title: The Effect of MicroRNA bantam on Baculovirus AcMNPV Infection in Vitro and in Vivo.
abstract: The role of microRNA bantam, one of the most abundant microRNAs in Sf9 cells, was studied for its role in baculovirus infection in vitro and in vivo. The expression level of bantam was increased after AcMNPV infection in Sf9 cells and in Spodoptera litura larvae. In Sf9 cells, application of bantam inhibitor or mimic altered the expression of many virus genes, the most affected gene being lef8, gp41 and p10, the expression level of which was increased by 8, 10 and 40 times, respectively, in the presence of bantam inhibitor. Virus DNA replication was decreased in the presence of bantam mimic and increased in the presence of bantam inhibitor in a dose dependent manner. However, the production of budded virus did not change significantly. Feeding the larvae of S. litura and Spodoptera exigua with bantam antagomiR, a more stable form of the inhibitor, resulted in an abnormal larval growth and a decreased pupation rate. In S. litura, larvae died 3.5 days sooner than the control when bantam antagomiR was applied, together with AcMNPV. In infected S. exigua, larval mortality increased from 47% without antagomiR to 80% with it. The results suggest that microRNA bantam plays an important role in insect growth, as well as in baculovirus-insect interaction.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. xiaojie.shi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Xiaojie
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. 15110700014@fudan.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Zihan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ran
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. liss6@sustc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Sisi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. yinjuan@fudan.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China. jzhong@fudan.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000276:immunology* / Q000502:physiology*; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D007814:Larva / Q000276:immunology / Q000821:virology; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D018411:Spodoptera / Q000276:immunology* / Q000821:virology*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs
keywords: baculovirus; bantam; biopesticide; microRNA; virus-host interaction