Project description:Plant viruses rely on both host plant and vectors for a successful infection. This study investigated the global transcriptomic changes in Arabidopsis thaliana that were simultaneously exposed to both a plant virus (turnip yellows virus, polerovirus genus and Solemoviridae family) and its aphid vector (Myzus persicae). Some of these modifications in gene expression may promote in a timely manner viral transmission and dispersion.
2023-04-01 | GSE218846 | GEO
Project description:Comparative analysis of complete genome sequences of Cucurbit aphid-borne yellow virus from aphid and melon during transmission
Project description:There are very few studies exploring the genetic diversity of tick-borne encephalitis complex viruses. Most of the viruses have been sequenced using capillary electrophoresis, however, very few viruses have been analyzed using deep sequencing to look at the genotypes in each virus population. In this study, different viruses and strains belonging to the tick-borne encephalitis complex were sequenced and genetic diversity was analyzed. Shannon entropy and single nucleotide variants were used to compare the viruses. Then genetic diversity was compared to the phylogenetic relationship of the viruses.
Project description:The control of insect borne disease is recognized as one of the major agricultural, animal and human health challenges of today. Viruses in the family Luteoviridae are phloem-limited, plant viruses that are vectored by aphids in a circulative manner. They are responsible for a wide-range of economically important disease in almost all staple food crops. In order to be transmitted, these viruses require species-specific passage of the pathogen across several membrane barriers within the insect. After the pathogen is ingested from the sap of an infected plant, the virus moves across and through the aphid gut into the hemoceol (insect blood) where it circulates until it reaches and enters the main or accessory salivary glands. From here, the pathogen is injected into a new plant host when the aphid feeds. The identification of insect proteins that interact with circulative plant viruses is technically challenging and a major goal for the plant vector biology field. Such information is critical to develop novel control strategies that block virus transmission by insects. In this study, we used affinity purification-high-resolution mass spectrometry (AP-MS) to rapidly capture and identify aphid proteins in complex with Potato leafroll virus (PLRV), a luteovirid transmitted by the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), directly from viruliferous aphid tissue.
Project description:Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) is an aphid-borne, RNA virus in the Luteoviridae that causes significant loss to potato production worldwide. Precision methods to block virus infection in plants or the transmission of a virus by the insect represent new approaches to virus disease management and require an in depth knowledge of the protein interactions used by viruses in their plant hosts and aphid vectors. In this study, we evaluated the feasibility of using an inexpensive, bead-free assay to identify plant proteins that interact with wild-type (WT) and PLRV mutant form. Comparison of host and viral proteins identified as enriched ³2-fold in both WT and mutant experiments using the bead-free method revealed a ~65% overlap with proteins identified as forming high-confident interactions with PLRV using antibody coated-magnetic beads with 19 of these proteins also detected as significant interactions in the bead-free assay. An additional 18 virus-host interactions were only identified in the bead-free assay. Two prey proteins, a 14-3-3 signal transduction protein and malate dehydrogenase 2, were identified as having a weakened or lost association with the mutant form of the virus in both immunoprecipitation assays, showing that the method is sensitive enough to detect quantitative differences between different, yet closely related viral bait proteins. Collectively, our analysis shows that the bead-free platform is a low-cost alternative that can be used by core facilities and other investigators to reproducibly identify plant and viral proteins interacting with virions.
Project description:Myzus persicae (green peach aphid) feeding on Arabidopsis thaliana induces a defense response, quantified as reduced aphid progeny production, in infested leaves but not in other parts of the plant. Similarly, infiltration of aphid saliva into Arabidopsis leaves causes only a local increase in aphid resistance. Further characterization of the defense-eliciting salivary components indicates that Arabidopsis recognizes a proteinaceous elicitor with a size between 3 to 10 kD. Genetic analysis using well-characterized Arabidopsis mutant shows that saliva-induced resistance against M. persicae is independent of the known defense signaling pathways involving salicylic acid, jasmonate, and ethylene. Among 78 Arabidopsis genes that were induced by aphid saliva infiltration, 52 had been identified previously as aphid-induced, but few are responsive to the well-known plant defense signaling molecules salicylic acid and jasmonate. Quantitative PCR analysis confirms expression of saliva-induced genes. In particular, expression of a set of O-methyltransferases, which may be involved in the synthesis of aphid-repellent glucosinolates, was significantly up-regulated by both M. persicae feeding and treatment with aphid saliva. However, this did not correlate with increased production of 4-methoxyindol-3-ylmethylglucosinolate, suggesting that aphid salivary components trigger an Arabidopsis defense response that is independent of this aphid-deterrent glucosinolate.