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  • Title: Silencing suppressor activity of the Tobacco rattle virus-encoded 16-kDa protein and interference with endogenous small RNA-guided regulatory pathways.
    Author: Martínez-Priego L, Donaire L, Barajas D, Llave C.
    Journal: Virology; 2008 Jul 05; 376(2):346-56. PubMed ID: 18456303.
    Abstract:
    Higher plants use RNA silencing as a defense mechanism against viral infections, but viruses may encode suppressor proteins that counteract these defenses. Several virus-encoded suppressors also exert an inhibitory effect on endogenous small RNA regulatory pathways. Here we characterized the Tobacco rattle virus-encoded 16-kDa (TRV-16K) protein as a suppressor that blocked local RNA silencing induced by single (s)- and double-stranded (ds) RNA, indicating that TRV-16K interfered with a step in the silencing pathway downstream of dsRNA formation. The suppressor activity of TRV-16K was severely compromised by moderate to high dosages of dsRNA inducer. When silencing was locally triggered by ssRNA or low levels of dsRNA, silencing suppression by TRV-16K was associated with reduced accumulation of silencing-related siRNAs. TRV-16K also prevented partially cell-to-cell movement and systemic propagation of silencing but not transitive amplification of RNA silencing. We showed that neither TRV nor TRV-16K caused a global deregulation of the microRNA-regulatory pathway in Arabidopsis, suggesting that interference with microRNA biology was not a prerequisite for TRV, and probably many other plant viruses, to develop systemic infections in plants.
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