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Journal of General Virology (2001), 82, 1491-1497.
© 2001 Society for General Microbiology

Plant

Use of a vector based on Potato virus X in a whole plant assay to demonstrate nuclear targeting of Potato spindle tuber viroid

Yan Zhao1, Robert A. Owens1 and Rosemarie W. Hammond1

US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA1

Author for correspondence: Rosemarie Hammond. Fax +1 301 504 5449. e-mail hammondr{at}ba.ars.usda.gov

Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is a covalently closed circular RNA molecule of 359 nucleotides that replicates within the nucleus of host cells. To determine how this small, highly structured RNA enters the nucleus, we have developed a virus-based, whole plant in vivo assay that uses green fluorescent protein (GFP) as the reporter molecule. The coding region of GFP was interrupted by insertion of an intron derived from the intervening sequence 2 of the potato ST-LS1 gene. A cDNA copy of the complete PSTVd genome was, in turn, embedded within the intron, and this construct was delivered into Nicotiana benthamiana plants via a vector based on Potato virus X. The intron-containing GFP subgenomic RNA synthesized during virus infection cannot produce a functional GFP unless the RNA is imported into the nucleus, where the intron can be removed and the spliced RNA returned to the cytoplasm. The appearance of green fluorescence in leaf tissues inoculated with constructs containing a full-length PSTVd molecule embedded in the intron indicates that nuclear import and RNA splicing events did occur.




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