Genetic analysis of an attenuated Papaya ringspot virus strain applied for cross-protection |
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Authors: | Chu-Hui Chiang Chun-Yee Lee Ching-Hsien Wang Fuh-Jyh Jan Shih-Shun Lin Tsung-Chi Chen Joseph A. J. Raja Shyi-Dong Yeh |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Da Yeh University, Chang Hwa, Taiwan;(2) Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) HA 5-1, a nitrous acid-induced mild mutant of severe strain HA, widely applied for control of PRSV by cross-protection, was used to study the genetic basis of attenuation. Using infectious clones, a series of recombinants was generated between HA 5-1 and HA and their infectivity was analyzed on the systemic host papaya and the local lesion host Chenopodium quinoa. The recombinants that contained mutations in P1 and HC-Pro genes caused attenuated infection on papaya without conspicuous symptoms, similar to HA 5-1. The recombination and sequence analyses strongly implicated two amino acid changes in the C-terminal region of P1 and two in HC-Pro of HA 5-1 involved in the attenuated infection on papaya. The recombinants that infected C. quinoa plants without local lesions contained the same mutations in the C-terminal region of HC-Pro for attenuated infection on papaya. We conclude that both P1 and HC-Pro bear important pathogenicity determinants for the infection on the systemic host papaya and that the mutations in HC-Pro affecting pathogenicity on papaya are also responsible for the inability to induce hypersensitive reaction on C. quinoa. |
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