【Animal modeling】-The establishment of CA16-infected tree shrew lung fibroblast model and the expression of its receptor SCARB2

  Objective: To explore the feasibility of establishing an experimental model of CA16-infected tree shrew lung fibroblasts.

  Methods: Enterovirus CA16 was used to infect TSLF, and human lung fibroblasts (KMB-17) were used as control. The viral load was detected by real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR with needle method, the relative expression of the receptor SCARB2 gene was detected by real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR with β-Actin as an internal reference dye, and its correlation with infection was analyzed combined with gene sequence comparison.

  RESULTS: CA16 infection of TSLF could cause obvious cytopathic changes. Immunofluorescence experiments showed that the virus and receptor SCARB2 protein were infected with TSLF at a ratio of 100TCID50/105cells, and the viral load reached the highest at about 48h. expression, and its gene sequence also has high homology with human.

  Conclusion: CA16 can infect TSLF, and tree shrew SCARB2 can be involved in the infection.