ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2014, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1): 129-135.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2014.01.018

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The Role of Scavenger Receptors on Dendritic Cells in Presenting VP1-VP4 Antigen of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus to T Cells

GAO Yun-huan, LI Na, DONG Chang-hai, TANG Ran-xiao, LI Li-min, WANG Jia-xin*   

  1. (College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding 071000, China)
  • Received:2013-07-22 Online:2014-01-23 Published:2014-01-23

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the scavenger receptors on dendritic cells in presentation of recombinant VP1-VP4 of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) to T cells in vitro. The prokaryotic expression vector of pET-32a-VP1-VP4 was constructed and the VP1-VP4 protein was expressed and purified. Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) pretreated with scavenger receptor inhibitors were pulsed with recombinant VP1-VP4 antigen and then cocultured with lymph node T cells. The culture supernatants were harvested at different time points for
determining IFN
-γ contents with ELISA. The results showed that the IFN-γ levels of experimental groups were significantly higher than that of control group at different time points (P0.01). Our data indicate that scavenger receptors on BMDCs are able to recognize recombinant VP1-VP4 protein and play a negative regulatory role in antigen presentation of BMDCs to initiate lymph node T cell responses.

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