Abstract
AbstractPoleroviruses, enamoviruses, and luteoviruses are icosahedral, positive sense RNA viruses that cause economically important diseases in food and fiber crops. They are transmitted by phloem-feeding aphids in a circulative manner that involves the movement across and within insect tissues. The N-terminal portion of the viral readthrough domain (NRTD) has been implicated as a key determinant of aphid transmission in each of these genera. Here, we report crystal structures of the NRTDs from the poleroviruses turnip yellow virus (TuYV) and potato leafroll virus (PLRV) at 1.53-Å and 2.22-Å resolution, respectively. These adopt a two-domain arrangement with a unique interdigitated topology and form highly conserved dimers that are stabilized by a C-terminal peptide that is critical for proper folding. We demonstrate that the PLRV NRTD can act as an inhibitor of virus transmission and identify NRTD mutant variants that are lethal to aphids. Sequence conservation argues that enamovirus and luteovirus NRTDs will follow the same structural blueprint, which affords a biological approach to block the spread of these agricultural pathogens in a generalizable manner.
Funder
United States Department of Agriculture | Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Science Foundation
United States Department of Agriculture | National Institute of Food and Agriculture
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Chemistry,Multidisciplinary
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