Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (6): 1371-1381.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2020.020

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Gene Sequence Analysis, Protein Structure Prediction and Subcellular Localization of MGF 360-9L from African Swine Fever Virus

SHEN Chaochao, LI Guoli, ZHANG Dajun, XU Guowei, HOU Jing, LI Dan, DANG Wen, ZHANG Keshan*, ZHENG Haixue*, LIU Xiangtao   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China
  • Received:2019-12-17 Online:2020-06-25 Published:2020-06-23

Abstract: Previous research results showed that African swine fever virus (ASFV) MGF360-9L can significantly inhibit the host's innate immune response. Herein we compared and analyzed MGF360-9L gene sequences of ASFV and predicted the relationship between MGF360-9L structure and function. In this study, bioinformatics method was used to analyze and predict its pri-mary, secondary and tertiary structure of the expressed protein. Based on the sequence of Georgia 2007/1 published in GenBank (FR682468.1), the MGF360-9L gene was synthesized and its recombinant eukaryotic expression plasmid was constructed. The recombinant plasmid was transfected into PK-15 cells, then gene expression was identified by Western blotting, and subcellular localization of this protein was observed by indirect immunoinfluscent assay (IFA). Results showed that MGF360-9L gene is highly conserved among type II ASFV strains, Georgia 2007/1 is the representative virus strain. The homology analysis results of 54 different ASFV strains is consistent with its phylogenetic relationships of them, the conserved sequence is a 378 bp fragment at the 3'terminal of MGF360-9L. The advanced structure of this protein was mainly α-helix. Nuclear location sequence (NLS) prediction revealed that it might be located in the nucleus, and is consistent with the results of MGF360-9L IFA in PK-15 cells. This study accumulated significant data for further research on inhibition of innate immune response by ASFV MGF360-9L and pathogenic mechanisms of the MGF360 gene family in ASFV.

Key words: African swine fever virus, MGF 360-9L gene, sequence analysis, structural prediction, subcellular localization

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