Inducible resistance to maize streak virus.
Maize streak virus (MSV), which causes maize streak disease (MSD), is the major viral pathogenic constraint on maize production in Africa. Type member of the Mastrevirus genus in the family Geminiviridae, MSV has a 2.7 kb, single-stranded circular DNA genome encoding a coat protein, movement protein...
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| author | Dionne N Shepherd Benjamin Dugdale Darren P Martin Arvind Varsani Francisco M Lakay Marion E Bezuidenhout Adérito L Monjane Jennifer A Thomson James Dale Edward P Rybicki |
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| description | Maize streak virus (MSV), which causes maize streak disease (MSD), is the major viral pathogenic constraint on maize production in Africa. Type member of the Mastrevirus genus in the family Geminiviridae, MSV has a 2.7 kb, single-stranded circular DNA genome encoding a coat protein, movement protein, and the two replication-associated proteins Rep and RepA. While we have previously developed MSV-resistant transgenic maize lines constitutively expressing "dominant negative mutant" versions of the MSV Rep, the only transgenes we could use were those that caused no developmental defects during the regeneration of plants in tissue culture. A better transgene expression system would be an inducible one, where resistance-conferring transgenes are expressed only in MSV-infected cells. However, most known inducible transgene expression systems are hampered by background or "leaky" expression in the absence of the inducer. Here we describe an adaptation of the recently developed INPACT system to express MSV-derived resistance genes in cell culture. Split gene cassette constructs (SGCs) were developed containing three different transgenes in combination with three different promoter sequences. In each SGC, the transgene was split such that it would be translatable only in the presence of an infecting MSV's replication associated protein. We used a quantitative real-time PCR assay to show that one of these SGCs (pSPLITrepIII-Rb-Ubi) inducibly inhibits MSV replication as efficiently as does a constitutively expressed transgene that has previously proven effective in protecting transgenic maize from MSV. In addition, in our cell-culture based assay pSPLITrepIII-Rb-Ubi inhibited replication of diverse MSV strains, and even, albeit to a lesser extent, of a different mastrevirus species. The application of this new technology to MSV resistance in maize could allow a better, more acceptable product. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a56edbccd06545369df91d37df69ab412022-12-22T00:58:10ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0198e10593210.1371/journal.pone.0105932Inducible resistance to maize streak virus.Dionne N ShepherdBenjamin DugdaleDarren P MartinArvind VarsaniFrancisco M LakayMarion E BezuidenhoutAdérito L MonjaneJennifer A ThomsonJames DaleEdward P RybickiMaize streak virus (MSV), which causes maize streak disease (MSD), is the major viral pathogenic constraint on maize production in Africa. Type member of the Mastrevirus genus in the family Geminiviridae, MSV has a 2.7 kb, single-stranded circular DNA genome encoding a coat protein, movement protein, and the two replication-associated proteins Rep and RepA. While we have previously developed MSV-resistant transgenic maize lines constitutively expressing "dominant negative mutant" versions of the MSV Rep, the only transgenes we could use were those that caused no developmental defects during the regeneration of plants in tissue culture. A better transgene expression system would be an inducible one, where resistance-conferring transgenes are expressed only in MSV-infected cells. However, most known inducible transgene expression systems are hampered by background or "leaky" expression in the absence of the inducer. Here we describe an adaptation of the recently developed INPACT system to express MSV-derived resistance genes in cell culture. Split gene cassette constructs (SGCs) were developed containing three different transgenes in combination with three different promoter sequences. In each SGC, the transgene was split such that it would be translatable only in the presence of an infecting MSV's replication associated protein. We used a quantitative real-time PCR assay to show that one of these SGCs (pSPLITrepIII-Rb-Ubi) inducibly inhibits MSV replication as efficiently as does a constitutively expressed transgene that has previously proven effective in protecting transgenic maize from MSV. In addition, in our cell-culture based assay pSPLITrepIII-Rb-Ubi inhibited replication of diverse MSV strains, and even, albeit to a lesser extent, of a different mastrevirus species. The application of this new technology to MSV resistance in maize could allow a better, more acceptable product.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4148390?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Dionne N Shepherd Benjamin Dugdale Darren P Martin Arvind Varsani Francisco M Lakay Marion E Bezuidenhout Adérito L Monjane Jennifer A Thomson James Dale Edward P Rybicki Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. PLoS ONE |
| title | Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. |
| title_full | Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. |
| title_fullStr | Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. |
| title_short | Inducible resistance to maize streak virus. |
| title_sort | inducible resistance to maize streak virus |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4148390?pdf=render |
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