Abstract
This review is centered on the major strategies used by plant RNA viruses to produce the proteins required for virus multiplication. The strategies at the level of transcription presented here are synthesis of mRNA or subgenomic RNAs from viral RNA templates, and ‘cap-snatching’. At the level of translation, several strategies have been evolved by viruses at the steps of initiation, elongation and termination. At the initiation step, the classical scanning mode is the most frequent strategy employed by viruses; however in a vast number of cases, leaky scanning of the initiation complex allows expression of more than one protein from the same RNA sequence. During elongation, frameshift allows the formation of two proteins differing in their carboxy terminus. At the termination step, suppression of termination produces a protein with an elongated carboxy terminus. The last strategy that will be described is co-and/or post-translational cleavage of a polyprotein precursor by virally encoded proteinases. Most (+)-stranded RNA viruses utilize a combination of various strategies.
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Abbreviations
- Viruses :
-
(genera of viruses are based on [198])
- ACLSV:
-
apple chlorotic leaf spot closterovirus
- AIMV:
-
alfalfa mosaic virus
- AMCV:
-
artichoke mottle crinkle tombusvirus
- ASGV:
-
apple stem grooving capillovirus
- ASPV:
-
apple stem pitting virus
- BaYMV:
-
barley yellow mosaic bymovirus
- BBScV:
-
blueberry scorch carlavirus
- BMV:
-
brome mosaic bromovirus
- BNYVV:
-
beet necrotic yellow vein furovirus
- BSMV:
-
barley stripe mosaic hordeivirus
- BWYV:
-
beet western yellows luteovirus
- BYDV:
-
barley yellow dwarf luteovirus
- BYV:
-
beet yellows closterovirus
- CaMV:
-
cauliflower mosaic caulimovirus
- CarMV:
-
carnation mottle carmovirus
- CCFV:
-
cardamine chlorotic fleck carmovirus
- CCSV:
-
oucumber chlorotic spot closterovirus
- CfMV:
-
cockfoot mottle sobemovirus
- CLRV:
-
cherry leafroll (nepo?) virus
- CMV:
-
cucumber mosaic cucumovirus
- CNV:
-
cucumber necrosis tombusvirus
- CPMV:
-
cowpea mosaic comovirus
- CRSV:
-
carnation ringspot dianthovirus
- CTV:
-
citrus tristeza closterovirus
- CyRSV:
-
cymbidium ringspot tombusvirus
- FMV:
-
foxtail mosaic potexvirus
- GFMV:
-
grapevine fanleaf nepovirus
- LIYV:
-
lettuce infectious yellows closterovirus
- MCMV:
-
maize chlorotic mottle machlomovirus
- MNSV:
-
melon necrotic spot carmovirus
- OCSV:
-
oat chlorotic stunt virus
- PCV:
-
peanut clump furovirus
- PEBV:
-
pea early browning tobravirus
- PEMV:
-
pea enation mosaic enamovirus
- PLRV:
-
potato leafroll luteovirus
- PMTV:
-
potato mop-top potexvirus
- PPV:
-
plum pox potyvirus
- PSbMV:
-
pea seedborne mosaic potyvirus
- PVM:
-
potato carlavirus M
- PVX:
-
potato potexvirus X
- PYFV:
-
parsnip yellow fleck sequivirus
- RBDV:
-
raspberry bushy dwarf ilarvirus
- RCNMV:
-
red clover necrotic mosaic dianthovirus
- RTSV:
-
rice tungro spherical waikavirus
- SBWMV:
-
soil-borne wheat mosaic furovirus
- SCNMV:
-
sweet clover necrotic mosaic dianthovirus
- SDV:
-
soybean dwarf luteovirus
- STMV:
-
satellite of tobacco mosaic virus
- TBSV:
-
tomato bushy stunt tombusvirus
- TCV:
-
turnip crinkle carmovirus
- TEV:
-
tobacco etch potyvirus
- TMV:
-
tobacco mosaic tobamovirus
- TNV:
-
tobacco necrosis necrovirus
- TRV:
-
tobacco rattle tobravirus
- TSV:
-
tobacco streak ilarvirus
- TYMV:
-
turnin yellow mosaic tymovirus
- WC1MV:
-
white clover mosaic potexvirus
- Others :
-
CP, coat protein
- ds:
-
double-strand
- g:
-
genomic
- GUS:
-
β-glucuronidase
- ICR:
-
internal control region
- IR:
-
intercistronic (or intergenic) region
- IRES:
-
internal ribosome entry site
- kDa:
-
kilodalton; nt, nucleotide
- ORF:
-
open reading frame
- RdRp:
-
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
- sg:
-
subgenomic
- SGP:
-
subgenomic promoter
- ss:
-
single strand
- TGB:
-
triple gene block
- UTR:
-
untranslated region
- v:
-
viral
- vc:
-
viral complementary
- VPg:
-
virus protein genomic
- wt:
-
wild type
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Maia, I.G., Séron, K., Haenni, AL. et al. Gene expression from viral RNA genomes. Plant Mol Biol 32, 367–391 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039391
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