Evolutionarily conserved pattern recognition receptors, including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) that are present in microbes. PAMPs induce several pathways downstream of TLRs that lead to induction of antiviral responses. The objective of this study was to investigate the stimulatory effect of various PAMPs (in the form of TLR ligands) in reducing Marek's disease virus (MDV) infection in chicken embryo fibroblast cells (CEFs). To this end, CEFs were pretreated with Pam3CSK4, Poly(IC), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and CpG ODN as TLR2, TLR3, TLR4, and TLR21 ligands, respectively for 24 h followed by infection with MDV. The results indicated that pretreatment with Poly(IC) resulted in a robust reduction (by about 81%) of MDV infection in CEFs at 96 h postinfection while a moderate reduction was observed with treatment of Pam3CSK4 (35%), LPS (26%), and CpG ODN (23%) PAMPs. Transcriptional analysis of gene expression in CEFs demonstrated that all TLR ligand treatments and MDV infection significantly increased the expression of type I interferons, interleukin (IL)-1β, interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7), interferon induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 5 (IFIT5), and myxoma-resistance protein (Mx). Further studies are needed to explore the mechanism by which PAMPs, particularly the TLR3 ligands could reduce MDV infection in CEFs, which may play an important role in controlling the replication of MDV in chicken.
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