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Analysis of small RNA production patterns among the two potato spindle tuber viroid variants in tomato plants.

ABSTRACT: In order to analyze the production of small RNA (sRNA) by viroids upon infecting the plants, the tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum cultivar Rutgers) were inoculated with the variants of Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). After 21-days of postinoculation, total RNA was extracted and subjected for deep-sequencing using Illumina HiSeq platform. The primers were trimmed and only 21- to 24-nt long sRNAs were filtered after quality check of the raw data. The filtered sRNA population was then mapped against both the genomic (+) and antigenomic (-) strands of the respective PSTVd variants using standard pattern-matching algorithm. The profiling of viroid derived sRNA (vd-sRNA) revealed that the viroids are susceptible to host RNA silencing mechanism. High-throughput sequence data linked to this project have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database under accession number GSE69225.

SUBMITTER: Adkar-Purushothama CR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4664692 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Analysis of small RNA production patterns among the two potato spindle tuber viroid variants in tomato plants.

Adkar-Purushothama Charith Raj CR Perreault Jean-Pierre JP Sano Teruo T

Genomics data 20150812

In order to analyze the production of small RNA (sRNA) by viroids upon infecting the plants, the tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum cultivar Rutgers) were inoculated with the variants of Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). After 21-days of postinoculation, total RNA was extracted and subjected for deep-sequencing using Illumina HiSeq platform. The primers were trimmed and only 21- to 24-nt long sRNAs were filtered after quality check of the raw data. The filtered sRNA population was then mappe ...[more]

PMID: 26697336

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Project description:Viroids are infectious non-coding RNAs that infect plants. During infection, viroid RNAs are targeted by Dicer-like proteins, generating viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) that can guide the sequence specific cleavage of cognate host mRNAs via an RNA silencing mechanism. To assess the involvement of these pathways in pathogenesis associated with nuclear-replicating viroids, high-throughput sequencing of sRNAs and degradome analysis were carried out on tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana plants infected by potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). Both hosts develop similar stunting and leaf curling symptoms when infected by PSTVd, thus allowing comparative analyses. About one hundred tomato mRNAs potentially targeted for degradation by vd-sRNAs were initially identified. However, data from biological replicates and comparisons between mock and infected samples reduced the number of bona fide targets-i.e., those identified with high confidence in two infected biological replicates but not in the mock controls-to only eight mRNAs that encode proteins involved in development, transcription or defense. Somewhat surprisingly, results of RT-qPCR assays revealed that the accumulation of only four of these mRNAs was inhibited in the PSTVd-infected tomato. When these analyses were extended to mock inoculated and PSTVd-infected N. benthamiana plants, a completely different set of potential mRNA targets was identified. The failure to identify homologous mRNA(s) targeted by PSTVd-sRNA suggests that different pathways could be involved in the elicitation of similar symptoms in these two species. Moreover, no significant modifications in the accumulation of miRNAs and in the cleavage of their targeted mRNAs were detected in the infected tomato plants with respect to the mock controls. Taken together, these data suggest that stunting and leaf curling symptoms induced by PSTVd are elicited by a complex plant response involving multiple mechanisms, with RNA silencing being only one of the possible components.

Project description:The identification of viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) of 21 to 24 nucleotides (nt) in plants infected by viroids (infectious non-protein-coding RNAs of just 250 to 400 nt) supports their targeting by Dicer-like enzymes, the first host RNA-silencing barrier. However, whether viroids, like RNA viruses, are also targeted by the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) remains controversial. At the RISC core is one Argonaute (AGO) protein that, guided by endogenous or viral sRNAs, targets complementary RNAs. To examine whether AGO proteins also load vd-sRNAs, leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana infected by potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were agroinfiltrated with plasmids expressing epitope-tagged versions of AGO1, AGO2, AGO3, AGO4, AGO5, AGO6, AGO7, AGO9, and AGO10 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Immunoprecipitation analyses of the agroinfiltrated halos revealed that all AGOs except AGO6, AGO7, and AGO10 associated with vd-sRNAs: AGO1, AGO2, and AGO3 preferentially with those of 21 and 22 nt, while AGO4, AGO5, and AGO9 additionally bound those of 24 nt. Deep-sequencing analyses showed that sorting of vd-sRNAs into AGO1, AGO2, AGO4, and AGO5 depended essentially on their 5'-terminal nucleotides, with the profiles of the corresponding AGO-loaded vd-sRNAs adopting specific hot spot distributions along the viroid genome. Furthermore, agroexpression of AGO1, AGO2, AGO4, and AGO5 on PSTVd-infected tissue attenuated the level of the genomic RNAs, suggesting that they, or their precursors, are RISC targeted. In contrast to RNA viruses, PSTVd infection of N. benthamiana did not affect miR168-mediated regulation of the endogenous AGO1, which loaded vd-sRNAs with specificity similar to that of its A. thaliana counterpart. Importance: To contain invaders, particularly RNA viruses, plants have evolved an RNA-silencing mechanism relying on the generation by Dicer-like (DCL) enzymes of virus-derived small RNAs of 21 to 24 nucleotides (nt) that load and guide Argonaute (AGO) proteins to target and repress viral RNA. Viroids, despite their minimal genomes (non-protein-coding RNAs of only 250 to 400 nt), infect and incite disease in plants. The accumulation in these plants of 21- to 24-nt viroid-derived small RNAs (vd-sRNAs) supports the notion that DCLs also target viroids but does not clarify whether vd-sRNAs activate one or more AGOs. Here, we show that in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana infected by potato spindle tuber viroid, the endogenous AGO1 and distinct AGOs from Arabidopsis thaliana that were overexpressed were associated with vd-sRNAs displaying the same properties (5'-terminal nucleotide and size) previously established for endogenous and viral small RNAs. Overexpression of AGO1, AGO2, AGO4, and AGO5 attenuated viroid accumulation, supporting their role in antiviroid defense.

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Analysis of small RNA production patterns among the two potato spindle tuber viroid variants in tomato plants.

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Analysis of small RNA production patterns among the two potato spindle tuber viroid variants in tomato plants.

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