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Molecular characterization and intermolecular interaction of coat protein of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus: implications for virus assembly

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Coat protein (CP) and RNA3 from Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV-rose), the most prevalent virus infecting rose in India, were characterized and regions in the coat protein important for self-interaction, during dimer formation were identified. The sequence analysis of CP and partial RNA 3 revealed that the rose isolate of PNRSV in India belongs to PV-32 group of PNRSV isolates. Apart from the already established group specific features of PV-32 group member’s additional group-specific and host specific features were also identified. Presence of methionine at position 90 in the amino acid sequence alignment of PNRSV CP gene (belonging to PV-32 group) was identified as the specific conserved feature for the rose isolates of PNRSV. As protein–protein interaction plays a vital role in the infection process, an attempt was made to identify the portions of PNRSV CP responsible for self-interaction using yeast two-hybrid system. It was found (after analysis of the deletion clones) that the C-terminal region of PNRSV CP (amino acids 153–226) plays a vital role in this interaction during dimer formation. N-terminal of PNRSV CP is previously known to be involved in CP-RNA interactions, but our results also suggested that N-terminal of PNRSV CP represented by amino acids 1–77 also interacts with C-terminal (amino acids 153–226) in yeast two-hybrid system, suggesting its probable involvement in the CP–CP interaction.

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The authors are thankful to the Director IHBT and Vice Chancellor, Shoolini University for providing research facilities. Authors would like to dedicate this paper to Late Dr A. A. Zaidi, a renowned virologist and mentor of Dr Saurabh Kulshrestha.

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  1. Plant Virus Lab, Floriculture Division, IHBT (CSIR), Palampur, 176061, HP, India

    Saurabh Kulshrestha, Vipin Hallan & Aijaz Asghar Zaidi

  2. Faculty of Biotechnology, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, 173212, HP, India

    Saurabh Kulshrestha, Anshul Sharma & Chandrika Attri Seth

  3. Department of Basic Sciences, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, India

    Anjali Chauhan

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The sequences reported in the paper were submitted to the EMBL data base with following accession numbers: PNRSV CP (AJ619958), PNRSV MP (AJ697737), PNRSV RNA 3 (AJ969095).

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Kulshrestha, S., Hallan, V., Sharma, A. et al. Molecular characterization and intermolecular interaction of coat protein of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus: implications for virus assembly. Indian J. Virol. 24, 235–241 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13337-013-0140-5

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