Selective allele loss and interference between cauliflower mosaic virus DNAs |
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Authors: | Ulrich Melcher In Seong Choe Genevieve Lebeurier Ken Richards and Richard C Essenberg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, Oklahoma State University, 74078 Stillwater, OK, USA;(2) Laboratory of Virology, IBMC, CNRS, 15, rue Descartes, F-67000 Strasbourg, France;(3) Present address: Division of Allergy and Immunology, University of Tennessee Medical School, 38163 Memphis, TN, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Some cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) alleles are selectively lost during growth of the virus in mixedly infected turnip plants. Viral DNA from plants co-inoculated with DNA of the cabbage S isolate and infectious cabbage S DNA with an extra EcoRI restriciion site lacked the extra site. The EcoRI allele was also lost in most plants co-inoculated with a non-infectious mutant of cabbage S DNA while little selective allele loss was observed with two other non-infectious mutant DNAs. Plants co-inoculated with DNAs of closely-related isolates (CM4-184 and W) contained both parental viral DNAs and some DNAs with characteristics of both parents. Interference, scored as a reduced frequency of infection or a delay in symptom appearance relative to plants inoculated with wild-type DNA, occurred when plants were inoculated with wild-type and mutant DNAs covalently attached to one another in partial dimer plasmid DNAs. Similarities in the conditions leading to selective allele loss and those leading to interference suggest that both may have been due to active gene conversion between CaMV DNA molecules. |
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Keywords: | Caulimoviruses Gene conversion Interference Recombination Turnip |
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