Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (6): 1652-1661.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2021.06.019

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Porcine Cathepsin S Inhibits the Replication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O in PK-15 Cells

SHI Xijuan1,2, LIU Yuanzi2, ZHANG Dajun2, HOU Jing2, SHEN Chaochao2, YANG Bo2, ZHANG Ting2, YUAN Xingguo1, REN Ruirui2, DU Xiaohua1*, ZHANG Keshan2*, ZHENG Haixue2, LIU Xiangtao2   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology/Key Laboratory of Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture/National Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, China
  • Received:2020-09-09 Online:2021-06-23 Published:2021-06-22

Abstract: The previous research data showed that the expression level of cathepsin S (CTSS) in sow colostrum was significantly higher than that of mature milk and CTSS has the effect of inhibiting virus replication. This study aims to explore the effect of pig-derived CTSS on the replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype O (FMDV-O) and the production of antiviral cytokines induced by FMDV-O.PK-15 cells were infected with FMDV-O. The effect of FMDV-O infection on the expression of endogenous CTSS was investigated by RT-qPCR and Western blot at the transcriptional and translational level, respectively, and the effect of FMDV-O infection on the enzyme activity of CTSS in vitro was determined by CTSS activity detection kit. According to the CTSS gene sequence (XM_021089893.1) published by GenBank, the eukaryotic expression plasmid of CTSS was constructed and transfected into PK-15 cells by liposome. The expression of CTSS was detected by Western blot. On this basis, the effect of overexpressed CTSS on FMDV-O replication and the level of antiviral cytokine mRNA induced by FMDV-O was detected by Western blot and RT-qPCR, and three pairs of siRNA specific to CTSS were designed and synthesized. Western blot and RT-qPCR were used to detect the changes of CTSS and FMDV-O. The results showed that PK-15 cells infected with FMDV-O could significantly up-regulate the expression of porcine CTSS and enhance the activity of CTSS enzyme; overexpression of CTSS could inhibit the replication of FMDV-O in PK-15 cells, which may be through promoting the production of antiviral cytokines induced by FMDV-O; the interference sequence siRNA-2947 down-regulated the expression of endogenous CTSS and promoted the replication of FMDV-O. Porcine CTSS promoting the production of host antiviral cytokines may be one of the reasons for inhibiting FMDV-O replication. This study provides a basis for further exploring the role and mechanism of host CTSS in anti-FMDV innate immune response.

Key words: cathepsin S, FMDV-O, PK-15 cell, antiviral function

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