Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (2): 478-487.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2021.02.020

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Establishment of Apoptosis Associated Dot Like Protein Knockout PK-15 Cell Line and Its Effect on Porcine Pseudorabies Virus Infection

ZHAI Yunyun1, LI Jiajia1, ZHANG Shuang1, REN Ziyu1, JIN Qianyue2, DU Yongkun1*, WAN Bo1*   

  1. 1. International Joint Research Center for Animal Immunology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China;
    2. Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2020-07-20 Online:2021-02-23 Published:2021-02-24

Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the effect of ASC gene knockout on the infection of pseudorabies virus (PRV) in PK-15 cells. The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology mediated by lentivirus was applied to knock out the ASC gene of porcine renal epithelial cell (PK-15), and the efficiency was detected with T7 endonuclease. Flow cytometry was applied to detect the difference of PRV-GFP proliferation between in PK-15 and PK15-ASC-/- cells. The transcription levels of PRV-gB, IL-1β, IFN-β, ISG15 genes and the expression of PRV-gE protein were tested with RT-PCR and Western blot, the titer of progeny PRV was determined with TCID50 method. The results showed that specific sgRNA could carry out efficient gene editing for ASC gene, and the activity of PK15-ASC-/- cells was not significantly affected. After infection, the proliferation of PRV-GFP in PK15-ASC-/- cells was significantly inhibited compared with that in PK-15 cells. Besides, both the transcription level of PRV-gB gene and the expression level of PRV-gE protein in PK15-ASC-/- cells were also lower than that in PK-15 cells. Nevertheless, the transcription level of IFN-β and ISG15 gene presented the opposite results. The virus titer test showed that knockout of ASC gene could significantly inhibit the proliferation of PRV progeny virus. In this study, a PK15-ASC-/- cell line was successfully constructed, and in which the PRV infection was significantly inhibited.

Key words: pseudorabies virus, apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD, innate immunity, porcine kidney epithelial cells

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