卫星RNA作为黄瓜花叶病毒病生防因子的研究III．卫星RNA对黄瓜花叶病毒感染的烟叶组织中病毒双链RNA含量的影响

用3H尿嘧啶核苷标记、聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳分析、放射自显影等技术以及根据抗RNA酶和DNA酶的性质比较了感染黄瓜花叶病毒(CMV)及其带有卫星RNA的黄瓜花叶病毒(CMV-S52)的三生烟叶组织中病毒ds RNA含量的变化。结果表明,随接种后时间的延长,CMV-S32感染的组织中卫星RNA的ds RNA含量呈直线增长,第10天达最高峰,而病毒基因组RNA的ds RNA的含量则随时间延长而降低,这一趋势一直延续到最后一次测定。卫星RNA的双链RNA含量也比病毒基因组ds RNA高得多,从接种后的第二天的2．5倍到第10天的20倍及第l{天的近40倍,但不含卫星RNA的cMV接种后在所测定的14天内,各基因组RNA的ds RNA含量比较衡定。     

黄瓜花叶病毒致弱卫星RNA对辅助病毒含量的影响

为研究黄瓜花叶病毒(CMV)弱病毒株的基因组RNA和卫星RNA的含量变化,将一个卫星RNA介导的CMV弱病毒株NDM-1与CMV强毒株在4种寄主系统上进行对照实验.采用RNA点杂交方法,检测从早期接种病毒到大田释放阶段（病毒接种后5到40天）,寄主植物叶组织中的基因组RNA和卫星RNA的相对含量变化.结果显示：弱病毒株NDM-1基因组RNA和卫星RNA负荷量具有寄主效应和时间效应,趋势一致但程度不同.它们在番茄上的变化规律不同于其他寄主而且病毒的致弱效果最明显：在接种后的5～10天 (生产上接种育苗的保护期) ,基因组RNA和卫星RNA相对含量上升,到40天(大田释放期) 时回落至最低.比较NDM-1于不同时间在各寄主上的卫星RNA和基因组RNA的相对比值：在40天时,寄主番茄上的相对比值达15.8,与在其他寄主上和其他时间段比较均有显著差异,即此时卫星RNA达到含量优势.说明弱病毒NDM-1在番茄上的致弱机制为:卫星RNA的大量复制对CMV基因组RNA产生抑制作用.此弱病毒株在烟草和心叶烟中的变化规律基本一致.     

含卫星RNA的黄瓜花叶病毒弱株系的分离鉴定及在病毒病防治上的应用

从豌豆上分离获得黄瓜花叶病毒分离物ＣＭＶＰ１,摩擦接种９科２９种植物,ＣＭＶＰｌ在大多数植物上症状很轻或无任何症状,提纯的病毒颗粒为球形,直径约２８ｎｍ,病毒衣壳蛋白亚基分子量约２７．５ｋＤ,所含核酸有五个组份,即ＣＭＶＰ１含有卫星ＲＮＡ。ＣＭＶＰ１接种三生烟后８－１２天内呈轻花叶,此时组织中病毒含量最高,随后症状消失,去除卫星ＲＮＡ能加重ＣＭＶＰ１在番茄上的症状,因而是卫星ＲＮＡ减轻了ＣＭＶＰｌ的病状。当ＣＭＶＰ１保护接种番茄后攻强毒,番茄发病率低,病情轻,保护率达９０％以上,并有一定的刺激生长作用,还能提早开花４天,植株结果数增多,成熟果实的颜色、形态、品质和重量均正常。ＣＭＶＰ１对烟草亦具有很好的保护效果。保护接种的植株能明显减少强毒株侵染,可减少９０％以上。     

RNA:诱导基因沉默

在生物体中 ,双链RNA (double strandRNA ,dsRNA)裂解后的小RNA可以诱导细胞质和基因组水平外源基因沉默。所谓基因沉默 (genesilencing)是指生物体中特定基因由于种种原因不表达。小RNA能诱导互补信使RNA在转录后降解 ,对于植物 ,可通过同源DNA序列甲基化使转录基因沉默。RNA沉默是基因组水平的免疫现象 ,代表了进化过程中原始的基因组对抗外源基因序列表达的保护机制 ,在动植物进化中起着重要作用 ,RNA沉默具有抵抗病毒入侵、抑制转座子活动、防止自私基因序列的过量增殖等作用 ,并调控蛋白编码基因的表达 ,具有十分诱人的应用前景     

