scholarly journals Significant Interference with Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Pandemic and Classical Strain Replication in Small-Intestine Epithelial Cells Using an shRNA Expression Vector

Vaccines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Da Shi ◽  
Xiaobo Wang ◽  
Hongyan Shi ◽  
Jiyu Zhang ◽  
Yuru Han ◽  
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Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) re-emerged in China in 2010 and is now widespread. Evidence indicates that highly virulent porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) strains belonging to genotype G2 caused a large-scale outbreak of diarrhea. Currently, vaccines derived from PEDV classical strains do not effectively prevent infection by virulent PEDV strains, and no specific drug is available to treat the disease. RNA interference (RNAi) is a novel and effective way to cure a wide range of viruses. We constructed three short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-expressing plasmids (shR-N307, shR-N463, and shR-N1071) directed against nucleocapsid (N) and determined their antiviral activities in intestine epithelial cells infected with a classical CV777 strain and LNCT2. We verified that shR-N307, shR-N463, and shR-N1071 effectively inhibited the expression of the transfected N gene in vitro, comparable to the control shRNA. We further demonstrated the shRNAs markedly reduced PEDV CV777 and LNCT2 replication upon downregulation of N production. Therefore, this study provides a new strategy for the design of antiviral methods against coronaviruses by targeting their processivity factors.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqian Zhang ◽  
Chang Li ◽  
Bingzhou Zhang ◽  
Zhonghua Li ◽  
Wei Zeng ◽  
...  

AbstractThe variant virulent porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) strain (YN15) can cause severe porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED); however, the attenuated vaccine-like PEDV strain (YN144) can induce immunity in piglets. To investigate the differences in pathogenesis and epigenetic mechanisms between the two strains, differential expression and correlation analyses of the microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA in swine testicular (ST) cells infected with YN15, YN144, and mock were performed on three comparison groups (YN15 vs Control, YN144 vs Control, and YN15 vs YN144). The mRNA and miRNA expression profiles were obtained using next-generation sequencing (NGS), and the differentially expressed (DE) (p-value < 0.05) mRNA and miRNA were obtained using DESeq R package. mRNAs targeted by DE miRNAs were predicted using the miRanda algortithm. 8039, 8631 and 3310 DE mRNAs, and 36, 36, and 22 DE miRNAs were identified in the three comparison groups, respectively. 14,140, 15,367 and 3771 DE miRNA–mRNA (targeted by DE miRNAs) interaction pairs with negatively correlated expression patterns were identified, and interaction networks were constructed using Cytoscape. Six DE miRNAs and six DE mRNAs were randomly selected to verify the sequencing data by real-time relative quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Based on bioinformatics analysis, we discovered the differences were mostly involved in host immune responses and viral pathogenicity, including NF-κB signaling pathway and bacterial invasion of epithelial cells, etc. This is the first comprehensive comparison of DE miRNA–mRNA pairs in YN15 and YN144 infection in vitro, which could provide novel strategies for the prevention and control of PED.


Virus Genes ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Shen ◽  
Chunhong Zhang ◽  
Pengju Guo ◽  
Zhicheng Liu ◽  
Minhua Sun ◽  
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Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fusheng Si ◽  
Xiaoxia Hu ◽  
Chenyang Wang ◽  
Bingqing Chen ◽  
Ruiyang Wang ◽  
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The genomes of coronaviruses carry accessory genes known to be associated with viral virulence. The single accessory gene of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), ORF3, is dispensable for virus replication in vitro, while viral mutants carrying ORF3 truncations exhibit an attenuated phenotype of which the underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, we studied the effect of ORF3 deletion on the proliferation of PEDV in Vero cells. To this end, four recombinant porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses (PEDVs) were rescued using targeted RNA recombination, three carrying the full-length ORF3 gene from different PEDV strains, and one from which the ORF3 gene had been deleted entirely. Our results showed that PEDVs with intact or naturally truncated ORF3 replicated to significantly higher titers than PEDV without an ORF3. Further characterization revealed that the extent of apoptosis induced by PEDV infection was significantly lower with the viruses carrying an intact or C-terminally truncated ORF3 than with the virus lacking ORF3, indicating that the ORF3 protein as well as its truncated form interfered with the apoptosis process. Collectively, we conclude that PEDV ORF3 protein promotes virus proliferation by inhibiting cell apoptosis caused by virus infection. Our findings provide important insight into the role of ORF3 protein in the pathogenicity of PEDV.


2020 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 108511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian-Wei Wang ◽  
Mi Wang ◽  
Jing Zhan ◽  
Qian-Yu Liu ◽  
Lin-lin Fang ◽  
...  

