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玉米褪绿斑驳病毒(Maize chlorotic mottle virus,MCMV)
The genome organization of the single viral RNA of MCMV is most similar to panicum mosaic virus (PMV). Key taxonomic features of the genus Machlomovirus are a unique open reading frame(ORF) at the 5′end of the genome that largely overlaps the pre-readthrough portion of the viral replicase gene, and a readthrough ORF preceding and overlapping the CP gene near the 3′end of the genome.
The virion consists of a 4437 nt single-stranded RNA surrounded by 25.1 kDa CP subunits that lack the protruding domain found on CPs of viruses from many genera in the family Tombusviridae. Sequence similarity to the CPs of PMV, tobacco necrosis virus genus Necrovirus, family Tombusviridae, and southern bean mosaic virus genus Sobemovirus suggest that MCMV is a T = 3 icosahedral virion with 180 copies of its CP in the viral shell.
The plus-sense RNA is 4437 nt long and contains seven overlapping ORFs that encode proteins of 7 kDa or larger. The RNA was reported to have no poly(A) tail and an m7 G cap at the 5′end. However, in common with other viruses in the family, the encoded MCMV replicase does
not have any motifs characteristic of the methyltransferase domain found in viral replicases of capped RNA viruses. None of the other MCMV-encoded proteins contain a methyltransferase domain, so it is likely that the RNA in MCMV, like in other members of the family, is in fact uncapped. The 5′UTR is 117 nt long, and ORF1 encodes a 32 kDa highly acidic protein. ORF2 begins 19 nt downstream and encodes a 50 kDa highly basic protein so the migration of these two proteins in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gels is likely to be anomalous. Suppression of the UAG stop codon of ORF2 would produce a 111 kDa protein. A cluster of four ORFs is encoded in the 30 third of the viral RNA downstream of the transcription start site for
the 1467-nt-long subgenomic RNA1 (sgRNA1). ORF4 encodes a 7.5 kDa protein (p7a), and suppression of its UGA stop codon would produce a 31 kDa protein. The second AUG of sgRNA1 begins ORF7 which encodes the viral CP. ORF6 was identified by similarity of its gene product p7b to small peptides encoded in similar locations on carmoviruses, necroviruses, and PMV, and it begins with a noncanonical start codon. In vitro translation of MCMV virion RNA in rabbit reticulocyte lysate produces p32, p50, p111, and p25. The two 7 kDa peptides and p31 were not detected in rabbit reticulocyte lysate translations. The 3′UTR is 343 nt long and encodes a 337-nt-long sgRNA2.
The replication strategy of MCMV has not been completely determined, but inoculation of maize protoplasts with transcripts from wild type and mutant versions of an infectious cDNA has provided some information. Transcripts with mutations in the 30third of the genome that stop expression of one or more of the proteins encoded on sgRNA1 are capable of replication. Additionally, mutations just upstream of the sgRNA1 transcription start site that stop expression of sgRNA1 but do not alter the sequence of p111 are capable of replication, indicating that none of the proteins encoded on sgRNA1 are necessary for replication. Based on the replication mechanisms of other tombusvirus family members it is likely that after virion disassembly, MCMV viral RNA is translated to produce the viral replicase which then synthesizes the negative strand of genomic RNA after recognizing sequences and structures located at the viral 3′terminus that have sequence and structural similarities to the promoters of carmoviruses. The com-
plementary strand is then used as template for synthesis of progeny viral RNA strands. sgRNA synthesis mechanisms differ between genera in the family Tombusviridae, and it is not known which mechanism is used by MCMV. sgRNA1 synthesis may initiate by replicase binding internally to the sgRNA promoter on the genomic complementary strand. Alternatively, occasional premature termination of viral complementary strand synthesis at a specific location may produce separate complementary strand copies of sgRNA1 that are used as templates to synthesize many copies of sgRNA1. Although sgRNA2 accumulates in infected maize plants and inoculated protoplasts, its function and method of transcription are not known.
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