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VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v13122498
Keywords
viral fitness; cilevirus; alfalfa mosaic virus system; movement protein; amino acid mutation
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Competition experiments in transgenic tobacco plants showed the prevalence of the AMV construct carrying the CiLV-C2 MP. Analysis of AMV RNA 3 progeny revealed the presence of a mix of progeny with different variants, with MPS259F favoring cell-to-cell transport and MPS72F having a penalty in viral fitness.
Previous results using a movement defective alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) vector revealed that citrus leprosis virus C (CiLV-C) movement protein (MP) generates a more efficient local movement, but not more systemic transport, than citrus leprosis virus C2 (CiLV-C2) MP, MPs belonging to two important viruses for the citrus industry. Here, competition experiment assays in transgenic tobacco plants (P12) between transcripts of AMV constructs expressing the cilevirus MPs, followed by several biological passages, showed the prevalence of the AMV construct carrying the CiLV-C2 MP. The analysis of AMV RNA 3 progeny recovered from P12 plant at the second viral passage revealed the presence of a mix of progeny encompassing the CiLV-C2 MP wild type (MPWT) and two variants carrying serines instead phenylalanines at positions 72 (MPS72F) or 259 (MPS259F), respectively. We evaluated the effects of each modified residue in virus replication, and cell-to-cell and long-distance movements. Results indicated that phenylalanine at position 259 favors viral cell-to-cell transport with an improvement in viral fitness, but has no effect on viral replication, whereas mutation at position 72 (MPS72F) has a penalty in the viral fitness. Our findings indicate that the prevalence of a viral population may be correlated with its greater efficiency in cell-to-cell and systemic movements.
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