Abstract:Tobaccos infected by Potato virus Y N strain (PVYN) usually exhibit vein necrosis symptom, but the mechanism has not been well understood, as no host proteins involved in the symptom has been reported yet. The previous studies have shown that polypeptide CKVNP (CI-6K2-VPg-NIa-Pro) coding region played an important role in inducing tobacco vein necrosis symptom. The bait plasmid (pGBK-PVY) containing the DNA-binding domain (BD) fused with full length of the polypeptide CKVNP encoded by PVYN and the tobacco (Yunyan 87) cDNA library fused to the activation domain (AD) were constructed. Then tobacco cDNA library was screened by the CKVNP as a bait to identify protein(s) that interacted with CKVNP. The results showed that the amino acid sequence and open reading frame of the insert cDNA fragment of CKVNP were correct and it had no self activating effect on yeast strain. The cDNA library had a capacity of 7.0×106 CFU/mL, and the most of insert fragments were more than 1 kb in size, which indicated that the cDNA library was qualified for the yeast two-hybrid screening. After screening and retesting the interaction in yeast 94 candidate genes displayed specific interaction with CKVNP in yeast. 22 genes were selected and sequenced. BLAST results showed that these genes encoded 14 proteins.