系统侵染寄主中黄瓜花叶病毒及其卫星RNA的动态变化

以³²P标记的黄瓜花叶病毒（CMV）RNA3 cDNA片段和卫星RNA全长cDNA作为探针,定量测定CMV基因组RNA和卫星RNA的含量变化,结果显示：二者均具有明显的寄主效应和时间效应.在16～20℃条件下,接种不携带卫星RNA的分离物CMV-R3,15天、30天和75天时,CMV基因组RNA负荷量呈显著下降的趋势.在第15天,RNA3的负荷量以烟草>心叶烟>克里夫兰烟>番茄的顺序表现为不同寄主的显著性差异.相同条件下接种携带高拷贝卫星RNA的分离物CMV-RS,在5天和15天之间基因组RNA和卫星RNA负荷量均呈现上升的趋势,同时测得其基因组RNA和卫星的负荷量具有相似的寄主效应和时间效应,但程度不同.第15天时,二者负荷量以烟草＞心叶烟＞番茄的顺序表现寄主效应的显著性差异.在18～21℃条件下,接种携带坏死卫星RNA的CMV强毒株HC4,第5天、第10天和第15天时,基因组RNA和卫星RNA的负荷量均以番茄＞心叶烟＞烟草的顺序表现出显著性差异,并表现出明显的时间效应.不同来源CMV分离物还存在寄主选择性差异.     

RNA:诱导基因沉默

在生物体中,双链RNA(double-strand RNA,dsRNA)裂解后的小RNA可以诱导细胞质和基因组水平外源基因沉默。所谓基因沉默(gene silencing)是指生物体中特定基因由于种种原因不表达。小RNA能诱导互补信使RNA在转录后降解。RNA沉默是基因组水平的免疫现象,代表了进化过程中原始的基因组对抗外源基因序列表达的保护机制,在动植物进化中起着重要作用,RNA沉默具有抵抗病毒入侵、抑制转座子活动等作用,并调控蛋白编码基因的表达,具有十分诱人的应用前景。     

黄瓜花叶病毒株系间交叉保护作用与卫星RNA干扰作用的比较研究

用除了卫星RNA和含有卫星RNA的CMV分离物在烟草和甜椒上进行了两组不同设计的温室实验。一组在不同保护接种后,在不同时间攻强毒CMV;另一组在不同保护接种后,在同一时间攻强毒CMV。攻毒后进行寄主症状调查、病情指数统计以及强毒CMV的A蛋白夹层ELISA测定,发现交叉保护和卫星RNA干扰作用在体内都存在,但其作用时间和程度不同。交叉保护在保护接种后10—15d以前明显,15d以后很弱;而卫星RNA干扰作用则很强,尤其在保护接种10d以后保护很完全,并且维持到30d以后。     

RNA沉默与植物病毒

植物中RNA沉默（RNAsilencing)亦称为转录后基因沉默（PTGS）或共抑制,是植物抵抗外来核酸（转座子、转基因或病毒）入侵,并保护自身基因组完整性的一种防御机制。RNA沉默是近十年来发现的植物界中普遍存在的现象,已成为植物分子生物学领域的一个新的研究方向。对RNA沉默特点和机制的研究表明,植物病毒与（转基因）植物内发生的RNA沉默有着密切的联系,作者从病毒对RNA沉默的诱导、抑制、防御等方面,简述了RNA沉默与病毒的关系。并对病毒载体所诱导的RNA沉默在植物发育和基因组功能分析等方面的应用价值进行了讨论。     

卫星RNA研究新进展：结构与功能表达

植物病毒卫星通常是指那些如果没有特定辅助病毒的帮助就不能复制,而它本身对于辅助病毒的复制是不必需的,且与辅助病毒的基因组无序列同源性的一类RNA分子。到目前为止,已报道有六组共26种植物病毒带有卫星。这些植物病毒卫星有的具有编码自身外壳蛋白的遗传信息,称卫星病毒;有的无此编码功能称为病毒卫星RNA。病毒卫星RNA在其发现的早期,其生物学功能尚不为人重视。然而,七十年代早期,在法国阿尔萨斯爆发的由黄瓜花叶病毒(Cucumber Mosaic Virus,CMV)侵染引起的番茄作物坏死病被确定与CMV卫星RNA有关,至此,关于卫星RNA的生物     

