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, PCR product was amplified in a subsequent PCR using primers 414F and 913R

, days post-infection. cvDNA was isolated as described in ''Isolation of circular vDNA and detection by PCR.'' To verify the absence of viral RNA, cvDNA stock was reverse transcribed using the Maxima H Minus First Strand cDNA synthesis kit (Thermofisher Scientific) and assessed by PCR. For immunization, 4-5 days old flies were injected intrathoracically with 10 ng of cvDNA isolated from FHV-infected or non-infected S2 cells. 48 hr later, flies were challenged with 80 TCID 50 of FHV, 100 TCID 50 of DCV or control injection (Tris), Fly Injection with cvDNA and Survival S2 cells were infected with 1 MOI of FHV

. Lanciano, Deep-sequencing of Circular vDNA For generation of FHV cvDNA libraries, S2 cells were infected with 1 MOI of FHV, or not infected, and collected 7 days post-infection. Samples were phenol-chlorophorm purified and processed as described, 2017.

. Cunningham, Amplified DNA was isolated, digested with Sph1 or Mlu1, and ligated to similarly restricted pLg338-30 plasmid DNA. Ligated DNA was used to transform MAX Efficiency Stbl2 Competent Cells (Invitrogen) using procedures recommended by the manufacturer. Colonies were screened by PCR using FHV RNA 1-specific primers and positive colonies were Sanger sequenced using primers specific for FHV RNA 1, pLG338-30 and Drosophila retrotransposons (Table S1, related to Figure 4). Sequences were assembled and analyzed using MacVector. Production of the Sindbis-WT+D G and Control Stocks To produce Sindbis-WT+D G stock, BHK-21 cells were electroporated with 5 mg of Sindbis-WT RNA and 5 mg of D G RNA in an XCell Gene Pulser Biorad. After 48h, supernatant was collected and concentrated by ultracentrifugation as described. To produce the Sindbis-WT control stock, a ''fake'' in vitro transcription of D G RNA was performed, where all the reagents were present except the SP6 enzyme. BHK-21 cells were electroporated with 5 mg of Sindbis-WT RNA and the equivalent in volume of ''fake'' in vitro transcription. In this way, putative traces of D G plasmid used to produce D G RNA by in vitro trancription were present both in the Sindbis-WT and the Sindbis-WT+D G stock. Injection and Titration of Sindbis-Infected Flies Four to six-days old female flies were intrathoracically injected with 50 nL containing 400 PFU of Sindbis-WT, DNA concentration was measured with DNA PicoGreen reagent (Invitrogen) and samples were diluted to 0.2 ng/ml. One ng of DNA was used to prepare libraries with the Nextera XT library kit (Illumina). A PCR of 12 cycles was performed with index primers to amplify libraries, before DNA analysis on a high sensitivity DNA Bioanalyzer chip (Agilent Technologies, 1993.

, Feeding and Titration The insectary conditions for mosquito maintenance were 28 C, 70% relative humidity and a 12 h light: 12 h dark cycle. Adults were maintained with permanent access to 10% sucrose solution, Mosquitoes Rearing, vol.23, p.4, 2018.

, Mosquitoes were offered the infectious or control blood meal for 30 min through a membrane feeding system (Hemotek Ltd) set at 37 C with a piece of desalted pig intestine as the membrane. Following the blood meal, fully engorged females were selected and incubated at 28 C, 70% relative humidity and under a 12 h light: 12 h dark cycle with permanent access to 10% sucrose. Individual mosquitoes were crushed in 70 mL of PBS with a Pellet Pestle, 8 days old female mosquitoes were fed with 10 5 PFU of CHIKV diluted in prewashed human blood (iCareB platform

, Sindbis vDNA Detection by qPCR vDNA detection by qPCR was performed by injecting 4 to 6-day-old female with 10 000 PFU of Sindbis virus and by freezing the flies at the indicated time point. vDNA was extracted from flies as previously described. qPCR was performed using Power SYBR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems) according to the manufacturer's instruction, and run on a StepOne Plus real-time PCR system machine (Applied Biosystems). Primers 1215F and 1267R were used for Sindbis DNA, 25% sucrose for a week or fed only with sucrose. After a week, flies were infected with 400 PFU of Sindbis or Tris-HCl 10 mM, pH 7.5 (as a control), in 50 nL using a Nanoject II injector (Drummond Scientific)

