家蚕二分浓核病毒在家蚕细胞中的体外拯救

Rescuing Bombyx mori bidensovirus in BmN cells in vitro

摘要:

家蚕二分浓核病毒 (Bombyx mori bidensovirus, BmBDV) 是特异性感染家蚕中肠引起慢性浓核病症的致病原，基因组含有2套单链DNA分子 (VD1和VD2)，复制机制尚不清楚。为了能够在体外拯救出有感染性的病毒粒子，构建了BmBDV的基因组全长的克隆质粒pMD18T-VD1和pUC-VD2，并通过酶切构建的克隆质粒来获得双链的基因组片段VD1和VD2，利用脂质体包埋的方法，线性化共转染BmN细胞。提取转染后的BmN细胞总DNA，经去甲基化处理后，通过PCR检测到病毒基因的复制；提取转染后的BmN细胞和添食回感的家蚕中肠的总蛋白，分别进行蛋白质印记杂交检测，检测到病毒基因的表达。由此首次表明，该病毒线性化的基因组片段通过共转染BmN细胞的方法，可以在体外条件下拯救出具有感染性的病毒粒子。

Abstract:

Bombyx mori bidensovirus (BmBDV) has been identified as causing chronic densonucleosis in Bombyx mori specifically. The replication mechanism of BmBDV remains unknown. Its genome comprises two single stands DNA (VD1 and VD2). In order to rescue infectious virions in vitro, we obtained the total viral DNA extracted from the BmBDV-infected larvae midguts, subsequently cloned the full-length sequence of BmBDV genome fragments by PCR and constructed recombinant plasmids pMD18T-VD1 and pUC-VD2. The linear genome fragments were obtained by digesting recombinant plasmids with corresponding restriction enzymes, and then collectively transfected BmN cells by the method of liposome-embedding. We determined the replication of the virus gene by PCR with the template of demethylated total DNA extracted from the post-transfect BmN cells. Meanwhile, we collected the total proteins from the post-transfect BmN cells and the larvae midgut of feeding the post-transfect BmN cells to perform Western blotting analysis, and detected the expression of viral genes. Here we firstly confirm that infectious virions can be rescued in BmN cells by linear co-transfect method.