ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (11): 2125-2134.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.11.014

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P58IPK Regulates Porcine Circovirus Type 2-induced Autophagy through PERK/eIF2α Pathway

YANG Liao-han1, WANG Kai1, XU Su-tong1, ZHANG Min1, HU Lin1, HE Qi-gai2, ZHANG Shu-jun1*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Agricultural Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, College of Animal Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
    2. The State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • Received:2017-05-13 Online:2017-11-23 Published:2017-11-23

Abstract:

This experiment was conducted to study the relationship between porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection activated PERK/eIF2α pathway and autophagy, and the possible function of overexpressing chaperone P58IPK within it. PK-15 cells were treated with PERK specific inhibitor GSK2606414, siRNA, followed by PCV2 infection for 24 h. Western blot was taken to measure phosphorylated eIF2α (p-eIF2α), LC3-Ⅱ and ATG5-ATG12 expression at first. Then P58IPK overexpression vector was constructed and transiently transfected, combined with Western blot to study the influence of overexpressing P58IPK on PCV2-induced PERK/eIF2α pathway and autophagy. Western blot results showed PERK specific inhibitor GSK2606414 and siRNA significantly suppressed PCV2-induced p-eIF2α (P<0.01) and LC3-Ⅱ (P<0.01) expression. While overexpressing P58IPK not only resulted in PCV2-induced p-eIF2α (P<0.01), ATG5-ATG12 (P<0.01) and LC3-Ⅱ (P<0.01) decrease, but also significantly downregulated activating PCV2 copies number (P<0.01). Results indicate PCV2 infection induces autophagy through activating PERK/eIF2α pathway. Overexpression of P58IPK represses PCV2-induced autophagy through inhibiting PERK pathway, consequently, inhibiting PCV2 replication.

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