Baculovirus as an efficient vector for gene delivery into mosquitoes
| Autor: | Tzong-Yuan Wu, Szu-Cheng Kuo, Chang-Chi Lin, Yu-Wen Lo, Yu-Chan Chao, Nenavath Gopal Naik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
viruses 030231 tropical medicine lcsh:Medicine Gene Expression Neuraminidase Mosquito Vectors Disease Vectors Gene delivery Transfection Article Cell Line 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Chlorocebus aethiops parasitic diseases Gene expression Animals Humans Vector (molecular biology) lcsh:Science Vero Cells Gene Regulation of gene expression Multidisciplinary biology lcsh:R fungi Gene Transfer Techniques Orthomyxoviridae biology.organism_classification Virology Nucleopolyhedroviruses Autographa californica Culicidae HEK293 Cells 030104 developmental biology Larva biology.protein lcsh:Q Baculoviridae |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-018-35463-8 |
| Popis: | Efficient gene delivery technologies play an essential role in the gene functional analyses that are necessary for basic and applied researches. Mosquitoes are ubiquitous insects, responsible for transmitting many deadly arboviruses causing millions of human deaths every year. The lack of efficient and flexible gene delivery strategies in mosquitoes are among the major hurdles for the study of mosquito biology and mosquito-pathogen interactions. We found that Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV), the type baculovirus species, can efficiently transduce mosquito cells without viral propagation, allowing high level gene expression upon inducement by suitable promoters without obvious negative effects on cell propagation and viability. AcMNPV transduces into several mosquito cell types, efficiently than in commonly used mammalian cell lines and classical plasmid DNA transfection approaches. We demonstrated the application of this system by expressing influenza virus neuraminidase (NA) into mosquito hosts. Moreover, AcMNPV can transduce both larvae and adults of essentially all blood-sucking mosquito genera, resulting in bright fluorescence in insect bodies with little or no tissue barriers. Our experiments establish baculovirus as a convenient and powerful gene delivery vector in vitro and in vivo that will greatly benefit research into mosquito gene regulation, development and the study of mosquito-borne viruses. |
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