猪瘟病毒感染猪白细胞凋亡基因表达谱变化的研究

为了了解CSFV感染引起猪细胞凋亡的分子机制,利用基因芯片分析了猪感染CSFV前后基因组转录水平的变化。分离攻毒前和攻毒后猪外周血白细胞(Peripheral blood leucocyte,PBL),提取总RNA,经反转录和体外转录得到cRNA,与Affymetrix猪全基因组cDNA芯片进行杂交分析,筛选差异表达的凋亡基因。结果显示,感染猪的PBLs中共筛选到24个涉及细胞凋亡有关基因发生2倍以上变化,并对差异表达的12个宿主细胞凋亡相关基因,用荧光定量RT-PCR进行了验证。功能分析显示,这些凋亡基因的表达变化与CSFV诱导宿主细胞凋亡的机制有关。本文首次用猪全基因组芯片研究了CSFV感染诱导宿主基因的表达变化,建立了CSFV感染猪细胞凋亡相关基因的表达谱,初步阐释了CSFV感染诱导宿主细胞凋亡的分子机制。

Expression Profiles of Apoptotic Genes of Pig Peripheral Blood Leukocytes Caused by Classical Swine Fever Virus Infection

Classical swine fever(CSF) is a contagious swine disease charactered by hemorrhagic fever and leukopenia,usually leading to substantial economic losses.To obtain a insight of leucopenia caused by CSFV infection,DNA microarray analyses of peripheral blood leucocytes(PBL) of the infected pigs was performed.Three health pigs were inoculated with a lethal dose of CSFV Shimen strain and their PBLs were isolated when the onset of typical clinical signs and then subjected to total RNA extraction followed by microarray analysis with Affymetrix Porcine Genome Array GeneChips.The results showed that the significant differences were observed in cellular apoptotic genes expression at 7 days post-infection(p.i.).The changes of the genes expression were confirmed by real time RT-PCR of some selected apoptosis-related genes.This study provided a valuable information for further investigating the molecular mechanism of apoptosis caused by CSFV infection.