The invention relates to the technical field of
biomedicine, in particular to a novel target spot for resisting
chikungunya virus infection and application. According to the invention, human
neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) and
human brain astroblastoma cells (U87) are taken as target cells, and the expression of the target
cell part capable of exerting
receptor action
membrane protein is down-regulated by adopting an
RNA interference technology, so that a
host factor capable of effectively inhibiting CHIKV infection of human
nerve cells is found, and the purpose of blocking CHIKV infection from the source is achieved. The invention discovers that the nerve cilia
protein 2 (NRP2) plays an important role in CHIKV infection SH-SY5Y and U87 cells, and the CHIKV infection can be obviously inhibited by down-regulating the expression of the NRP2. The invention provides an application of NRP2 in preparation of a
medicine for preventing or treating
chikungunya virus infection, and provides a new target spot and a treatment scheme for clinically preventing and treating fever, arthralgia, arthrocele, muscular pain, headache,
nausea, fatigue,
rash and other diseases caused by CHIKV infection.