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Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 2876-2885, Vol. 73, No. 4
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Primary and Secondary Structural Elements Required for Synthesis of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Subgenomic RNA1dagger

Gennadiy Koev, B. R. Mohan,Dagger and W. Allen Miller*

Plant Pathology Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1020

Received 12 October 1998/Accepted 4 January 1999

Barley yellow dwarf luteovirus (BYDV) generates three 3'-coterminal subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) in infected cells. The promoter of sgRNA1 is a putative hot spot for RNA recombination in luteovirus evolution. The sgRNA1 transcription start site was mapped previously to either nucleotide 2670 or nucleotide 2769 of BYDV genomic RNA (gRNA) in two independent studies. Our data support the former initiation site. The boundaries of the sgRNA1 promoter map between nucleotides 2595 and 2692 on genomic RNA. Computer prediction, phylogenetic comparison, and structural probing revealed two stem-loops (SL1 and SL2) in the sgRNA1 promoter region on the negative strand. Promoter function was analyzed by inoculating protoplasts with a full-length infectious clone of the BYDV genome containing mutations in the sgRNA promoter. Because the promoter is located in an essential coding region of the replicase gene, we duplicated it in a nonessential part of the genome from which a new sgRNA was expressed. Mutational analysis revealed that secondary structure, but not the nucleotide sequence, was important at the base of SL1. Regions with both RNA primary and secondary structural features that contributed to transcription initiation were found at the top of SL1. Primary sequence, but not the secondary structure, was required in SL2, which includes the initiation site. Disruption of base pairing near the sgRNA1 start site increased the level of transcription three- to fourfold. We propose that both primary and secondary structures of the sgRNA1 promoter of BYDV play unique roles in sgRNA1 promoter recognition and transcription initiation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Plant Pathology Department, 351 Bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1020. Phone: (515) 294-2436. Fax: (515) 294-9420. E-mail: wamiller{at}iastate.edu.

dagger Paper no. J-18114 of the Iowa State University Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station Project 3545.

Dagger Present address: Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076.

Journal of Virology, April 1999, p. 2876-2885, Vol. 73, No. 4
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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