All positive-strand RNA viruses reorganize host intracellular membranes to assemble their viral replication complexes (VRCs); however, how these viruses modulate host lipid metabolism to accommodate such membrane proliferation and rearrangements is not well defined. We show that a significantly increased phosphatidylcholine (PC) content is associated with brome mosaic virus (BMV) replication in both natural host barley and alternate host yeast based on a lipidomic analysis. Enhanced PC levels are primarily associated with the perinuclear ER membrane, where BMV replication takes place. More specifically, BMV replication protein 1a interacts with and recruits Cho2p (choline requiring 2), a host enzyme involved in PC synthesis, to the site of viral replication. These results suggest that PC synthesized at the site of VRC assembly, not the transport of existing PC, is responsible for the enhanced accumulation. Blocking PC synthesis by deleting the CHO2 gene resulted in VRCs with wider diameters than those in wild-type cells; however, BMV replication was significantly inhibited, highlighting the critical role of PC in VRC formation and viral replication. We further show that enhanced PC levels also accumulate at the replication sites of hepatitis C virus and poliovirus, revealing a conserved feature among a group of positive-strand RNA viruses. Our work also highlights a potential broad-spectrum antiviral strategy that would disrupt PC synthesis at the sites of viral replication but would not alter cellular processes.positive-strand RNA viruses | viral replication complexes | virus-host interactions | virus control | phospholipids A ll positive-strand RNA viruses [(+)RNA viruses], which include numerous important human, animal, and plant pathogens, share similar strategies for genomic replication. A highly conserved and indispensable feature of their replication is the proliferation and reorganization of host cellular membranes to assemble viral replication complexes (VRCs). Despite this central importance, it is largely unknown how cellular membranes are rearranged by the viral replication proteins and how cellular lipid metabolism is modulated to accommodate membrane proliferation and remodeling.Brome mosaic virus (BMV) serves as a model for understanding VRC formation of (+)RNA viruses (1). BMV is the type member of the plant virus family Bromoviridae and a representative member of the alphavirus-like superfamily, which includes many human, animal, and plant-infecting viruses (2). BMV encodes two replication proteins, 1a and 2a pol . 2a pol serves as the replicase, whereas 1a has an N-terminal methyltransferase domain (3, 4) and a C-terminal ATPase/helicase-like domain (5). Together, 1a and 2a pol are necessary and sufficient for BMV replication. BMV induces vesicular structures in its surrogate host, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and its natural host, barley (6, 7). These structures, termed spherules, have been shown to be the VRCs in yeast as 1a, 2a pol , and nascent viral RNAs reside in the interior of th...