Summary. -Innate immunity, especially the anti-viral genes, exerts an important barrier function in preventing viral infections. Myxovirus-resistant (Mx) gene take an anti-viral role, whereas its eff ects on foot-andmouth disease virus (FMDV) in naturally susceptible cells are still unclear. Th e bovine primary fetal tracheal epithelial cell line BPTE-siMx1, in which bovine Mx1 gene was silenced, was established and treated with IFN alpha for 6 hr before FMDV infection. Th e copy numbers of the negative and positive strand viral RNA were determined by strand-specifi c real-time fl uorescence quantitative RT-PCR. Th e TCID 50 of BPTE-siMx1 cells increased at least 17-fold as compared to control cells BPTE-LacZ at 8 hr post infection, thus silencing of bovine Mx1 could promote the replication of FMDV. Th e amount of both the negative and positive strand viral RNA in BPTE-siMx1 cells signifi cantly increased as compared to BPTE-LacZ cells, indicating that the replication levels of viral RNA were promoted by silencing bovine Mx1. Th e bovine Mx1 gene could provide resistance against FMDV in the bovine primary fetal tracheal epithelial cells via suppressing the replication of viral RNA.Keywords: bovine Mx1 gene; foot-and-mouth disease virus; bovine primary fetal tracheal epithelial cell; anti-viral eff ects 1 *Corresponding authors: E-mail: xiaxianzhu@gmail.com, huguixue901103@163.com, hongbinh@hotmail.com; phone: 0086-431-8698-5516, 0086-431-8453-3482, 0086-531-88679268 Abbreviations: FMD = foot-and-mouth disease; FMDV = FMDvirus; IFN = interferon; Mx = myxovirus-resistant; OIE = Offi ce International des Epizooties; RNP = ribonucleoprotein; ssqRT-PCR = strand-specifi c real-time fl uorescence quantitative RT-PCR; TCID 50 = 50% tissue culture infective dose
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