Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.

Comprehensive inventories of plant viral diversity are essential for effective quarantine and sanitation efforts. The safety of regulated plant material exchanges presently relies heavily on techniques such as PCR or nucleic acid hybridisation, which are only suited to the detection and characterisa...

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Autores principales: Thierry Candresse, Denis Filloux, Brejnev Muhire, Charlotte Julian, Serge Galzi, Guillaume Fort, Pauline Bernardo, Jean-Heindrich Daugrois, Emmanuel Fernandez, Darren P Martin, Arvind Varsani, Philippe Roumagnac
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:fccea2c035c64b36a9ec88fd3be2c5792021-11-25T06:07:06ZAppearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0102945https://doaj.org/article/fccea2c035c64b36a9ec88fd3be2c5792014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25061967/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Comprehensive inventories of plant viral diversity are essential for effective quarantine and sanitation efforts. The safety of regulated plant material exchanges presently relies heavily on techniques such as PCR or nucleic acid hybridisation, which are only suited to the detection and characterisation of specific, well characterised pathogens. Here, we demonstrate the utility of sequence-independent next generation sequencing (NGS) of both virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and virion-associated nucleic acids (VANA) for the detailed identification and characterisation of viruses infecting two quarantined sugarcane plants. Both plants originated from Egypt and were known to be infected with Sugarcane streak Egypt Virus (SSEV; Genus Mastrevirus, Family Geminiviridae), but were revealed by the NGS approaches to also be infected by a second highly divergent mastrevirus, here named Sugarcane white streak Virus (SWSV). This novel virus had escaped detection by all routine quarantine detection assays and was found to also be present in sugarcane plants originating from Sudan. Complete SWSV genomes were cloned and sequenced from six plants and all were found to share >91% genome-wide identity. With the exception of two SWSV variants, which potentially express unusually large RepA proteins, the SWSV isolates display genome characteristics very typical to those of all other previously described mastreviruses. An analysis of virus-derived siRNAs for SWSV and SSEV showed them to be strongly influenced by secondary structures within both genomic single stranded DNA and mRNA transcripts. In addition, the distribution of siRNA size frequencies indicates that these mastreviruses are likely subject to both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing. Our study stresses the potential advantages of NGS-based virus metagenomic screening in a plant quarantine setting and indicates that such techniques could dramatically reduce the numbers of non-intercepted virus pathogens passing through plant quarantine stations.Thierry CandresseDenis FillouxBrejnev MuhireCharlotte JulianSerge GalziGuillaume FortPauline BernardoJean-Heindrich DaugroisEmmanuel FernandezDarren P MartinArvind VarsaniPhilippe RoumagnacPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 7, p e102945 (2014)
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Thierry Candresse
Denis Filloux
Brejnev Muhire
Charlotte Julian
Serge Galzi
Guillaume Fort
Pauline Bernardo
Jean-Heindrich Daugrois
Emmanuel Fernandez
Darren P Martin
Arvind Varsani
Philippe Roumagnac
Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
description Comprehensive inventories of plant viral diversity are essential for effective quarantine and sanitation efforts. The safety of regulated plant material exchanges presently relies heavily on techniques such as PCR or nucleic acid hybridisation, which are only suited to the detection and characterisation of specific, well characterised pathogens. Here, we demonstrate the utility of sequence-independent next generation sequencing (NGS) of both virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and virion-associated nucleic acids (VANA) for the detailed identification and characterisation of viruses infecting two quarantined sugarcane plants. Both plants originated from Egypt and were known to be infected with Sugarcane streak Egypt Virus (SSEV; Genus Mastrevirus, Family Geminiviridae), but were revealed by the NGS approaches to also be infected by a second highly divergent mastrevirus, here named Sugarcane white streak Virus (SWSV). This novel virus had escaped detection by all routine quarantine detection assays and was found to also be present in sugarcane plants originating from Sudan. Complete SWSV genomes were cloned and sequenced from six plants and all were found to share >91% genome-wide identity. With the exception of two SWSV variants, which potentially express unusually large RepA proteins, the SWSV isolates display genome characteristics very typical to those of all other previously described mastreviruses. An analysis of virus-derived siRNAs for SWSV and SSEV showed them to be strongly influenced by secondary structures within both genomic single stranded DNA and mRNA transcripts. In addition, the distribution of siRNA size frequencies indicates that these mastreviruses are likely subject to both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing. Our study stresses the potential advantages of NGS-based virus metagenomic screening in a plant quarantine setting and indicates that such techniques could dramatically reduce the numbers of non-intercepted virus pathogens passing through plant quarantine stations.
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author Thierry Candresse
Denis Filloux
Brejnev Muhire
Charlotte Julian
Serge Galzi
Guillaume Fort
Pauline Bernardo
Jean-Heindrich Daugrois
Emmanuel Fernandez
Darren P Martin
Arvind Varsani
Philippe Roumagnac
author_facet Thierry Candresse
Denis Filloux
Brejnev Muhire
Charlotte Julian
Serge Galzi
Guillaume Fort
Pauline Bernardo
Jean-Heindrich Daugrois
Emmanuel Fernandez
Darren P Martin
Arvind Varsani
Philippe Roumagnac
author_sort Thierry Candresse
title Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
title_short Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
title_full Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
title_fullStr Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
title_full_unstemmed Appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
title_sort appearances can be deceptive: revealing a hidden viral infection with deep sequencing in a plant quarantine context.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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url https://doaj.org/article/fccea2c035c64b36a9ec88fd3be2c579
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