期刊
ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH
卷 99, 期 2, 页码 149-157出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.05.009
关键词
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV); Porcine Mx1 (poMx1); Protein transduction domain (PTD); Antiviral activity
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31001062]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is the causative agent of Vesicular stomatitis (VS), a highly contagious fatal disease of human and pigs. Few effective antiviral drugs are currently available against VSV infection. Mx proteins are interferon (IFN)-induced dynamin-like GTPases present in all vertebrates with a range of antiviral activities. Previous studies have shown that the transfected cell lines expressing either porcine Mx1 or human MxA acquired a high degree of resistance to VSV. To explore the feasibility of taking porcine Mx1 protein expressed in Escherichia coli as an antiviral agent, we applied the pCold system to express this fusion protein (PTD-poMx1), which consisted of an N-terminal HIV-1 Tat protein transduction domain (PTD) and the full-length porcine Mx1, and investigated its effects on the replication of VSV in Vero cells. The results demonstrated that the purified PTD-poMx1 fusion proteins could transduct into cells after incubated for 5 h and had no cytotoxic. Furthermore, plaque reduction assay, determination of TCID50, real-time PCR and Western blot analyses were carried out to confirm the antiviral activity of purified fusion proteins in VSV-infected Vero cells. Altogether, these data suggested that PTD-poMx1 fusion proteins might be applicable to inhibit VSV replication as a novel antiviral therapeutic agent. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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