ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (4): 600-607.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2015.04.013

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Construction of Porcine RIG-I Eukaryotic Expressing Plasmid and Its Antiviral Effects Research against Foot and mouth Disease Virus

WANG Guo-qing 1,ZHU Zi-xiang 2,CAO Wei-jun 2,YANG Fan 2,MAO Ruo-qing 2,LI Dan 2,LIU Lei 1*,ZHENG Hai-xue 2*   

  1. (1.College of Veterinary Medicine,Gansu Agricultural University,Lanzhou 730070,China;2.National Foot and Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology,Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Lanzhou 730046,China)
  • Received:2014-07-28 Online:2015-04-23 Published:2015-04-23

Abstract:

To investigate whether pattern recognition receptor RIG-I has antiviral role against foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV),we extracted porcine cellular RNA from PK15 cells,and the complete CDS region of RIG-I was obtained by using two-segmental amplification and fusion PCR methods.Subsequently,the eukaryotic expressing plasmid was constructed.The expression of the plasmid was confirmed by Western blotting and indirect fluorescence assay (IFA),which showed RIG-I was successfully expressed.The IFA result indicated porcine RIG-I protein was located in the cellular cytoplasm.The results of infection assay suggested that FMDV infection induced the upregulation of RIG-I expression,which implied the potential connection between RIG-I and FMDV.Over-expression assay confirmed that RIG-I inhibited FMDV replication,and downregulation of RIG-I significantly promoted FMDV replication.These results indicated that RIG-I had antiviral effect against FMDV.In conclusion,this study provided references for further research on antiviral mechanism of RIG-I against FMDV.It also paves ways for the research of antiviral mechanism of innate immune system after FMDV infection.

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