›› 2019, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 1253-1262.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2019.05.001

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Effect of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 Gene Knockout on Proliferation of Pseudorabies Virus

ZHANG Shuang, FAN Shuangshuang, CHANG Wenru, DING Guangxu, GUO Ruizhen, DUAN Lifang, DU Yongkun, CHU Beibei, YANG Guoyu, WANG Jiang   

  1. Key Laboratory of Animal Biochemistry and Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affiars, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2018-12-03 Online:2019-05-20 Published:2019-05-20

Abstract:

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of knockout of interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) on the replication of pseudorabies virus (PRV).The IRF3 knockout PK15 cell line was established using lentiviral-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology.The recombinant plasmid pIRF3-sgRNA was constructed and transfected into HEK293T/17 cells.Lentivirus was obtained and infected with PK15 cells.The polyclonal cell line was obtained by puromycin screening.After T7 digestion,PK15-IRF3-/- monoclonal stable cell line was obtained by limiting dilution method.To verify whether the stable cell line of IRF3 gene was successfully constructed,Real-time PCR and Western blotting were used to detect the expression of PRV-related genes and proteins.Fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry were used to observe the virus replication.The results showed that the fluorescence intensity of PK15-IRF3-/- cells was significantly stronger than that of PK15 cells after infection of PRV-GFP in PK15-IRF3-/- cell line.The PK15-IRF3-/- virus titer was significantly stronger than that of PK15 cells after infection with PRV-QXX,and the gE protein level of PRV was significantly higher than that of PK15 cells.The same results were obtained by detecting changes of PRV TK gene in the two cells at the mRNA level.Further studies showed that IFN-β mRNA in PK15 cells increased significantly with time after infection with PRV-QXX (P<0.05),but there was no significant change in IFN-β mRNA in PK15-IRF3-/- cells.The above results indicated that knocking out IRF3 significantly promoted the proliferation of PRV,and IRF3 played an important role in virus replication,providing new methods and strategies for the prevention and control of pseudorabies.

Key words: interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3); pseudorabies virus (PRV); CRISPR/Cas9

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