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Journal of Virology, November 2005, p. 14222-14234, Vol. 79, No. 22
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.22.14222-14234.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Interaction between Brome Mosaic Virus Proteins and RNAs: Effects on RNA Replication, Protein Expression, and RNA Stability

K. Gopinath,1 B. Dragnea,2 and C. Kao1*

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843,1 Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 474052

Received 3 June 2005/ Accepted 20 August 2005

Brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA replication has been examined in a number of systems, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We developed an efficient T-DNA-based gene delivery system using Agrobacterium tumefaciens to transiently express BMV RNAs in Nicotiana benthamiana. The expressed RNAs can systemically infect plants and provide material to extract BMV replicase that can perform template-dependent RNA-dependent RNA synthesis in vitro. We also expressed the four BMV-encoded proteins from nonreplicating RNAs and analyzed their effects on BMV RNA accumulation. The capsid protein that coinfiltrated with constructs expressing RNA1 and RNA2 suppressed minus-strand levels but increased plus-strand RNA accumulation. The replication proteins 1a and 2a could function in trans to replicate and transcribe the BMV RNAs. None of the BMV proteins or RNA could efficiently suppress posttranscriptional silencing. However, 1a expressed in trans will suppress the production of a recombinant green fluorescent protein expressed from the nontranslated portions of BMV RNA1 and RNA2, suggesting that 1a may regulate translation from BMV RNAs. BMV replicase proteins 1a did not affect the accumulation of the BMV RNAs in the absence of RNA replication, unlike the situation reported for S. cerevisiae. This work demonstrates that the Agrobacterium-mediated gene delivery system can be used to study the cis- and trans-acting requirements for BMV RNA replication in plants and that significant differences can exist for BMV RNA replication in different hosts.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Phone: (979) 458-2235. Fax: (979) 845-9274. E-mail: ckao{at}tamu.edu.

Journal of Virology, November 2005, p. 14222-14234, Vol. 79, No. 22
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.22.14222-14234.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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