Poty- and picornaviruses share similar genome organizations and polyprotein processing strategies. By analogy to picornaviruses it has been proposed that the genome-linked protein VPg may serve as a primer for genome replication of potyviruses. The multifunctional VPg of potato virus A (PVA; genus Potyvirus) was found to be uridylylated by NIb, the RNA polymerase of PVA. The nucleotidylation activity of NIb is more efficient in the presence of Mn(2+) than Mg(2+) and does not require an RNA template. Our results suggest that the nucleotidylation reaction exhibits weak preference for UTP over the other NTPs. An NTP-binding experiment with oxidized [alpha-(32)P]UTP revealed that PVA VPg contains an NTP-binding site. Deletion of a 7-amino acid-long putative NTP-binding site from VPg reduced nucleotide-binding capacity and debilitated uridylylation reaction. These results provide evidence that VPg may play a similar role in RNA synthesis of potyviruses as it does in the case of picornaviruses.
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