Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (3): 1336-1343.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.03.032

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Effect of HE Gene Receptor Binding Domain Variation on Bovine Coronavirus Infection

JIANG Huihua(), ZHAO Long, GUO Kangkang*()   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
  • Received:2024-05-07 Online:2025-03-23 Published:2025-04-02
  • Contact: GUO Kangkang E-mail:3462350283@qq.com;guokk2007@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Abstract:

To study the effect of HE gene receptor binding domain variation on bovine coronavirus (BCoV) infection, recombinant plasmids pEGFP-HE420, pEGFP-HE424 and pEGFP-HE428 were constructed. Three recombinant plasmids were transfected into HCT-8 cells respectively and then infected with NX-2021-B2-HE424 to detect viral mRNA expression levels at adsorption, internalization and replication stages by RT-qPCR, and to detect viral intracellular and extracellular titers by TCID50. The results showed that pEGFP-HE420, pEGFP-HE424 and pEGFP-HE428 could be expressed in HCT-8 cells. Compared with pEGFP-HE424, deletion or insertion of HE gene receptor binding domain did not affect the adsorption, internalization, replication and intracellular virus titer. Deletion of HE gene receptor binding domain decreased extracellular titers of BCoV. HE gene receptor binding domain insertion did not affect the BCoV extracellular virus titer. In this study, three recombinant plasmids of HE genes with only receptor binding domain variation was constructed to explore its effect on bovine coronavirus infection in HCT-8 cells, providing data support for the study of the infection mechanism of BCoV.

Key words: bovine coronavirus, HE gene, receptor binding domain vibration, viral infection

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