Porcine deltacoronavirus uses heparan sulfate as an attachment receptor.
Veterinary microbiology(2022)
Abstract
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a newly emerging swine enteropathogenic coronavirus with extensive tissue tropism and cross-species transmission potential. Heparan sulfate (HS) is a complex polysaccharide ubiquitously expressed on cell surfaces and the extracellular matrix and acts as an attachment factor for many viruses. However, whether PDCoV uses HS as an attachment receptor is unclear. In this study, we found that treatment with heparin sodium or heparinase Ⅱ significantly inhibited PDCoV binding and infection among LLC-PK1 and IPI-2I cells. Attenuation of HS sulfuration by sodium chlorate also impeded PDCoV binding and infection. Moreover, we demonstrated that HS functioned independently of amino peptidase N (APN), a functional PDCoV receptor, in PDCoV infection. Molecular docking revealed that the S1 subunit of the PDCoV spike protein might be a putative region for HS binding. Taken together, these results firstly confirmed that HS is an attachment receptor for PDCoV infection, providing new insight into better understanding the mechanisms of PDCoV-host interactions.
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