ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2018, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6): 1274-1281.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2018.06.020

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The Mechanism of Porcine Beclin1 Gene on Autophagy and Apoptosis

HU Lin1, NAN Liang-kang1, ZHANG Min1, XU Su-tong1, YANG Liao-han1, LI Shuai-feng1, WANG Kai1, LIU Zheng-fei2, ZHANG Shu-jun1*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
    2. The State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2017-09-14 Online:2018-06-23 Published:2018-06-22

Abstract:

To study the relationship of autophagy and apoptosis after PK-15 cells were infected by pseudorabies virus (PRV), porcine host anti-apoptotic family proteins (Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL) interacted with Beclin1 were further analyzed. Western blotting (WB) was taken to measure the expression of LC3 and P62 proteins; and the level of apoptosis in PK-15 cells infected by PRV was investigated by Flow cytometry. Finally, Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) was used to investigate the interaction between Beclin1 and Bcl-2/Bcl-xL. The expression of LC3-Ⅱ significantly increased, while that of P62 and p-AKT (S473) significantly decreased. In addition, the results of Flow cytometry showed that apoptosis was induced by PRV. Meanwhile, cleaved Caspase-9/8 significantly increased compared to control group detected by WB. Moreover, Co-IP results showed that the infection of PRV prevented the association between Beclin1/Bcl-2 and Beclin1/Bcl-xL. PRV induces autophagy which may depend on PI3K-I/AKT and apoptosis which simultaneously active Caspase-9 and Caspase-8, respectively. Autophagy might be induced through the interactions of Beclin1/Bcl-2 or Beclin1/Bcl-xL.

Key words: pseudorabies virus, autophagy, apoptosis, Beclin1

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