Structural characteristics and antiviral activity of multiple peptides derived from MDV glycoproteins B and H

Virology Journal

Ming Wang¹  Xiaojing Chi¹  Xiaojia Wang¹ 

[1] Key Laboratory of Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, No. 2, Yuan Ming Yuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, PR China

关键词: viral entry mechanism;    antiviral inhibitor;    structural characteristics;    chorioallantoic membrane;    plaque formation;    glycoprotein;    Marek's disease virus;   

Others  :  1156783
DOI  :  10.1186/1743-422X-8-190

 received in 2011-01-14, accepted in 2011-04-25,  发布年份 2011

【 摘 要 】

Background

Marek's disease virus (MDV), which is widely considered to be a natural model of virus-induced lymphoma, has the potential to cause tremendous losses in the poultry industry. To investigate the structural basis of MDV membrane fusion and to identify new viral targets for inhibition, we examined the domains of the MDV glycoproteins gH and gB.

Results

Four peptides derived from the MDV glycoprotein gH (gHH1, gHH2, gHH3, and gHH5) and one peptide derived from gB (gBH1) could efficiently inhibit plaque formation in primary chicken embryo fibroblast cells (CEFs) with 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC₅₀) of below 12 μM. These peptides were also significantly able to reduce lesion formation on chorioallantoic membranes (CAMs) of infected chicken embryos at a concentration of 0.5 mM in 60 μl of solution. The HR2 peptide from Newcastle disease virus (NDVHR2) exerted effects on MDV specifically at the stage of virus entry (i.e., in a cell pre-treatment assay and an embryo co-treatment assay), suggesting cross-inhibitory effects of NDV HR2 on MDV infection. None of the peptides exhibited cytotoxic effects at the concentrations tested. Structural characteristics of the five peptides were examined further.

Conclusions

The five MDV-derived peptides demonstrated potent antiviral activity, not only in plaque formation assays in vitro, but also in lesion formation assays in vivo. The present study examining the antiviral activity of these MDV peptides, which are useful as small-molecule antiviral inhibitors, provides information about the MDV entry mechanism.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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