黄瓜花叶病毒基因组不同部分及卫星RNA介导的对植株的保护及其作用机理

根据病原物介导的对自身抗性的理论,大量开展了将CMV基因组的单个或多个片断转入植物体内的研究,从而使该植株能够抵抗或延迟受CMV的侵染,CP,RP,MP基因是CMV基因组的重要组成部分,用来转化植株取得了不同程度的抗性效果,另外有些CMV株中存在着起致弱作用的卫星RNA,直接对植株接种含卫星RNA的CMV弱毒或用卫星RNA的cDNA转化植株都会减轻CMV强毒对该植株的侵害,CMV基因组不同组分进入植物体内后,它们对植株产生保护作用的机理不同,文中分别加以阐述。     

Resistance of tomato infected with cucumber mosaic virus satellite RNA to potato spindle tuber viroid

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum cvs Rutgers and Lichun) plants were firstly pre-inoculated either with a cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) isolate containing satellite RNA (CMV-S52) or with a CMV isolate without satellite RNA, and then challenged 14 days later with a severe strain of potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). Also, tomato plants transformed with CMV satellite cDNA and non-transgenic control plants were directly inoculated with PSTVd. Protection effects were assessed by the observation of symptoms and by assay of PSTVd accumulation in tomato plants using return polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver staining. The results indicated that the satellite-transgenic plants and plants pre-inoculated with CMV-S52 showed much milder symptoms of PSTVd infection than the respective control plants. The concentration of PSTVd RNA in the satellite-transgenic plants and CMV-S52 pre-inoculated plants was reduced to about 0.02-0.03 of the controls. PSTVd infection did not increase the amount of satellite ds-RNA in plants. It is concluded that the plant resistance to PSTVd is induced by the presence of satellite RNA rather than the CMV infection. It is suggested that as there is considerable sequence similarity between satellite RNA and PSTVd, base pairings may be a cause of reduction of both symptoms and the accumulation of PSTVd.     

Resistance of tomato infected with cucumber mosaic virus satellite RNA to potato spindle tuber viroid

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum cvs Rutgers and Lichun) plants were firstly pre-inoculated either with a cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) isolate containing satellite RNA (CMV-S52) or with a CMV isolate without satellite RNA, and then challenged 14 days later with a severe strain of potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). Also, tomato plants transformed with CMV satellite cDNA and non-transgenic control plants were directly inoculated with PSTVd. Protection effects were assessed by the observation of symptoms and by assay of PSTVd accumulation in tomato plants using return polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and silver staining. The results indicated that the satellite-transgenic plants and plants pre-inoculated with CMV-S52 showed much milder symptoms of PSTVd infection than the respective control plants. The concentration of PSTVd RNA in the satellite-transgenic plants and CMV-S52 pre-inoculated plants was reduced to about 0.02–0.03 of the controls. PSTVd infection did not increase the amount of satellite ds-RNA in plants. It is concluded that the plant resistance to PSTVd is induced by the presence of satellite RNA rather than the CMV infection. It is suggested that as there is considerable sequence similarity between satellite RNA and PSTVd, base pairings may be a cause of reduction of both symptoms and the accumulation of PSTVd.     

Anti-sense regions in satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus form stable complexes with the viral coat protein gene.

The interaction in vitro of the RNA of the Q-strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) with its satellite RNA (sat-RNA) has been studied. In hybridisation reactions containing 30% formamide at 45 degrees, sat-RNA binds to CMV RNA 3 and 4 but not to CMV RNA 1 and 2 or RNA from tobacco mosaic virus and alfalfa mosaic virus. The viral coat protein gene present in RNA 3 and 4 contains the site of binding but this region does not contain complementary sequences of any significant length to the sat-RNA sequence. However, the optimum alignment of short complementary sequences present in these regions revealed a stable structure in which it is proposed that sat-RNA twists around the coat protein gene so that two separate blocks of nucleotides in sat-RNA base pair in opposite directions with two adjacent blocks in the coat protein gene to form a knot-like structure. The binding site is a region of 33 nucleotides within the coding region of the coat protein gene which base pairs with residues 98-113 and 134-152 of sat-RNA. The possibility of the binding region of sat-RNA functioning as an "anti-sense" sequence in regulation of the viral coat protein synthesis is discussed.     

