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

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 promot...

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Main Authors: Zhiqiang Hu, Yuhong Pan, Anchun Cheng, Xingcui Zhang, Mingshu Wang, Shun Chen, Dekang Zhu, Mafeng Liu, Qiao Yang, Ying Wu, Xinxin Zhao, Juan Huang, Shaqiu Zhang, Sai Mao, Xumin Ou, Yanling Yu, Ling Zhang, Yunya Liu, Bin Tian, Leichang Pan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Zhongqiong Yin, Renyong Jia
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00155/full
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Dekang Zhu
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Mafeng Liu
Mafeng Liu
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Mujeeb Ur Rehman
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Zhongqiong Yin
Renyong Jia
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Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
DTMUV
autophagy
spleen
brain
tissue damage
replication
author_facet Zhiqiang Hu
Zhiqiang Hu
Zhiqiang Hu
Yuhong Pan
Yuhong Pan
Yuhong Pan
Anchun Cheng
Anchun Cheng
Anchun Cheng
Xingcui Zhang
Xingcui Zhang
Xingcui Zhang
Mingshu Wang
Mingshu Wang
Mingshu Wang
Shun Chen
Shun Chen
Shun Chen
Dekang Zhu
Dekang Zhu
Dekang Zhu
Mafeng Liu
Mafeng Liu
Mafeng Liu
Qiao Yang
Qiao Yang
Qiao Yang
Ying Wu
Ying Wu
Ying Wu
Xinxin Zhao
Xinxin Zhao
Xinxin Zhao
Juan Huang
Juan Huang
Juan Huang
Shaqiu Zhang
Shaqiu Zhang
Shaqiu Zhang
Sai Mao
Sai Mao
Sai Mao
Xumin Ou
Xumin Ou
Xumin Ou
Yanling Yu
Yanling Yu
Yanling Yu
Ling Zhang
Ling Zhang
Ling Zhang
Yunya Liu
Yunya Liu
Yunya Liu
Bin Tian
Bin Tian
Bin Tian
Leichang Pan
Leichang Pan
Leichang Pan
Mujeeb Ur Rehman
Mujeeb Ur Rehman
Mujeeb Ur Rehman
Zhongqiong Yin
Renyong Jia
Renyong Jia
Renyong Jia
author_sort Zhiqiang Hu
title Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
title_short Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
title_full Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
title_fullStr Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
title_full_unstemmed Autophagy Is a Potential Therapeutic Target Against Duck Tembusu Virus Infection in vivo
title_sort autophagy is a potential therapeutic target against duck tembusu virus infection in vivo
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
issn 2235-2988
publishDate 2020-04-01
description 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.
topic DTMUV
autophagy
spleen
brain
tissue damage
replication
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00155/full
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Rehman60Mujeeb Ur Rehman61Mujeeb Ur Rehman62Zhongqiong Yin63Renyong Jia64Renyong Jia65Renyong Jia66Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaInstitute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaAvian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, ChinaDuck 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00155/fullDTMUVautophagyspleenbraintissue damagereplication