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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2008, p. 3105-3111, Vol. 74, No. 10
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02190-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Diverse Responses of the Bivalve-Killing Dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama to Infection by a Single-Stranded RNA Virus{triangledown}

Hiroyuki Mizumoto,{dagger} Yuji Tomaru, Yoshitake Takao,{ddagger} Yoko Shirai, and Keizo Nagasaki*

National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency, 2-17-5 Maruishi, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0452, Japan

Received 25 September 2007/ Accepted 14 March 2008

Viruses are believed to be significant pathogens for phytoplankton. Usually, they infect a single algal species, and often their infection is highly strain specific. However, the detailed molecular background of the strain specificity and its ecological significance have not been sufficiently understood. Here, we investigated the temporal changes in viral RNA accumulation and virus-induced cell lysis using a bloom-forming dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama and its single-stranded RNA virus, HcRNAV. We observed at least three host response patterns to virus inoculation: sensitive, resistant, and delayed lysis. In the sensitive response, the host cell culture was permissive for viral RNA replication and apparent cell lysis was observed; in contrast, resistant cell culture was nonpermissive for viral RNA replication and not lysed. In the delayed-lysis response, although viral RNA replication occurred, virus-induced cell lysis was faint and remarkably delayed. In addition, the number of infectious virus particles released to the culture supernatant at 12 days postinoculation was comparable to that of the sensitive strain. By further analysis, a few strains were characterized as variants of the delayed-lysis strain. These observations indicate that the response of H. circularisquama to HcRNAV infection is highly diverse.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency, 2-17-5 Maruishi, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0452, Japan. Phone: 81-829-55-3529. Fax: 81-829-54-1216. E-mail: nagasaki{at}affrc.go.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 21 March 2008.

{dagger} Present address: Laboratory Animal Research Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Marine Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Obama, Fukui 917-0003, Japan.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2008, p. 3105-3111, Vol. 74, No. 10
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02190-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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