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. 2023 Feb 3;54:9. doi: 10.1186/s13567-023-01139-z

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Small interfering RNA-mediated silence of chop gene reduced cellular ROS levels and viral replication in PEDV-infected Vero E6 cells. Vero E6 cells were first transfected with chop-specific siRNA (siCHOP) or with scrambled RNA as control (siNC). After 6 h of transfection, the cells were infected with PEDV (MOI = 0.001) for 36 h. A The effects of CHOP inhibition on ERO1α, and PEDV N expression were shown by Western blotting with β-actin used as loading control. B Ratios of CHOP to β-actin. C Ratios of ERO1α to β-actin. D Ratios of N to β-actin. E Cells collected at 36 hpi were measured for changes in cytosolic ROS level by flow cytometry after incubation with 10 μM DCFH-DA for 30 min at 37 °C. F The changes in cytosolic ROS levels were evaluated according to the mean value of DCFH-DA fluorescence intensity and expressed as fold changes between mock- and treated-cells. The effects of ERO1α inhibition by shRNA on viral replication, shown as viral RNA copy numbers measured by RT-qPCR (G) and virus titer (H). The bar charts in B to D, F to H represent mean ± SD of three independent experiments. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01.