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Fuxiang Mao1, Yajie Zhu1, Xu Gao1
1Institute of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactor and Biomedicine, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China.
Abstract:
Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus caused large amounts of silk loss annually, although it also could be used as silkworm bioreactor expression vector effectively and efficiently. Many heat shock (cognate) proteins 70 (HSP/HSC70) were induced by baculovirus and found existence in viral structure assembly. However, the concrete mechanism still need further elucidation for understanding host and virus interaction. In this study, the application of HSP/HSC70 inhibitor VER155008 is virus infectious phase-dependent for figuring out the role of intact molecular chaperone HSP/HSC70 activity in different stages of BmNPV proliferation progress. All the data had shown that HSP/HSC70 played a vital role in viral genome replication, virus protein abundance, BmNPV proliferation and budded virus production at the early infectious phase. This finding may provide new insights to unravel the interaction between baculovirus and silkworm in the initial infectious stage.
