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J. Virol., 01 1998, 358-365, Vol 72, No. 1
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology

Potato leafroll virus binds to the equatorial domain of the aphid endosymbiotic GroEL homolog

SA Hogenhout, F van der Wilk, M Verbeek, RW Goldbach and JF van den Heuvel
Department of Virology, DLO Research Institute for Plant Protection, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

A GroEL homolog with a molecular mass of 60 kDa, produced by the primary endosymbiotic bacterium (a Buchnera sp.) of Myzus persicae and released into the hemolymph, has previously been shown to be a key protein in the transmission of potato leafroll virus (PLRV). Like other luteoviruses and pea enation mosaic virus, PLRV readily binds to extracellular Buchnera GroEL, and in vivo interference in this interaction coincides with reduced capsid integrity and loss of infectivity. To gain more knowledge of the nature of the association between PLRV and Buchnera GroEL, the groE operon of the primary endosymbiont of M. persicae (MpB groE) and its flanking sequences were characterized and the PLRV-binding domain of Buchnera GroEL was identified by deletion mutant analysis. MpB GroEL has extensive sequence similarity (92%) with Escherichia coli GroEL and other members of the chaperonin-60 family. The genomic organization of the Buchnera groE operon is similar to that of the groE operon of E. coli except that a constitutive promoter sequence could not be identified; only the heat shock promoter was present. By a virus overlay assay of protein blots, it was shown that purified PLRV bound as efficiently to recombinant MpB GroEL (expressed in E. coli) as it did to wild-type MpB GroEL. Mutational analysis of the gene encoding MpB GroEL revealed that the PLRV-binding site was located in the so-called equatorial domain and not in the apical domain which is generally involved in polypeptide binding and folding. Buchnera GroEL mutants lacking the entire equatorial domain or parts of it lost the ability to bind PLRV. The equatorial domain is made up of two regions at the N and C termini that are not contiguous in the amino acid sequence but are in spatial proximity after folding of the GroEL polypeptide. Both the N- and C- terminal regions of the equatorial domain were implicated in virus binding.

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