Abstract
A subgenomic single-stranded DNA present in particles of the geminivirus, tomato golden mosaic virus, has been shown by electron microscope heteroduplex mapping and Southern hybridisation analysis to consist of circular molecules, ca. 1.2 kb in size, derived from the smaller of the two genomic DNA components, DNA B, by deletion of open reading frame (ORF) BR1 and the C-terminal portion of ORF BL1. A covalently closed circular, supercoiled, double-stranded form of the subgenomic DNA has been isolated from virus-infected plants and cloned into pEMBL9. Analysis of the sequence of 22 clones across the deletion boundaries revealed only four different deletion boundaries, derived from four different left hand borders and three different right hand borders. Each border was within a region of 11 nucleotides and gave rise to a narrow size range (1248-1261 nucleotides) for the population of 22 subgenomic DNAs. However apparently smaller subgenomic DNAs were sometimes formed when plants were inoculated with cloned subgenomic DNA, or a construct derived from a subgenomic DNA in which a neomycin phosphotransferase gene had been inserted, together with the genomic DNA components. Mechanisms to account for the size, specificity and formation of the subgenomic DNA are discussed.
MeSH Terms
Base Sequence
Chromosome Mapping
Cloning, Molecular
DNA/genetics
DNA Restriction Enzymes
DNA, Circular/genetics
DNA, Single-Stranded/genetics
DNA, Viral/genetics
Mosaic Viruses/genetics,pathogenicity
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Plants/microbiology
Chemicals
DNA, Circular
DNA, Single-Stranded
DNA, Viral
DNA
DNA Restriction Enzymes
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
MacDowell S W
Coutts R H
Buck K W
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