A and R143A/E144A abolished p23 suppressor activity only and their protein levels increased to wild type level when co-expressed with p19. This work may facilitate a better understanding of the pathogenic mechanism of CTV mild strains.
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Authors Li, Zhuoran;He, Yizhong;Luo, Tao;Zhang, Xi;Wan, Haoliang;Ur Rehman, Atta;Bao, Xinru;Zhang, Qian;Chen, Jia;Xu, Rangwei;Deng, Yingtian;Zeng, Yunliu;Xu, Juan;Hong, Ni;Li, Feng;Cheng, Yunjiang;
Journal Viruses
Year 2019
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E782
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