Bouvaine, Sophie ORCID: 0000-0002-0788-3243, Boonham, Neil and Douglas, Angela E. (2011) Interactions between a luteovirus and the GroEL chaperonin protein of the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola of aphids. Journal of General Virology, 92 (6). pp. 1467-1474. ISSN 0022-1317 (Print), 1465-2099 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.029355-0)

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Abstract

Luteoviruses and poleroviruses are important plant viruses transmitted exclusively by aphids in a circulative manner via the aphid haemolymph. A chaperonin protein, GroEL, synthesized in aphids by a symbiotic bacterium, Buchnera aphidicola, is hypothesized to bind to virus particles in the haemolymph, thereby promoting transmission. To investigate this hypothesis, the GroEL-binding site for barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) was determined in vitro, and the abundance of GroEL protein in different aphid tissues was investigated. Virus binding to a peptide library representing the full GroEL molecule revealed a single binding site that coincides with the site that anchors two GroEL rings to form the native GroEL tetradecamer. In the functional form of the GroEL protein, virus binding would compete with the formation of the two GroEL rings. Using a mAb raised against a Buchnera-specific GroEL epitope, GroEL was detected in Buchnera cells by immunoblotting and immunocytochemistry, but not in the aphid haemolymph, fat body or gut. From the prediction here that GroEL–virus interactions are probably severely limited by competition with other GroEL molecules, and the evidence that GroEL is not available to interact with virus particles in vivo, it is concluded that GroEL–virus interactions are unlikely to contribute to virus transmission by aphids.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	[1] A supplementary figure showing an alignment of Buchnera and E. coli GroEL protein amino acid sequences is available with the online version of this paper.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	luteovirus, GroEL chaperonin protein, Buchnera aphidicola, aphid
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute
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Last Modified:	01 May 2020 08:34
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/10302

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