Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (12): 4419-4428.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2022.12.027

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Preliminary Study on the Function of MGF360-13L Gene of African Swine Fever Virus Multigene Family

CHEN Danian1,2, MA Xusheng2, DAI Junfei2, WANG Yang2, LI Qian2, BAI Heng1, MAO Tiantian1, LIU Yongsheng3, DING Long4, CHEN Haohan4, CHEN Siyan4, RAO Yufei4, JIA Ning1*, ZHANG Jie2,3*, ZHENG Haixue2, LIU Xiangtao2   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    3. Hebei Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, China;
    4. Shenzhen Zhenrui Biological Science and Techonology Co. Ltd., Shenzhen 518000, China
  • Received:2021-12-01 Online:2022-12-23 Published:2022-12-25

Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the function of MGF360-13L gene of African swine fever virus (ASFV) multigene family. The MGF360-13L gene was analyzed by bioinformatics software. The eukaryotic expressing plasmid pVAX1-MGF360-13L was constructed and transfected into 293T cells for expression. The MGF360-13L gene deleted strain ASFV-ΔMGF360-13L was constructed by homologous recombination. After infecting the gene deleted virus strain and parent virus strain (ASFV CN/GS/2018) in porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) with the same multiplicity of infection (MOI=0.01), the virus titer was calculated by erythrocyte adsorption test (HAD) and the in vitro growth curve was drawn; ASFV-ΔMGF360-13L and ASFV CN/GS/2018 were infected with porcine bone marrow macrophages (BMDM) with MOI=1. The expression levels of inflammatory factors IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α were determined by qPCR and ELISA. The results showed that, MGF360-13L gene was relatively conservative in ASFV gene type II. The coding protein belongs to non secretory type, without transmembrane region and with good hydrophilicity; The eukaryotic expression plasmid pVAX1-MGF360-13L was expressed by 293T cells; The MGF360-13L deleted strain ASFV-ΔMGF360-13L was successfully constructed. There was no significant difference between ASFV-ΔMGF360-13L and ASFV CN/GS/2018 in in vitro replication. After ASFV-ΔMGF360-13L infected BMDM, the levels of transcription and secretion of inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α were significantly higher than those of ASFV CN/GS/2018. In this study, the MGF360-13L gene deleted strain of ASFV were successfully constructed, and it was confirmed as a non-essential gene for ASFV replication and have the function of inhibiting the expression of inflammatory factors. This study provides clues for further annotation of ASFV MGF360-13L gene function.

Key words: ASFV, MGF360-13L, inflammatory cytokines, growth curve measurement

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