China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (3): 1085-1095.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2022.03.031

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Construction of PK-15 Cells Stably Expressing IL-10 and Its Application in PCV2 Proliferation

ZHANG Jinghan1, LI Zhilan1, HAN Diangang2, HE Shuai1, LIU Jinhua3, LYU Nianci1, ZOU Fengcai1, CHAI Jun1, ZHANG Yifang1   

  1. 1. College of Veterinary Medicine, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China;
    2. Kunming Customs Technology Centre, Kunming 650051, China;
    3. College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2021-09-02 Online:2022-03-05 Published:2022-03-03

Abstract: 【Objective】 This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of interleukin-10 (IL-10) on the replication of Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), screen high infectious PCV2 cell lines, and improve the virus titer of PCV2, and lay a foundation for the subsequent vaccine research and development and the study of the role of IL-10 in PCV2 infection.【Method】 Porcine IL-10 gene was amplified by PCR, the target gene was linked to lentivirus expression vector (pCDH-CMV-MCS-EF1-GFP+Puro), and the recombinant plasmid pCDH-CMV-IL-10 was obtained.It was co-transfected with package plasmids psPAX2 and pMD2.G into 293T cells for lentivirus packaging.PK-15 cells were infected with the collected lentivirus supernatant and screened by puromycin to obtain PK-15-IL-10 cell lines.The control cells were named PK-15-pCDH and PK-15, respectively.After PCV2 was infecting PK-15-IL-10, PK-15-pCDH and PK-15 cell lines, cell fluid was collected at 24, 48 and 72 h, respectively, and cell viability was detected by CCK-8.The expression of IL-10 gene and the replication of PCV2 were detected by Real-time quantitative PCR and Western blotting.Indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) was used to observe the replication of PCV2 in cells and determine the virus titer of PCV2 (TCID50).【Result】 The recombinant plasmid pCDH-CMV-IL-10 was successfully constructed.293T cells were co-transfected with the packaged plasmids psPAX2 and pMD2.G, and the cell status was the best and the fluorescence was the strongest at 48 h.PK-15 cells were co-transfected with lentivirus supernatant for 48 and 72 h, respectively.The fluorescence of pCDH-CMV-IL-10 group was the strongest, and they were cultured in complete medium with puromycin concentration of 2.5 μg/mL to obtain stable cell lines with green fluorescence.Real-time quantitative PCR and Western blotting results showed that the expression of IL-10 gene in pCDH-IL-10 cell lines was significantly higher than that in control group PK-15-pCDH and PK-15.The copy number of PCV2 was increased by four times, and its replication capacity was enhanced.After the virus was diluted and passed for 3 generations, PCV2 in PK-15-IL-10 cells was extremely significantly higher than that in PK-15 cells (P<0.01).Cell proliferation assay showed that overexpression of porcine IL-10 gene had no significant effect on cell viability.IFA results showed that fluorescence in PK-15-IL-10 cells was stronger than that in PK-15 cells.TCID50 of PCV2 in PK-15-IL-10 cells was extremely significantly higher than that of PK-15 cells at 48 h after infection (P<0.01).【Conclusion】 The lentiviral expression vector of pCDH-CMV-IL-10 was successfully constructed and used to infect PK-15 cells.After further culture, PK-15-IL-10 cell line expressing IL-10 was screened, and infection with PCV2 could promote the replication of PCV2 in PK-15 cells.These results provided reference for later vaccine research, and laid a foundation for further study on the effect of IL-10 on the replication of PCV2 in PK-15 cells.

Key words: Porcine cyclovirus type 2(PCV2); interleukin-10(IL-10); immunosuppression; lentiviral expression vector; stable-expressing cell lines

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