A Plasmid Isolated from Phytopathogenic Onion Yellows Phytoplasma and Its Heterogeneity in the Pathogenic Phytoplasma Mutant
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Published:1998-11
Issue:11
Volume:11
Page:1031-1037
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ISSN:0894-0282
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Container-title:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®
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language:en
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Short-container-title:MPMI
Author:
Kuboyama Tsutomu,Huang Chieh-Chen,Lu Xiaoyun,Sawayanagi Toshimi,Kanazawa Tokiko,Kagami Takashi,Matsuda Izumi,Tsuchizaki Tsuneo,Namba Shigetou
Abstract
A 3.6-kbp DNA fragment was cloned from the extrachromosomal DNA of a pathogenic plant mollicute, onion yellows phytoplasma (OY-W). Sequence analysis of the fragment revealed an open reading frame (ORF) encoding the replication (Rep) protein of rolling-circle replication (RCR)-type plasmids. This result suggests the existence of a plasmid (pOYW1) in OY-W that uses the RCR mechanism. This assumption was confirmed by detecting the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) of a replication intermediate that is specifically produced by the RCR mechanism. This is the first report on the identification of the replication system of this plasmid and the genes encoded in it. With a DNA fragment including the Rep gene region of pOYW1 used as a probe, Southern and Northern (RNA) blot hybridizations were employed to examine the heterogeneity between the plasmids found in OY-W and a pathogenic mutant (OY-M) isolated from OY-W. Multiple bands were detected in the DNA and RNA extracted from both OY-W and OY-M infected plants, although the banding patterns were different. Moreover, the copy number of plasmids from OY-W was about 4.2 times greater than that from OY-M. These results indicate constructive heterogeneity between OY-W and OY-M plasmids, and the possibility of a relationship between the plasmid-encoded genes and the pathogenicity of the phytoplasma was suggested.
Publisher
Scientific Societies
Subject
Agronomy and Crop Science,General Medicine,Physiology
Cited by
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