, Plot of Relative vDNA Production Over Relative Viral Load (Figure 6B) Relative vDNA Production

, Wild-type flies, or the indicated Dcr-2 mutant, where infected with 10 000 PFU of Sindbis-WT or Sindbis-highDG, and vDNA accumulation was measured by qPCR at 7 hr post-infection. Relative vDNA production is calculated by dividing the vDNA production of each fly strain by the value obtained for wild-type flies

, Relative Viral Load (x Axis)

, Wild-type or Dcr-2 mutant flies were infected with 400 PFU of Sindbis-WT or Sindbis-highDG, and titers were measured by plaque assay at 3, 5 and 7 days post-infection (n = 10 flies per condition). The percentage of Sindbis-highDG titer relative to Sindbis-WT titer was calculated for these time points. This value was averaged on 3 independent experiments. The final value was

, RNase and DNase Treatments DNA extracted from individual flies was digested with 10 mg/mL of RNase A/T1 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) 1 hr at 37 C, then phenolchlorophorm-purified. Alternatively, DNA was digested using the Turbo DNA-free kit (Life technologies) according to the manufacturers' instructions. vDNA was measured by qPCR

. Langmead, Construction of Dcr-2 helicase Expression Plasmid The helicase domain of Dcr-2 was cloned as a V5/3XFLAG tagged fusion protein into pAc 5.1 V5 His(A) (Invitrogen) using the restriction free cloning method. The 3XFLAG region from p3XFLAG-CMV-9 Expression Vector (Sigma-Aldrich) was amplified by PCR using primers Flag_F and Flag_R (Table S3, related to Figure 6). This PCR product was used as a primer for a second PCR using pAc 5.1 V5 His(A) as template. During this amplification step, the His tag was removed from the original plasmid. To clone the helicase of Drosophila melanogaster Dcr-2 in pAc 5.1 V5 3XFLAG, Dcr-2 helicase was amplified by PCR from cDNA from wild-type flies (w 1118 ) with primers Dicer-2_Flag_F and Dicer-2_Flag_R (Table S3, related to Figure 6). The purified PCR product was used as primer for a PCR using pAc 5.1 V5 3XFLAG as a template. The resulting plasmid, designated pAc5.1 Dcr-2 helicase V5 3XFLAG, carries the coding region of Dcr-2 helicase downstream of the Drosophila actin promoter and two tags for protein purification in the C-terminal region, V5 and 3XFLAG. Final plasmid was sequenced to verify the presence of inserts at the desired positions without mutations, deletions or insertions. Immunoprecipitation Assays S2 cells were seeded at 1x 10 6 cells in 6 wells plate and transfected with 400 ng/well of pAc5.1 Dcr-2 helicase V5 3XFLAG using Effectene Transfection Reagent (QIAGEN) following manufacturer's indications. Controls included empty vector pAc5.1 V5 3XFLAG and pAc5.1 CG4572 V5 3XFLAG. The next day, DVGseq Pipeline Individual flies were crushed in 1 mL of TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) using a Pellet Pestle (Sigma-Aldrich) and RNA was extracted following the manufacturer's instructions. cDNA was produced using 100 ng of RNA using the Maxima H Minus First Strand cDNA synthesis kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific) according to the manufacturer's instructions. cDNA was further amplified by PCR using Phusion polymerase using the primers 414F and 11634R for Sindbis (Table S3, related to Figure S2). PCR products were purified on NucleoSpin Gel and PCR Clean-up column (Macherey-Nagel), 2009.

O. Rnase, Reactions were incubated using a roller shaker for 4 h at 4 C, washed 3X in TBS buffer (50 mM Tris pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl) supplemented with 250mM sucrose and 0.5mM DTT followed by a final wash in TBS supplemented with 250mM sucrose and 0.5mM DTT and RNase OUT. Samples were eluted either with 3X Flag Peptide (Sigma) or lysis buffer without protease inhibitors at high stringency conditions (800mM NaCl) with proteinase K treatment, Thermo Fisher Scientific) and incubated for 30 minutes at 4 C with rocking agitation