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Journal of Virology, October 2006, p. 10055-10063, Vol. 80, No. 20
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.00985-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

RNA Silencing Suppression by a Second Copy of the P1 Serine Protease of Cucumber Vein Yellowing Ipomovirus, a Member of the Family Potyviridae That Lacks the Cysteine Protease HCPro{dagger}

Adrian Valli,1 Ana Montserrat Martín-Hernández,2 Juan José López-Moya,2 and Juan Antonio García1*

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain,1 Laboratori de Genètica Molecular Vegetal, Consorci CSIC-IRTA, Ctra de Cabrils, s/n, 08348 Cabrils (Barcelona), Spain2

Received 12 May 2006/ Accepted 26 July 2006

The P1 protein of viruses of the family Potyviridae is a serine proteinase, which is highly variable in length and sequence, and its role in the virus infection cycle is not clear. One of the proposed activities of P1 is to assist HCPro, the product that viruses of the genus Potyvirus use to counteract antiviral defense mediated by RNA silencing. Indeed, an HCPro-coding region is present in all the genomes of members of the genera Potyvirus, Rymovirus, and Tritimovirus that have been sequenced. However, it was recently reported that a sequence coding for HCPro is lacking in the genome of Cucumber vein yellowing virus (CVYV), a member of the genus Ipomovirus, the fourth monopartite genus of the family. In this study, we provide further evidence that P1 enhances the activity of HCPro in members of the genus Potyvirus and show that it is duplicated in the ipomovirus CVYV. The two CVYV P1 copies are arranged in tandem, and the second copy (P1b) has RNA silencing suppression activity. CVYV P1b suppressed RNA silencing induced either by sense green fluorescent protein (GFP) mRNA or by a GFP inverted repeat RNA, indicating that CVYV P1b acts downstream of the formation of double-stranded RNA. CVYV P1b also suppressed local silencing in agroinfiltrated patches of transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana line 16c and delayed its propagation to the neighboring cells. However, neither the short-distance nor long-distance systemic spread of silencing of the GFP transgene was completely blocked by CVYV P1b. CVYV P1b and P1-HCPro from the potyvirus Plum pox virus showed very similar behaviors in all the assays carried out, suggesting that evolution has found a way to counteract RNA silencing by similar mechanisms using very different proteins in viruses of the same family.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-CSIC, Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34-915854535. Fax: 34-915854506. E-mail: jagarcia{at}cnb.uam.es.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jvi.asm.org/.

Journal of Virology, October 2006, p. 10055-10063, Vol. 80, No. 20
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.00985-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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