生物
基因沉默
小RNA
细胞凋亡
病毒学
病毒复制
基因敲除
转染
下调和上调
小干扰RNA
病毒
RNA干扰
细胞培养
细胞生物学
基因
核糖核酸
遗传学
作者
Liyun Zhou,Jiaxin Li,Areayi Haiyilati,Xiaoqi Li,Li Gao,Hong Cao,Yongqiang Wang,Shijun Zheng
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.vetmic.2021.109294
摘要
Avian reovirus (ARV) is an important pathogen causing multiple types of clinical diseases in chickens, including viral arthritis, chronic respiratory diseases, retarded growth, and malabsorption syndrome, leading to considerable economic losses to the poultry industry across the globe. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression post transcriptionally by silencing or degrading their targets, thus playing important roles in the host response to pathogenic infection. However, the role of miRNAs in host response to ARV infection is still not clear. Here, we show that infection of DF-1 cells (a chicken fibroblast cell line) with ARV markedly altered the expressions of 583 chicken miRNAs(gga-miR), and that transfection of DF-1 cells with gga-miR-29a-3p, an upregulated miRNA in ARV-infected cells, significantly suppressed ARV-induced apoptosis via directly targeting Caspase-3, retarding ARV growth in cells. In contrast, knockdown of endogenous gga-miR-29a-3p in DF-1 cells by specific miRNA inhibitor enhanced ARV-induced apoptosis and increased the content and activity of caspase-3, facilitating viral growth in cells. Consistently, inhibition of Caspase-3 activity by inhibitors decreased viral titers in cell cultures. Thus, gga-miR-29a-3p plays an important antiviral role in host response to ARV infection by suppression of apoptosis via targeting Caspase-3. This information will further our understandings of how host cells combat against ARV infection by self-encoded small RNA and increase our knowledge of the role of microRNAs in host response to pathogenic infection.
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