Journal
MICROORGANISMS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9040805
Keywords
host jumping; viral evolution; trade-off; plant virus; RNA virus; potyvirus; Plum pox virus; VPg; eIF4E
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain) [BIO2016-80572-R, PID2019-109380RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Spain)
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Understanding the biological mechanisms that regulate the emergence of viral diseases, especially the events involving cross-species pathogen spillover, is increasingly important in virology. While studies on species barrier jumping in animal viruses have been extensive, research on host jumping involving plant viruses has been focused on shifting intra-species, leaving the potential role of bridge hosts in facilitating interspecies crossing largely unexplored.
Understanding biological mechanisms that regulate emergence of viral diseases, in particular those events engaging cross-species pathogens spillover, is becoming increasingly important in virology. Species barrier jumping has been extensively studied in animal viruses, and the critical role of a suitable intermediate host in animal viruses-generated human pandemics is highly topical. However, studies on host jumping involving plant viruses have been focused on shifting intra-species, leaving aside the putative role of bridge hosts in facilitating interspecies crossing. Here, we take advantage of several VPg mutants, derived from a chimeric construct of the potyvirus Plum pox virus (PPV), analyzing its differential behaviour in three herbaceous species. Our results showed that two VPg mutations in a Nicotiana clevelandii-adapted virus, emerged during adaptation to the bridge-host Arabidopsis thaliana, drastically prompted partial adaptation to Chenopodium foetidum. Although both changes are expected to facilitate productive interactions with eIF(iso)4E, polymorphims detected in PPV VPg and the three eIF(iso)4E studied, extrapolated to a recent VPg:eIF4E structural model, suggested that two adaptation ways can be operating. Remarkably, we found that VPg mutations driving host-range expansion in two non-related species, not only are not associated with cost trade-off constraints in the original host, but also improve fitness on it.
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