China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2024, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (4): 1696-1705.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2024.04.037

• Preventive Veterinary Medicine • Previous Articles    

Effect of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase FBXL8 on the Replication of Avian Leukosis Virus Subgroup A

ZHENG Shiling, CHEN Xueyang, LIU Jing, FANG Chun, LIANG Xiongyan, YANG Yuying   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
  • Received:2023-09-20 Published:2024-03-27

Abstract: 【Objective】 The objective of this study was to prepare chicken E3 ubiquitin ligase FBXL8 polyclonal antibody and to investigate the impact of chicken-derived FBXL8 on the replication of Avian leukosis virus subgroup A (ALV-A) in chicken embryonic fibroblasts (DF-1).【Method】 The FBXL8 gene was amplified by PCR using DF-1 cell cDNA as a template,followed by construction of the recombinant plasmid pET-28a-FBXL8.The recombinant plasmid pET-28a-FBXL8 was transformed into E.coli expression strain RIL for induction and purification.The recombinant protein His-FBXL8 was utilized to immunize 10-month-old New Zealand White rabbits in order to prepare polyclonal antibodies.Western blotting and indirect ELISA were used to identify the immunogenicity and titer of the polyclonal antibody.Overexpression primers and interference sequences targeting FBXL8 gene were designed according to the published FBXL8 gene sequence.Furthermore,the overexpression plasmid psi-flag-FBXL8 and interference plasmid pLKO.1-FBXL8-shRNA were constructed.Western blotting was used to detect the expression effect.Successful overexpression plasmid and interference plasmid were constructed to transfect DF-1 cells,followed by infection with ALV-A after 24 hours.The expression levels of structural proteins P27 and GP85 of ALV-A were detected by semi-quantitative PCR and Western blotting.【Result】 The FBXL8 gene fragment with the size of 1 182 bp was successfully amplified by PCR,and the prokaryotic expression recombinant plasmid pET-28a-FBXL8 was successfully constructed.The induced expression fusion protein His-FBXL8 was 43 ku.Western blotting and indirect ELISA results showed that the prepared rabbit polyclonal antibody of FBXL8 could specifically recognize foreign protein,and the titer of the antibody was 1∶ 64 000.FBXL8 overexpression plasmid and interference plasmid were successfully constructed,which could effectively overexpress and knock down FBXL8 in DF-1 cells.Semi-quantitative PCR and Western blotting results showed that overexpression of FBXL8 inhibited the replication of ALV-A,while knockdown of FBXL8 promoted its replication.【Conclusion】 The FBXL8 polyclonal antibody had good specificity and reactivity.In DF-1 cells,FBXL8 negatively regulated the replication of ALV-A.The results provided an important reference for further exploring the biological characteristics of FBXL8,and laid a foundation for revealing the molecular mechanism of FBXL8 against ALV-A infection.

Key words: FBXL8; Avian leukosis virus subgroup A (ALV-A); polyclonal antibody; virus replication

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