Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 13, 1327-1338, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
RT Lartey, TC Voss and U Melcher
Tobamoviruses, mostly isolated from solanaceous plants, may represent
ancient virus lineages that have codiverged with their hosts. Recently
completed nucleotide sequences of six nonsolanaceous tobamoviruses allowed
assessment of the codivergence hypothesis and support a third subgroup
within tobamoviruses. The genomic sequences of 12 tobamoviruses and the
partial sequences of 11 others have been analyzed. Comparisons of the
predicted protein sequences revealed three clusters of tobamoviruses,
corresponding to those infecting solanaceous species (subgroup 1), those
infecting cucurbits and legumes (subgroup 2), and those infecting
crucifers. The orchid-infecting odontoglossum ringspot tobamovirus was
associated with subgroup 1 genomes by its coat and movement protein
sequences, but with the crucifer-pathogenic tobamoviruses by the remainder
of its genome, suggesting that it is the progeny of a recombinant. For four
of five genomic regions, subgroup 1 and 3 genomes were equidistant from a
subgroup 2 genome chosen for comparison, suggesting uniform rates of
evolution. A phylogenetic tree of plant families based on the tobamoviruses
they harbor was congruent with that based on rubisco sequences but had a
different root, suggesting that codivergence was tempered by rare events of
viruses of one family colonizing another family. The proposed subgroup 3
viruses probably have an origin of virion assembly in the movement protein
gene, a large (25-codon) overlap of movement and coat protein open reading
frames, and a comparably shorter genome. Codon-position- dependent base
compositions and codon prevalences suggested that the coat protein frame of
the overlap region was ancestral. Bootstrapped parsimony analysis of the
nucleotides in the overlap region and of the sequences translated from the
-1 frame (the subgroup 3 movement protein frame) of this region produced
trees inconsistent with those deduced from other regions. The results are
consistent with a model in which a no or short overlap organization was
ancestral. Despite encoding of subgroup 2 and 3 movement protein C-termini
by nonhomologous nucleotides, weak similarities between their amino acid
sequences suggested convergent sequence evolution.
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Tobamovirus evolution: gene overlaps, recombination, and taxonomic implications
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078-3035, USA.
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