OPTIMIZATION OF EXPRESSION CONDITIONS OF GENE ENCODING ANTIGEN M OF PRRSV IN LEAVES OF NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA BY AGROINFILTRATION METHOD

Abstract

Reproductive disorders and respiratory swine (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome - PRRS) is an infectious disease caused by the PRRS virus (PRRSV), spread fast speeds, causing mass death when infected pigs. M protein is one of the major structural protein of the PRRSV, has a molecular weight of about 19 kDa, encoded by the open reading frame 6 (ORF6), which is used to design a subunit vaccine against back PRRSV. In this study, conditions for transient expression of the gene encoded the M protein of PRRSV in leaves of the Nicotiana benthamiana by agroinfiltration method were determined. The results show that optimal conditions for transient expression of protein M in the leaf are used the simultaneous of the A. tumefaciens strain containing vector carrying the gene encoding the protein M and A. tumefaciens containing vector carrying gene encoding supported protein HC-Pro PVY, concentration of acetosyringone with 450 µM, the bacterial cell density used to infect into leaf with OD₆₀₀ is 0.5, The physiological age of the leaf suitable for infecting bacteria was young leaf and mature leaf of tobacco plants 4 to 6 weeks of age, and the transient expression time of gene encoding protein M of PRRSV in tobacco leaves is most effective 6 days after infecting. This agroinfiltration method can be used to express large amounts of protein - antigen M of PRRSV in tobacco plants to produce vaccines against this virus.