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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 104, Issue 5, Pages 1714-1719Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608117104
Keywords
suppression; silencing; RNA-induced silencing complex
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- NIAID NIH HHS [1R03-AI067384-01, R03 AI067384] Funding Source: Medline
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Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) and other tombusviruses encode a p19 protein (P19), which is a suppressor of RNAL Wild-type TBSV or p19-defective mutants initially show a similar infection course in Nicotiana benthamiana, but the absence of an active P19 results in viral RNA degradation followed by recovery from infection. P19 homodimers sequester 21-nt virus-derived duplex siRNAs, and it is thought that this prevents the programming of an antiviral RNAinduced silencing complex to avoid viral RNA degradation. Here we report on chromatographic fractionation (gel filtration, ion exchange, and hydroxyapatite) of extracts from healthy or infected Nicotiana benthamiana plants in combination with in vitro assays for ribonuclease activity and detection of TBSV-derived siRNAs. Only extracts of plants infected with p19 mutants provided a source of sequence-nonspecific but ssRNA-targeted in vitro ribonuclease activity that coeluted with components of a wide molecular weight range. In addition, we isolated a discrete approximate to 500-kDa protein complex that contained approximate to 21-nt TBSV-derived siRNAs and that exhibited ribonuclease activity that was TBSV sequence-preferential, ssRNA-specific, divalent cation-dependent, and insensitive to a ribonuclease inhibitor. We believe that this study provides biochemical evidence for a virus-host system that infection in the absence of a fully active RNAi suppressor induces ssRNA-specific ribonuclease activity, including that conferred by a RNA-induced silencing complex, which is likely the cause for the recovery of plants from infection.
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