Proteomics Analysis of Porcine Kidney Cell Lines LLC-PK1 and PK15 with
Different PEDV Infectivity
Abstract
The screening and identification of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
(PEDV) host restriction factors are of great significance for the
prevention, control and treatment of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED),
but due to the lack of a suitable research platform, this field has been
progressing slowly. In this study, label-free liquid
chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used to
quantitatively identify the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs)
between porcine kidney cell lines LLC-PK1 and PK15, whose susceptibility
to PEDV was distinct. We identified 118 and 69 specific expressed
proteins (fold changes >20 and with p < 0.05) in
LLC-PK1 and PK15 cells, respectively. In addition, another 1138 DEPs,
including 652 upregulated and 486 downregulated proteins, were
identified in LLC-PK1 cells. Alterations in the expression of selected
proteins were verified by western blot. Bioinformatics analyses,
including GO, KEGG, and STRING, further demonstrated that the DEPs are
involved in numerous crucial biological processes and signaling
pathways, such as organelle organization, nucleotide binding, phagosome,
lysosome, focal adhesion pathways and metabolic pathways. Altogether,
this is the first proteomic study of porcine cell lines with high
homology but different infectivity to PEDV, which shall provide valuable
clues for further investigation of PEDV pathogenesis.