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Pérez-Luna, Ana Isabel Romero-Rodríguez, Beatriz Rosas-Díaz, Tábata Victoria Cerero, Laura Rodríguez Negrete, Edgar A. Castillo-Garriga, Araceli Rodríguez-Bejarano, Eduardo 2024-09-30T18:06:24Z 2024-09-30T18:06:24Z 2020-06-19 Luna AP, Romero-Rodríguez B, Rosas-Díaz T, Cerero L, Rodríguez-Negrete EA, Castillo AG and Bejarano ER (2020) Characterization of Curtovirus V2 Protein, a Functional Homolog of Begomovirus V2. Front. Plant Sci. 11:835. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00835 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34088 10.3389/fpls.2020.00835 Geminiviruses are single-stranded DNA plant viruses with circular genomes packaged within geminate particles. Among the Geminiviridae family, Begomovirus and Curtovirus comprise the two best characterized genera. Curtovirus and Old World begomovirus possess similar genome structures with six to seven open-reading frames (ORF). Among them, begomovirus and curtovirus V2 ORFs share the same location in the viral genome, encode proteins of similar size, but show extremely poor sequence homology between the genera. V2 from Beet curly top virus (BCTV), the model species for the Curtovirus genus, as it begomoviral counterpart, suppresses post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) by impairing the RDR6/SGS3 pathway and localizes in the nucleus spanning from the perinuclear region to the cell periphery. By aminoacid sequence comparison we have identified that curtoviral and begomoviral V2 proteins shared two hydrophobic domains and a putative phosphorylation motif. These three domains are essential for BCTV V2 silencing suppression activity, for the proper nuclear localization of the protein and for systemic infection. The lack of suppression activity in the mutated versions of V2 is complemented by the impaired function of RDR6 in Nicotiana benthamiana but the ability of the viral mutants to produce a systemic infection is not recovered in gene silencing mutant backgrounds. We have also demonstrated that, as its begomoviral homolog, V2 from BCTV is able to induce systemic symptoms and necrosis associated with a hypersensitive response-like (HR-like) when expressed from Potato virus X vector in N. benthamiana, and that this pathogenicity activity does not dependent of its ability to supress PTGS eng open access Patogénesis Characterization of Curtovirus V2 Protein, a Functional Homolog of Begomovirus V2 journal article