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VIRUS GENES
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 205-214Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11262-006-0049-9
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Tobamovirus; Pepper mild mottle virus; coat protein; capsicum plants; L-3 resistance gene; elicitor
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We found that an L-3 resistance-breaking field isolate of Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV), designated PMMoV-Is, had two amino acid changes in its coat protein (CP), namely leucine to phenylalanine at position 13 (L13F) and glycine to valine at position 66 (G66V), as compared with PMMoV-J, which induces a resistance response in L-3-harboring Capsicum plants. The mutations were located to a CP domain corresponding to the outer surface of PMMoV particles in computational molecular modeling. Analyses of PMMoV CP mutants containing either or both of these amino acid changes revealed that both changes were required to efficiently overcome L-3-mediated resistance with systemic necrosis induction. Although CP mutants containing either L13F or G66V could not efficiently overcome L-3-mediated resistance, these amino acid changes had different effects on the elicitor activity of PMMoV CP. L13F caused a slight reduction in the elicitor activity, resulting in virus restriction to necrotic local lesions that were apparently larger than those induced by wild-type PMMoV, while G66V rendered wild-type PMMoV the ability to overcome L-3-mediated resistance, albeit with a lower efficiency than PMMoV with both changes. These results suggest that a cooperative effect of the L13F and G66V mutations on the elicitor activity of CP is responsible for overcoming the L-3-mediated resistance.
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