Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (11): 5839-5851.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.11.040

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Construction and Proteomic Analysis of Macrophage Cell Lines Stably Expressing NS3-NS4A and NS3pro-NS4A of Classical Swine Fever Virus

ZHENG Xiaoru(), WANG Yidan, ZHANG Lihong, YANG Yingying, ZHAO Xinru, LI Min, HUANG Juan, ZHANG Qiaoya*(), CAO Zhi*()   

  1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
  • Received:2024-07-29 Online:2025-11-23 Published:2025-11-27
  • Contact: ZHANG Qiaoya, CAO Zhi E-mail:zzwyyxrr@163.com;201801056@qau.edu.cn;201901252@qau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to better explore the interaction between host innate immunity and classical swine fever virus (CSFV) by constructing a stable expressing CSFV NS3/NS4A and pCMV-CBH-GFP-2A-Puro-CSFV NS3pro-NS4A, pCMV-CBH-GFP-2A-Puro-CSFV NS3-NS4A and pCMV-CBH-GFP-2A-Puro recombinant expression vector were separately infected with HEK-293T cells packaged out of the lentivirus. Then, packaged lentivirus was used to infect porcine alveolar macrophages (3D4/21), monoclonal screening of infected cell lines was performed to obtain stable cell lines, and the protein expression of stable cell lines was verified by Western blot. Proteomic analysis was conducted on it to screen out the interacting proteins of MAPK and PI3K pathways, and functional analysis was carried out. Detection of CDK4, CDC37, CASP3, IKBKG, and NFκB1 Protein Expression Levels via Western blot Analysis. The results showed that the amino acid sequences of NS3-NS4A and NS3pro-NS4A lentiviral vectors constructed by MegAlign analysis were correct without frameshift. After the recombinant expression vector infected 293T cells for 24 hours, the infection efficiency could reach more than 90%, the lentvirus was successfully packaged, and the stable expression of CSFV NS3-NS4A and NS3pro-NS4A macrophage cell lines were successfully obtained by Western blot analysis. Through proteomic analysis, 11 up-regulated and 24 down-regulated proteins in the MAPK and PI3K pathways were screened out in the NS3-NS4A/mock group. Western blot analysis revealed that CSFV NS3-NS4A significantly reduced the expression of CASP3, NFκB1, and IKBKG in the MAPK pathway, as well as CDK4 and CDC37 in the PI3K pathway. In this study, 3D4/21 cell lines stably expressing NS3-NS4A and NS3pro-NS4A proteins were successfully constructed, and conducted functional analysis on the key proteins screened by proteomics, which provides a material basis for studying the mechanism of CSFV NS3-NS4A regulating the host innate immune responses.

Key words: classical swine fever virus, NS3-NS4A, NS3pro-NS4A, porcine alveolar macrophages, stably expressing

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