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Journal of Virology, April 2006, p. 3781-3791, Vol. 80, No. 8
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.80.8.3781-3791.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cap-Independent Translation Mechanism of Red Clover Necrotic Mosaic Virus RNA2 Differs from That of RNA1 and Is Linked to RNA Replication

Hiroyuki Mizumoto ,{dagger},{ddagger} Hiro-oki Iwakawa,{dagger} Masanori Kaido, Kazuyuki Mise, and Tetsuro Okuno*

Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

Received 26 October 2005/ Accepted 25 January 2006

The genome of Red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) in the genus Dianthovirus is divided into two RNA molecules of RNA1 and RNA2, which have no cap structure at the 5' end and no poly(A) tail at the 3' end. The 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) of RCNMV RNA1 contains an essential RNA element (3'TE-DR1), which is required for cap-independent translation. In this study, we investigated a cap-independent translational mechanism of RNA2 using a firefly luciferase (Luc) gene expression assay system in cowpea protoplasts and a cell-free lysate (BYL) prepared from evacuolated tobacco BY2 protoplasts. We were unable to detect cis-acting RNA sequences in RNA2 that can replace the function of a cap structure, such as the 3'TE-DR1 of RNA1. However, the uncapped reporter RNA2, RNA2-Luc, in which the Luc open reading frame (ORF) was inserted between the 5' UTR and the movement protein ORF, was effectively translated in the presence of p27 and p88 in protoplasts in which RNA2-Luc was replicated. Time course experiments in protoplasts showed that the translational activity of RNA2-Luc did not reflect the amount of RNA2. Mutations in cis-acting RNA replication elements of RNA2 abolished the cap-independent translational activity of RNA2-Luc, suggesting that the translational activity of RNA2-Luc is coupled to RNA replication. Our results show that the translational mechanism differs between two segmented genomic RNAs of RCNMV. We present a model in which only RNA2 that is generated de novo through the viral RNA replication machinery functions as mRNA for translation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. Phone: 81-75-753-6131. Fax: 81-75-753-6131. E-mail: okuno{at}kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

{dagger} These authors equally contributed to this work.

{ddagger} Present address: National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency, 2-17-5 Maruishi, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0452, Japan.

Journal of Virology, April 2006, p. 3781-3791, Vol. 80, No. 8
0022-538X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.80.8.3781-3791.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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