As a significant emerging and re-emerging pathogen in China, the widely spread of Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV) caused enormous economic losses to poultry industry. On account of DTMUV diseases' main symptoms on haemorrhagic oophoritis, intensive attentions were focused on female reproductive organ. Nevertheless, the DTMUV infection of sperm and testis manifested that testis was an important vector for vertical transmission of DTMUV. In the present study, histopathology, immunofluorescence and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis of DTMUV-infected duck testis revealed that DTMUV infection induced seminiferous epithelium injury via spermatogenic cells vacuolization. After DTMUV infection, the expression of autophagy-related genes and proteins in testis were significantly up-regulated. Further TEM analysis discovered that different stages of autophagic and mitophagy structures were visible in cytoplasm of spermatogenic cells after DTMUV infection. And more notably, the testicular protein expression of PINK1 and Parkin were significantly increased after DTMUV infection. In summary, our study discovered that, after DTMUV infection, PINK1-Parkin pathway mediated mitophagy were activated and then induced spermatogenic cells vacuolization.
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Poult Sci
January 2025
Institute of Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 225009, PR China; Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 225009, PR China. Electronic address:
As a significant emerging and re-emerging pathogen in China, the widely spread of Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV) caused enormous economic losses to poultry industry. On account of DTMUV diseases' main symptoms on haemorrhagic oophoritis, intensive attentions were focused on female reproductive organ. Nevertheless, the DTMUV infection of sperm and testis manifested that testis was an important vector for vertical transmission of DTMUV.
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November 2024
College of Animal Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), a novel positive-sense RNA virus, has caused significant economic losses in the poultry industry of Eastern and Southeast Asia since its outbreak in 2010. Furthermore, the rapid transmission and potential zoonotic nature of DTMUV pose a threat to public health safety. In this study, a 4D-DIA quantitative proteomics approach was employed to identify differentially expressed cellular proteins in DTMUV-infected DF-1 cells, which are routinely used for virus isolation and identification for DTMUV, as well as the development of vaccines against other poultry viruses.
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December 2024
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 10330; Center of Excellence for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases in Animals (CUEIDAs), Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 10330; Center of Excellence in Animal Vector-Borne Diseases, Veterinary Parasitology Unit, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 10330; Center of Excellence of Systems Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 10330. Electronic address:
Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), an emerging avian pathogenic flavivirus, is notably associated with neurological disorders and acute egg drop syndrome in ducks. We previously demonstrated that the susceptibility of ducks to DTMUV infection varies significantly with age, with younger ducks (4-week-old) exhibiting more severe disease than older ducks (27-week-old). However, the immunological mechanisms underlying these age-related differences in disease severity remain unclear.
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September 2024
Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 50 Zhongling Street, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, 210014, PR China.
The outbreak and prevalence of tembusu virus (TMUV) endanger the breeding industry of waterfowls. However, little is known about the molecular mechanism underlying TMUV infection. It was reported that heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) was a positive regulator of the infection of TMUV.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Animal Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Engineering Research Center of Veterinary Biologics, Nanning, 530004, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Animal Breeding, Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, 530004, China. Electronic address:
Tembusu virus (TMUV) is a significant pathogen that poses a considerable threat to the waterfowl farming industry in China and is classified into three distinct genetic clusters. In 2024, a suspected outbreak of TMUV infection was reported at a goose farm in Guangdong Province, China. A strain of TMUV, designated GDE19-2024, was successfully isolated using chicken embryos.
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