Role of satellite RNA of an Indian isolate of cucumber mosaic virus in inducing lethal necrosis of tobacco plants

Lethal necrosis or systemic stem necrosis followed by death of Nicotiana benthamiana, severe leaf deformations of N. tabacum cv. white burley and blister formations on N. tabacum cv. samsun NN symptoms were induced by experimental inoculations of CMV RNA preparations containing satellite RNA (sat-RNA). Inoculations of RNA preparations without sat-RNA did not induce that severe symptoms on these plants, only late mild mosaic was observed. It is suggested that sat-RNA of CMV isolate has a certain role for enhancing severity of symptoms in tobacco plants. Local and systemic lethal necrosis of N. benthamiana is due to sat-RNA present with genome of CMV isolate. It is the first report of lethal necrosis induced in N. benthamiana by CMV satellite.     

Symptom attenuation by a normally virulent satellite RNA of turnip crinkle virus is associated with the coat protein open reading frame.

Many satellite RNAs (sat-RNAs) can attenuate or intensify the symptoms produced by their helper virus. Sat-RNA C, associated with turnip crinkle virus (TCV), was previously found to intensify the symptoms of TCV on all plants in which TCV produced visible symptoms. However, when the coat protein open reading frame (ORF) of TCV was precisely exchanged with that of cardamine chlorotic fleck virus, sat-RNA C attenuated the moderate symptoms of the chimeric virus when Arabidopsis plants were coinoculated with the chimeric virus. Symptom attenuation was correlated with a reduction in viral RNA levels in inoculated and uninoculated leaves. In protoplasts, the presence of sat-RNA C resulted in a reduction of approximately 70% in the chimeric viral genomic RNA at 44 hr postinoculation, whereas the sat-RNA wa consistently amplified to higher levels by the chimeric virus than by wild-type TCV. TCV with a deletion of the coat protein ORF also resulted in a similar increase in sat-RNA C levels in protoplasts, indicating that the TVC coat protein, or its ORF, downregulates the synthesis of sat-RNA C. These results suggest that the coat protein or its ORF is a viral determinant for symptom modulation by sat-RNA C, and symptom attenuation is at least partly due to inhibition of virus accumulation.     

Satellite RNA for the control of plant diseases caused by cucumber mosaic virus

Two virus-protecting strains, S₅₁ and S₅₂, were obtained for the control of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) by local lesion selection after adding satellite RNA to the RNA genome of CMV. Both were found to protect pepper plants against a virulent strain of CMV under greenhouse and field conditions. Results from 14 localities in China indicated that the use of protective strains decreased the disease index by 21.6% to 82.8% and increased fruit yields by 10.8% to 55.6%. The host reactions and safety of S₅₁ and S₅₂ were tested, and the effects of the strains on plant growth were also investigated. Possible mechanisms of control of CMV-caused plant diseases by mild strains are discussed.     

Transgenic tobacco plants expressing the coat protein of cucumber mosaic virus show different virus resistance

Transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi-nc) plants were regenerated after cocultivation of leaf explants withAgrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 harboring a plasmid that contained the coat protein (CP) gene of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV-As). PCR and Southern blot analyses revealed that the CMV CP gene was successfully introduced into the genomic DNA of the transgenic tobacco plants. Transgenic plants (CP⁺) expressing CP were obtained and used for screening the virus resistance. They could be categorized into three types after inoculation with the virus: virus-resistant, delay of symptom development, and susceptible type. Most of the CP⁺ transgenic tobacco plants failed to develop symptoms or showed systemic symptom development delayed for 5 to 42 days as compared to those of nontransgenic control plants after challenged with the same virus. However, some CP⁺ transgenic plants were highly susceptible after inoculation with the virus. Our results suggest that the CP-mediated viral resistance is readily applicable to CMV disease in other crops.