title: Nucleotide sequence and infectious in vitro transcripts of RNA 3 of tomato aspermy virus pepper isolate.
abstract: The nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone corresponding to the entire RNA 3 of a pepper isolate of tomato aspermy cucumovirus (P-TAV) was determined. The 2222 nucleotides (nt) long RNA 3 is dicistronic and codes a 3a (280 amino acids) and a coat protein (cp, 218 amino acids). The nucleotide sequence of P-TAV RNA 3 shows a high sequence identity (99%) with that of C-TAV RNA 3 and the amino acid sequences of the 3a and the coat proteins between these two TAV strains are also very similar. The transcription start site of the subgenomic RNA 4 was mapped to the G at the position of 1148 of RNA 3. A full-length cDNA copy of P-TAV RNA-3 was cloned downstream of the phage T7 promoter. Transcripts synthesized in vitro had no extra nucleotides at the 5' end, but there were nine non-viral nucleotides at the 3' terminus. The transcripts of TAV RNA 3 were infectious when coinoculated into test plants in the presence of purified RNA 1 and 2 of P-TAV or Trk7-CMV respectively. Northern blot analysis of RNA extracted from inoculated plants showed the expected genomic and subgenomic RNAs.
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Hungary.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Salánki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Balázs
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burgyán
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002213:Capsid / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017799:Cucumovirus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000032:analysis; D005814:Genes, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000821:virology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014675:Vegetables / Q000821:virology*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012367:RNA, Viral; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins