Abstract
Ryegrass mottle virus (RGMoV; genus: Sobemovirus) is a single-stranded positive RNA virus with a 30 nm viral particle size. It exhibits T = 3 symmetry with 180 coat protein (CP) subunits forming a viral structure. The RGMoV genome comprises five open reading frames that encode P1, Px, a membrane-anchored 3C-like serine protease, a viral genome-linked protein, P16, an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and CP. The RGMoV genome size varies, ranging from 4175 nt (MW411579.1) to 4253 nt (MW411579.1) in the deposited sequences. An earlier deposited RGMoV complete genome sequence of 4212 nt length (EF091714.1) was used to develop an infectious complementary DNA (icDNA) construct for in vitro gRNA transcription from the T7 promoter. However, viral infection was not induced when the transcribed gRNA was introduced into oat plants, indicating the potential absence of certain sequences in either the 5’ or 3’ untranslated regions (UTR) or both. The complete sequence of the 3’ UTR was determined through 3’ end RACE, while the 5’ UTR was identified using high-throughput sequencing (HTS)-RNA-Seq to resolve the potential absences. Only the icDNA vector containing the newly identified UTR sequences proved infectious, resulting in typical viral infection symptoms and subsequent propagation of progeny viruses, exhibiting the ability to cause repeated infections in oat plants after at least one passage. The successful generation of icDNA highlighted the synergistic potential of utilizing both methods when a single approach failed. Furthermore, this study demonstrated the reliability of HTS as a method for determining the complete genome sequence of viral genomes.
Funder
Latvian Council of Science
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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