Title
Glycoprotein G (gG) production profile during infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) infection
Date Issued
01 August 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo—FARVET
Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo—FARVET
Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo—FARVET
Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo—FARVET
Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo—FARVET
Publisher(s)
Public Library of Science
Abstract
Glycoprotein G (gG) is a conserved protein, and it has been described as a chemokine-binding protein in most members of the alphaherpesviruses. In case of the infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), an alphaherpesvirus that infects chickens, this protein is a virulence factor that plays an immunomodulatory role in the chicken immune response. Nevertheless, the gG production profile during ILTV infection has not yet been studied. In this study, we developed monoclonal antibodies in order to determine the gG production profile during ILTV infection in chicken hepatocellular carcinoma (LMH) cell cultures as well as embryonated specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chicken eggs and SPF chickens using a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Despite the fact that inoculated LMH cell cultures showed an increase in both gG production and viral genome copy number up to 96 h after inoculation, we observed that gG production started earlier than the increase in viral genome copy number in ILTV infected embryonated SPF chicken eggs. Likewise, a gG production peak and an increase of viral genome copy number was observed prior to the appearance of clinical signs in infected SPF chickens. According to the production profiles, gG was also produced quite early in eggs and chickens inoculated with ILTV. These findings contribute to the knowledge of the gG role during the ILTV infection as a virulence factor.
Volume
14
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otorrinolaringología
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85070894525
PubMed ID
Source
PLoS ONE
Sponsor(s)
his study was co-financially supported by Programa Nacional de Innovación Agraria (PNIA) of the Peruvian Government and Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo - FARVET under the contract 021-2015-INIA-PNIA/ UPMSI/IE. JB, SMR and MFD were granted by the Programa Nacional de Innovación Agraria (PNIA). These funders supported salaries for JB, SMR, RM, RCG and KPA and supplied materials for the study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the’author contributions’ section. We thank Dr. Adriana Paredes, Dr. Miguel Marzal and PhC. Luz Choque Moreau for their support with the hybridoma cultures. We also thank Juana Quispe for her support during the early set-up of insect cell cultures in bioreactors as well as Edison Huaccachi and Ángela Mon-talván for their outstanding technical support. We thank PhD. Mauricio J. C. Coppo for his critical and constructive recommendations to the manuscript.
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