Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Yanling Yu¹  Ying Wu¹  Qiao Yang¹  Yunya Liu¹  Dekang Zhu¹  Mafeng Liu¹  Juan Huang¹  Shaqiu Zhang¹  Xumin Ou¹  Zhiqiang Hu¹  Renyong Jia¹  Ling Zhang¹  Leichang Pan¹  Shun Chen¹  Xinxin Zhao¹  Sai Mao¹  Mingshu Wang¹  Yuhong Pan¹  Anchun Cheng¹  Bin Tian¹  Xingcui Zhang¹  Mujeeb Ur Rehman¹  Zhongqiong Yin² 

[1] Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, China;Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, China;Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, China;Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, China;

关键词: DTMUV;    autophagy;    spleen;    brain;    tissue damage;    replication;    immune response;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcimb.2020.00155

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Duck tembusu virus (DTMUV) is newly emerged in poultry and causes great losses to the breeding industry in China and neighboring countries. Effective antiviral strategies are still being studied. Autophagy is a cellular degradative pathway, and our lab's previous data show that autophagy promotes DTMUV replication in vitro. To study the role of autophagy further in vivo, we utilized ducks as the animal model to investigate the autophagy responses in DTMUV-targeted tissues. And also, we utilized autophagy regulators, including Rapamycin (Rapa) as the autophagy enhancer, 3-Methyladenine (3-MA) and Chloroquine (CQ) as the autophagy inhibitors, to adjust the host autophagic levels and then study the effects of autophagy on tissue damages and virus replication. As a result, we first found DTMUV infection trigged autophagy and autophagy regulator treatments regulated autophagy levels successfully in duck spleens and brains. Next, we found that autophagy inhibitors inhibited DTMUV replication and alleviated DTMUV-induced pathological symptoms, whereas the autophagy inducer treatment led to the opposite effects. And we also found that autophagic regulation was correlated with the expression of innate immune genes, including pattern recognition receptors, type I interferons, and cytokines, and caused different effects in different tissues. In summary, we demonstrated that autophagy facilitated DTMUV replication, aggravated the developments of pathological symptoms and possibly counteracts the host's innate immunity response in vivo.

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