Four H5 HPAIV strains including A/chicken/Anhui/QD1/2014 [QD/1 (H5N1)], A/goose/Jiangsu/QD5/2014 [QD/5 (H5N8)] (Li et al., 2016), A/chicken/Jiangsu/YB7/2015 [YB/7 (H5N1)] and A/Chicken/Jiangsu/k0402/2010 [CK/10 (H5N1)] (Hu et al., 2013), and one genotype S H9N2 virus A/Chicken/Jiangsu/CZ73/2014 [CZ/73 (H9N2)] were used in this study. QD/1 and QD/5 belong to subclade 2.3.4.4 while YB/7 and CK/10 belong to subclade 2.3.2.1c. The viruses propagated in 9- to 10-day-old specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chicken embryos.
Chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), and chicken fibroblast cell line (DF-1) cells were cultured in DMEM (Invitrogen) medium with 4% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Gibco). Madin-darby canine kidney (MDCK), and human embryonic kidney (293T) cells were grown in DMEM containing 10% FBS. All cells were incubated at 37°C with 5% CO2. For virus inoculation experiments, DMEM medium supplemented with 1% FBS was used.
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