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Journal of Virology, October 1999, p. 8732-8740, Vol. 73, No. 10
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Functional Analysis of the Interaction between VPg-Proteinase (NIa) and RNA Polymerase (NIb) of Tobacco Etch Potyvirus, Using Conditional and Suppressor Mutants

José-Antonio Daròs, Mary C. Schaad, and James C. Carrington*

Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-6340

Received 20 April 1999/Accepted 8 July 1999

The tobacco etch potyvirus (TEV) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (NIb) has been shown to interact with the proteinase domain of the VPg-proteinase (NIa). To investigate the significance of this interaction, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae two-hybrid assay was used to isolate conditional NIa mutant proteins with temperature-sensitive (ts) defects in interacting with NIb. Thirty-six unique tsNIa mutants with substitutions affecting the proteinase domain were recovered. Most of the mutants coded for proteins with little or no proteolytic activity at permissive and nonpermissive temperatures. However, three mutant proteins retained proteolytic activity at both temperatures and, in two cases (tsNIa-Q384P and tsNIa-N393D), the mutations responsible for the ts interaction phenotype could be mapped to single positions. One of the mutations (N393D) conferred a ts-genome-amplification phenotype when it was placed in a recombinant TEV strain. Suppressor NIb mutants that restored interaction with the tsNIa-N393D protein at the restrictive temperature were recovered by a two-hybrid selection system. Although most of the suppressor mutants failed to stimulate amplification of genomes encoding the tsNIa-N393D protein, two suppressors (NIb-I94T and NIb-C380R) stimulated amplification of virus containing the N393D substitution by approximately sevenfold. These results support the hypothesis that interaction between NIa and NIb is important during TEV genome replication.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6340. Phone: (509) 335-2477. Fax: (509) 335-2482. E-mail: carrington{at}wsu.edu.

Journal of Virology, October 1999, p. 8732-8740, Vol. 73, No. 10
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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