Pepper Mild Mottle Virus Coat Protein Interacts with Pepper Chloroplast Outer Envelope Membrane Protein OMP24 to Inhibit Antiviral Immunity in Plants

Overview

Journal Hortic Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Date 2023 May 14

PMID 37180740

Authors

Kelei Han

Hongying Zheng

Dankan Yan

Huijie Zhou

Zhaoxing Jia

Yushan Zhai

Jian Wu

Yuwen Lu

Guanwei Wu

Shaofei Rao

Jianping Chen

Jiejun Peng

Rende Qi

Fei Yan

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Abstract

Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) is a devastating viral pathogen of pepper () but it is unclear whether and how peppers protect against PMMoV infection. The expression of the chloroplast outer membrane protein 24 (OMP24) of was upregulated under PMMoV infection and it interacted with PMMoV coat protein (CP). Silencing of in either or facilitated PMMoV infection, whereas overexpression of in transgenic plants inhibited PMMoV infection. Both OMP24 (CaOMP24) and OMP24 (NbOMP24) localized to the chloroplast and have a moderately hydrophobic transmembrane domain that is necessary for their localization. Overexpression of induced stromules, perinuclear chloroplast clustering, and accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), the typical defense responses of chloroplasts transferring the retrograde signaling to the nucleus to regulate resistance genes. The expression of and was also upregulated significantly in plants overexpressing . Self-interaction of OMP24 was demonstrated and was required for OMP24-mediated plant defense. Interaction with PMMoV CP interfered with the self-interaction of OMP24 and impaired OMP24-induced stromules, perinuclear chloroplast clustering and ROS accumulation. The results demonstrate the defense function of OMP24 in pepper during viral infection and suggest a possible mechanism by which PMMoV CP modulates the plant defense to facilitate viral infection.

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