Geminiviridae

Geminiviridae
Purified Maize streak virus (MSV) particles stained with uranyl acetate. Size bar indicates 50 nm.
Virus classification
Group: Group II (ssDNA)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Geminiviridae
Genera

Geminiviridae is a family of plant viruses. There are currently 325 species in this family, divided among 7 genera. Diseases associated with this family include: bright yellow mosaic, yellow mosaic, yellow mottle, leaf curling, stunting, streaks, reduced yields.[1][2] They have single-stranded circular DNA genomes encoding genes that diverge in both directions from a virion strand origin of replication (i.e. geminivirus genomes are ambisense). According to the Baltimore classification they are considered class II viruses. It is the largest known family of single stranded DNA viruses.

Mastrevirus transmission is via various leafhopper species (e.g. maize streak virus and other African streak viruses are transmitted by Cicadulina mbila), curtoviruses and the only known topocuvirus species, Tomato pseudo-curly top virus, are transmitted by treehopper species (e.g.Tomato pseudo-curly top virus is transmitted by the treehopper Micrutalis malleifera), and begomoviruses are transmitted by the whitefly species, Bemisia tabaci.

These viruses are responsible for a significant amount of crop damage worldwide. Epidemics of geminivirus diseases have arisen due to a number of factors, including the recombination of different geminiviruses coinfecting a plant, which enables novel, possibly virulent viruses to be developed. Other contributing factors include the transport of infected plant material to new locations, expansion of agriculture into new growing areas, and the expansion and migration of vectors that can spread the virus from one plant to another.[3]

Virology

The genome can either be a single component between 2500-3100 nucleotides, or, in the case of some begomoviruses, two similar-sized components each between 2600 and 2800 nucleotides. They have elongated, geminate capsids with two incomplete T=1 icosahedra joined at the missing vertex. The capsids range in size from 18-20 nm in diameter with a length of about 30 nm. Begomoviruses with two component (i.e. bipartite) genomes have these components separated into two different particles both of which must usually be transmitted together to initiate a new infection within a suitable host cell.

Genus Structure Symmetry Capsid Genomic Arrangement Genomic Segmentation
EragrovirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite
CurtovirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite
BegomovirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularSegmented
BecurtovirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite
TopocuvirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite
TurncurtovirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite
MastrevirusTwinned IcosahedralIncomplete T=1Non-EnvelopedCircularMonopartite

Taxonomy

Group: ssDNA

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Several additional genera have been proposed: Baminivirus, Nimivirus and Niminivirus.[4]

Some viruses have yet to be assigned a genus: one of these is the Grapevine Cabernet Franc-associated virus/Grapevine red blotch-associated virus/Grapevine redleaf-associated virus.[5]

Replication

Drawing of geminiviruses

Geminivirus genomes encode only a few proteins; thus, they are dependent on host cell factors for replication: these include factors such as DNA polymerase - and probably repair polymerases - in order to amplify their genomes, as well as transcription factors. Geminiviruses replicate via a rolling circle mechanism like bacteriophages such as M13, and many plasmids. Replication occurs within the nucleus of an infected plant cell. First the single-stranded circular DNA is converted to a double-stranded circular intermediate. This step involves the use of cellular DNA repair enzymes to produce a complementary negative-sense strand, using the viral genomic or plus-sense DNA strand as a template. The next step is the rolling circle phase, where the viral strand is cleaved at a specific site situated within the origin of replication by the viral Rep protein in order to initiate replication.[6] This process in a eukaryotic nucleus can give rise to concatemeric double-stranded forms of replicative intermediate genomes, although double-stranded unit circles can be isolated from infected plants and cells. New single-stranded DNA forms of the virus genome (plus-sense) are probably formed by interaction of the coat protein with replicating DNA intermediates, as genomes lacking a CP gene do not form ssDNA. The ssDNA is packaged into germinate particles in the nucleus. It is not clear if these particles can then leave the nucleus and be transmitted to surrounding cells as virions, or whether ssDNA associated with coat protein and a movement protein is the form of the genome that gets trafficked from cell to cell via the plasmodesmata.[7]

These viruses tend to be introduced into and initially infect differentiated plant cells, via the piercing mouthparts of the vector insect: however, these cells generally lack the host enzymes necessary for DNA replication, making it difficult for the virus to replicate. To overcome this block geminiviruses can induce plant cells to reenter the cell cycle from a quiescent state so that viral replication can occur.[8]

Genus Host Details Tissue Tropism Entry Details Release Details Replication Site Assembly Site Transmission
EragrovirusPlantsNoneViral movement; mechanical inoculationBuddingNucleusNucleusTreehopper; leafhopper
CurtovirusDicotyledonous plantsPhloem-limitedViral movement; mechanical inoculationBuddingNucleusNucleusBeet leefhopper
BegomovirusDicotyledonous plantsPhloem; sieve; phloem-limitedViral movement; mechanical inoculationBuddingNucleusNucleusBemisia tabaci whiteflies
BecurtovirusSpinachPhloem; sieve; phloem-limitedViral movement; mechanical inoculationBuddingNucleusNucleusViral movement; contact
TopocuvirusDicotyledonous plantsNoneCell receptor endocytosisBuddingNucleusNucleusLeafhopper
TurncurtovirusTurnipNoneCell receptor endocytosisBuddingNucleusNucleusLeafhopper
MastrevirusMonocots[9]NoneViral movement; mechanical inoculationBuddingNucleusNucleusLeafhopper

Evolution

These viruses may have evolved from a phytoplasma plasmid.[10] Geminiviruses are capable of horizontal gene transfer of genetic information to the plant host.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Viral Zone". ExPASy. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 ICTV. "Virus Taxonomy: 2014 Release". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Gray and Banerjee; Banerjee, N (1999). "Mechanisms of Arthropod Transmission of Plant and Animal Viruses". Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 63 (1): 128–148. PMC 98959. PMID 10066833.
  4. ↑ Ng TF, Marine R, Wang C, Simmonds P, Kapusinszky B, Bodhidatta L, Oderinde BS, Wommack KE, Delwart E (2012) High variety of known and new RNA and DNA viruses of diverse origins in untreated sewage. J Virol
  5. ↑ Poojari S, Alabi OJ, Fofanov VY, Naidu RA (2013). "A leafhopper-transmissible DNA virus with novel evolutionary lineage in the family geminiviridae implicated in grapevine redleaf disease by next-generation sequencing". PLOS ONE 8 (6): e64194. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064194.
  6. ↑ Chasan R (1995). "Geminiviruses: A Twin Approach to Replication" (PDF). Plant Cell 7 (6): 659–661. doi:10.1105/tpc.7.6.659.
  7. ↑ Gutierrez C (2000). "NEW EMBO MEMBERS' REVIEW: DNA replication and cell cycle in plants: learning from geminiviruses". The EMBO Journal 19 (5): 792–799. doi:10.1093/emboj/19.5.792. PMC 305619. PMID 10698921.
  8. ↑ Hanley Bowdoin lab
  9. ↑ http://viralzone.expasy.org/all_by_species/110.html
  10. ↑ Krupovic M, Ravantti JJ, Bamford DH (2009). "Geminiviruses: a tale of a plasmid becoming a virus" (PDF). BMC Evol Biol 9: 112. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-112. PMC 2702318. PMID 19460138.
  11. ↑ Bejarano E.R., Khashoggi A.M., Witty M., Lichtenstein C.P. (1994). "Discovery of ancient recombination between geminiviral DNA and the nuclear genome of Nicotiana sp". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93: 759–764.

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