Detection and Complete Genome Analysis of Grapevine Deformation Virus from the Vineyards of Khorasan-Razavi Province

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Zahra Gholampour ¹
• Mohammad Zakiaghl ¹
• Mohsen Mehrvar ¹
• Azeddine Siammour ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² Professor, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele All’Adige, Italy

10.22067/jpp.2024.85726.1168

Abstract

Introduction
More than 80 viral diseases of grapevines have been reported worldwide. The infectious degeneration disease complex causes growth reduction, stunting, shortening of internodes, bushy growth and decline in susceptible vines. Grapevine fanleaf viruses (GFLV), arabis mosaic virus (ArMV), grapevine deformation virus (GDefV), tomato ring spot virus (ToRSV) and tobacco ring spot virus (TRSV), which belong to the genus Nepovirus, are known to cause infectious degeneration. The genus Nepovirus has been divided into three subgroups A, B and C based on genome length, genomic organization, serological relationships, proteinase cleavage sites and the phylogenetic relationship of their coat protein (CP) gene. GDefV with the new name Nepovirus deformationis belongs to subgroup A of the genus Nepovirus and is closely related to ArMV and GFLV. Prevalence of GFLV in the vineyards of Iran raises the possibility that a mixed infection of GFLV and GDefV is also present in these areas. In Khorasan-Razavi Province, Iran's third-largest grape production center, research has addressed grape-affecting viruses with potential economic consequences, including reduced yield and product quality. Studying the distribution and genetic diversity of GDefV and other grape viruses is crucial for developing effective management and prevention strategies in the region's vineyards. In this study, GDefV was identified in the vineyards of Khorasan-Razavi province in Northeastern Iran and its complete genome was sequenced. In addition, the phylogenetic relationship of these isolates to other GDefV isolates deposited in GenBank was analyzed.
 
Materials and Methods
Samples from three grapevines were collected from a vineyard in Kashmer, Khorasan-Razavi Province; total RNA was extracted from the petiole of young leaves using the CTAB-PVPP method., GDefV and mixed infections of GDefV/GFLV were detected by PCR using specific primers. The PCR products were electrophoresed in a 1% agarose gel and sequenced. The miRNAs were extracted from grapevine petiole tissue using the modified CTAB method, and small RNA libraries were prepared using the TruSeq Small RNA Sample Prep Kit and sequenced on the Illumina Novaseq 6000 platform. After trimming the reads, contigs were generated using k-mer 15 in Velvet assembler 0.7.31. Contigs were verified using BLASTn and BLASTx in NCBI, and reconstruction of the GDefV genome from the NGS reads was performed using CLC Genomics Workbench (CLC Bio) software. Phylogenetic trees were generated in MEGA7 using the maximum likelihood (ML) method with 1000 replicates in the bootstrap test. The occurrence of possible recombinations in the GDefV genome was analyzed using the RDP v.6 package.
 
Results and Discussion
The samples showed leaf deformation, shortening of internodes, bushy growth, stunting and decline, but these symptoms are probably related to GFLV, and GDefV only causes leaf deformation in the infected vine. The PCR amplification and sequencing of a segment of the coat protein gene revealed a co-infection of GDefV and GFLV in the samples. GFLV is widely distributed in Iranian vineyards, GDefV has also been previously reported in the vineyards of northwestern Iran, but this is the first report of GDefV in the vineyards of Khorasan-Razavi Province.
After refining the reads, approximately 15 million reads (92-99.7% of the original reads) remained for further analysis. The read sequences of each library were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the accession number SAMN33747579-81. Three Iranian GDefV isolates obtained from three miRNA libraries were deposited in GenBank (accession numbers **-**).
RNA1 and RNA2 of the three Iranian GDefV isolates had a length of 7386 and 3753 nucleotides, respectively. The RNA1 in GDefV had an open reading frame (ORF) of 6852 nucleotides in length, which started with the start codon AUG at position 288 and ended with the stop codons UAA or UAG at position 7142. The 5' end of the genome had 287 nucleotides long and contained two repeating sequences of 15 nucleotides that formed stem-loop structures. The length of the non-coding region at the 3' end had 244 nucleotides. Translation of RNA1 of the GDefV genome produces a polyprotein (p1) of 2285 amino acids (approximately 252 kda). The polyprotein p1 comprises the cofactor proteins proteinase, helicase, VPg, proteinase and polymerase with approximate weights of 45, 88, 3, 25 and 91 kDa, respectively. RNA2 also has one ORF, located between nucleotides 237 and 3560. This open reading frame also produces a 122 kDa polyprotein (P2) with 1108 amino acids. The second fragment of the GDeFV genome had 236 nucleotides as a 5'-noncoding region with three repeating sequences of 15 nucleotides that produced stem-loop structures with a 3-nucleotide loop and a 6bp stem. The 3'-noncoding region was also 193 nucleotides long. Polyprotein P2 comprised protein 2A, movement protein (MP) and coat protein (CP). The GDefV polyproteins had cysteine/alanine (C/A) and arginine/glycine (R/G) cleavage sites similar to those of the GFLV polyprotein. Comparison of the RNA1 sequences from three Iranian GDefV isolates with other GDefV isolates available in GenBank showed that the Iranian isolates had 88.1-92.2 % nucleotide identity with each other and 90.3-93.9 % with GenBank isolates at the nucleotide level. At the amino acid level, the Iranian isolates were 86.6-91.6 % identity with each other and 88.9-92.7 % with GenBank isolates. For RNA2, the Iranian isolates showed 89.4-92 % similar to each other and 89.6-94.2 % similar to GenBank isolates at the nucleotide level. The amino acid similarity between the Iranian GDefV isolates was 85-88.6 %. In the phylogenetic tree based on the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of RNA1 and RNA2 of the GDefV genome, the Iranian isolates of this study were clustered in a distinct clade than other GDefV isolates from Turkey (HE613269 and NC017939).
GDefV was reported in 2003 and no further information is available on its distribution in vineyards around the world. GDefV has already been reported from Turkey and Iran, but the complete genome sequence of the Iranian GDefV isolate is being reported for the first time. Further studies on the population diversity of GDefV isolates in different regions of Iran are required to gain more insight into the mechanisms affecting the dynamics of GDefV populations.

Keywords

• Complete genome
• Grapevine deformation virus
• Nepovirus
• Phylogeny
• Small RNAs

Main Subjects

• Virus

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