Characterization of homologues of the apple proliferation immunodominant membrane protein gene from three related phytoplasmas.

Mol Plant Pathol

Sustainable Disease Resistance, Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV35 9EF, UK.

Published: March 2003

SUMMARY Homologues of the immunodominant membrane protein gene from apple proliferation (AP) phytoplasma have been cloned and sequenced for three further members of the AP subclade, namely European stone fruit yellows, peach yellow leaf roll and a European isolate of pear decline (PD). The putative translation products of all three were similar in size to that of AP and all had a transmembrane region towards the N-terminus and a large C-terminal hydrophilic domain, probably held on the outside of the cell membrane in vivo. Sequence similarities for the putative proteins were compared with interrelationships of the phytoplasmas as measured by rRNA gene sequence similarity. The proteins from AP and PD were more similar (57% identical in the major hydrophilic domain) than those for any other pair (31-34%), but these two phytoplasmas were not more closely related by rRNA gene sequences than other pairs. The possibility that the relative similarities of these proteins is related to the host is discussed. It is suggested that the similarity of the AP and PD proteins may reflect the fact that these two proteins have narrow plant host ranges in two closely related genera in the tribe Maloideae (family Rosaceae), whilst the other two have broader host ranges, mainly in the tribe Prunoideae.

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