Virus Genes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Shen ◽  
Chunhong Zhang ◽  
Pengju Guo ◽  
Zhicheng Liu ◽  
Jianfeng Zhang

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Li ◽  
Fang Fu ◽  
Shanshan Guo ◽  
Hongfeng Wang ◽  
Xijun He ◽  
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ABSTRACTPorcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), a member of the group of alphacoronaviruses, is the pathogen of a highly contagious gastrointestinal swine disease. The elucidation of the events associated with the intestinal epithelial response to PEDV infection has been limited by the absence of goodin vitroporcine intestinal models that recapitulate the multicellular complexity of the gastrointestinal tract. Here, we generated swine enteroids from the intestinal crypt stem cells of the duodenum, jejunum, or ileum and found that the generated enteroids are able to satisfactorily recapitulate the complicated intestinal epitheliumin vivoand are susceptible to infection by PEDV. PEDV infected multiple types of cells, including enterocytes, stem cells, and goblet cells, and exhibited segmental infection discrepancies compared with ileal enteroids and colonoids, and this finding was verifiedin vivo. Moreover, the clinical isolate PEDV-JMS propagated better in ileal enteroids than the cell-adapted isolate PEDV-CV777, and PEDV infection suppressed interferon (IFN) production early during the infection course. IFN lambda elicited a potent antiviral response and inhibited PEDV in enteroids more efficiently than IFN alpha (IFN-α). Therefore, swine enteroids provide a novelin vitromodel for exploring the pathogenesis of PEDV and for thein vitrostudy of the interplay between a host and a variety of swine enteric viruses.IMPORTANCEPEDV is a highly contagious enteric coronavirus that causes significant economic losses, and the lack of a goodin vitromodel system is a major roadblock to an in-depth understanding of PEDV pathogenesis. Here, we generated a porcine intestinal enteroid model for PEDV infection. Utilizing porcine intestinal enteroids, we demonstrated that PEDV infects multiple lineages of the intestinal epithelium and preferably infects ileal enteroids over colonoids and that enteroids prefer to respond to IFN lambda 1 over IFN-α. These events recapitulate the events that occurin vivo. This study constitutes the first use of a primary intestinal enteroid model to investigate the susceptibility of porcine enteroids to PEDV and to determine the antiviral response following infection. Our study provides important insights into the events associated with PEDV infection of the porcine intestine and provides a valuablein vitromodel for studying not only PEDV but also other swine enteric viruses.


2017 ◽  
pp. JVI.01677-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingzhan Zhang ◽  
Hanzhong Ke ◽  
Anthony Blikslager ◽  
Takashi Fujita ◽  
Dongwan Yoo

Type III interferons (IFN-λs) play a vital role to maintain the antiviral state of the mucosal epithelial surface in the gut, and in turn, enteric viruses may have evolved to evade the type III IFN responses during infection. To study of the possible immune evasion of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) from type III IFN response, a line of porcine intestinal epithelial cells was developed as a cell model for PEDV replication. IFN-λ1 and IFN-λ3 inhibited the PEDV replication, indicating the anti-PEDV activity of type III IFNs. Of the 21 PEDV proteins, nsp1, nsp3, nsp5, nsp8, nsp14, nsp15, nsp16, ORF3, E, M, and N were found to suppress the type III IFN activities, and the IRF1 signaling mediated the suppression. PEDV specifically inhibited IRF1 nuclear translocation. Peroxisome is the innate antiviral signaling platform for activation of IRF1-mediated IFN-λ production, and peroxisomes were found to decrease in number in PEDV-infected cells. PEDV nsp1 blocked the nuclear translocation of IRF1 and reduced the number of peroxisomes to suppress IRF1-mediated type III IFNs. Mutational studies showed the conserved residues of nsp1 were crucial for IRF1-mediated IFN-λ suppression. Our study for the first time provides the evidence that the porcine enteric virus PEDV downregulates and evades the IRF1-mediated type III IFN responses by reducing the peroxisomes.IMPORTANCEPorcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is a highly contagious enteric coronavirus emerged in swine in the US and has caused severe economic losses. PEDV targets the intestinal epithelial cells in the gut, and intestinal epithelial cells selectively induce and respond to the production of type III interferons (IFNs). However, little is known about modulation of type III IFN response by PEDV in the intestinal epithelial cells. In this study, we established a porcine intestinal epithelial cell model for PEDV replication. We found that PEDV inhibited the IRF1-mediated type III IFN production by decreasing the peroxisomes in number in the porcine intestinal epithelial cells. We also demonstrated that the conserved residues in the PEDV nsp1 protein were crucial for IFN suppression. This study for the first time showed the PEDV evasion of type III IFN response in the intestinal epithelial cells. It provides valuable information on the host cell-virus interactions not only for PEDV but also other enteric viral infections in swine.


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