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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 276, Issue 7, 4652-4661, February 16, 2001

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A Novel Alcohol Oxidase/RNA-binding Protein with Affinity for Mycovirus Double-stranded RNA from the Filamentous Fungus Helminthosporium (Cochliobolus) victoriae
MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION^*

Ana I. Soldevila and Said A. Ghabrial

From the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0091

We have cloned and sequenced a novel alcohol oxidase (Hv-p68) from the filamentous fungus Helminthosporium (Cochliobolus) victoriae that copurifies with mycoviral double-stranded RNAs. Sequence analysis revealed that Hv-p68 belongs to the large family of FAD-dependent glucose methanol choline oxidoreductases and that it shares significant sequence identity (>67%) with the alcohol oxidases of the methylotrophic yeasts. Unlike the intronless alcohol oxidases from methylotrophic yeasts, a genomic fragment of the Hv-p68 gene was found to contain four introns. Hv-p68, purified from fungal extracts, showed only limited methanol oxidizing activity, and its expression was not induced in cultures supplemented with methanol as the sole carbon source. Northern hybridization analysis indicated that overexpression of Hv-p68 is associated with virus infection, because significantly higher Hv-p68 mRNA levels (10- to 20-fold) were detected in virus-infected isolates compared with virus-free ones. We confirmed by Northwestern blot analysis that Hv-p68 exhibits RNA binding activity and demonstrated that the RNA-binding domain is localized within the N-terminal region that contains a typical ADP-binding -- fold motif. The Hv-p68 gene, or closely similar genes, was present in all species of the genus Cochliobolus but absent in the filamentous fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, as well as in two nonmethylotrophic yeasts examined. This study represents the first reported case that a member of the FAD-dependent glucose methanol choline oxidoreductase family, Hv-p68, may function as an RNA-binding protein.

The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank^TM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) AF232903.

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