Poultry Science (Apr 2024)

Duck plague virus Us3 regulates the expression of pUL48

  • Tong Zhou,
  • Peilin Ruan,
  • Mingshu Wang,
  • Anchun Cheng,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Qiao Yang,
  • Xumin Ou,
  • Di Sun,
  • Yu He,
  • Zhen Wu,
  • Shaqiu Zhang,
  • Juan Huang,
  • Ying Wu,
  • Xin-Xin Zhao,
  • Yanling Yu,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Dekang Zhu,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Mafeng Liu,
  • Renyong Jia

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 103, no. 4
p. 103498

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ABSTRACT: Duck plague (DP) is one of the contagious diseases caused by Duck plague virus (DPV), which is a serious threat to the development of duck farming. Us3 is a PKA-like protein kinase in alphaherpesvirus, which can regulate the biological functions of many viral proteins, but whether Us3 regulates pUL48 protein has not been reported. In this paper, Western Blot, qRT-PCR, dual luciferase reporter system and Co-IP were used to investigate the relationship between pUL48 and Us3. The results showed that: 1) pUL48 interacted with Us3 at 138-256aa through its DBD region. 2) Us3 enhanced the protein expression of pUL48 in a dose-dependent manner. 3) Us3 promoted the mRNA level of pUL48 by activating its promoter activity. 4) Us3 inhibited the transcriptional activation function of pUL48. The results can provide scientific data for perfecting and supplementing the function of alpha herpesvirus Us3 and pUL48.

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