The Open Reading Frame VI Product of Cauliflower mosaic viru(8)

The Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) open reading frame VI product (P6) is essential for the viral infection cycle. It controls translation reinitiation of the viral polycistronic RNAs and forms cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (viroplasms) where virus replicat

Figure5.TheN-Terminala-HelixofP6IsanEssentialDeterminantfortheFormationofViroplasms.

(A)SchematicrepresentationofEGFP:P6anditsdeletedversions.P6fragments:thenumberscorrespondtotheaminoacidpositionswithintheclonedP6sequence.EGFPanddomainAarerepresentedbygreenandyellowboxes,respectively(nottoscale).TheLeu-enrichedsequences(i1-I1andI1)areindicatedaboveEGFP:P6Di1-I1andbelowEGFP:P6DI1,respectively.I1indomainAisrepresentedbyabluebox.Theemptyspaceandtheredstarintheblueboxindicatethedeletionandthepointmutations,respectively.TheotherdomainsofP6arerepresentedasinFigure1.AminoacidsmutatedinmotifI1ofthethreeEGFP:P6mversionsaredepictedinred.Theothermotifsarede nedinFigure1.LegendCLSMimages:numberingrefersto(B).aa,aminoacids.

(B)SubcellularlocalizationofpointmutatedEGFP:P6anddeletedversions(images1to10).The uorescentproteinswereexpressedinBY-2cellsandthe uorescentimages(1,3,5,7,and9)collectedbyCLSMweresuperposedonthecorrespondingdifferentialinterferencecontrastimages(2,4,6,8,and10).Bars¼10mm.