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Hu L, Tang D, Qi B, Guo D, Wang Y, Geng J, Zhang X, Song L, Chang P, Chen W, Fu F, Li Y. Mfn2/Hsc70 Complex Mediates the Formation of Mitochondria-Lipid Droplets Membrane Contact and Regulates Myocardial Lipid Metabolism. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2307749. [PMID: 38311582 PMCID: PMC11005711 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202307749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/06/2024]
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The heart primarily derives its energy through lipid oxidation. In cardiomyocytes, lipids are stored in lipid droplets (LDs) and are utilized in mitochondria, although the structural and functional connections between these two organelles remain largely unknown. In this study, visible evidence have presented indicating that a complex is formed at the mitochondria-LD membrane contact (MLC) site, involving mitochondrion-localized Mfn2 and LD-localized Hsc70. This complex serves to tether mitochondria to LDs, facilitating the transfer of fatty acids (FAs) from LDs to mitochondria for β-oxidation. Reduction of Mfn2 induced by lipid overload inhibits MLC, hinders FA transfer, and results in lipid accumulation. Restoring Mfn2 reinstates MLC, alleviating myocardial lipotoxicity under lipid overload conditions both in-vivo and in-vitro. Additionally, prolonged lipid overload induces Mfn2 degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, following Mfn2 acetylation at the K243 site. This leads to the transition from adaptive lipid utilization to maladaptive lipotoxicity. The experimental findings are supported by clinical data from patients with obesity and age-matched non-obese individuals. These translational results make a significant contribution to the molecular understanding of MLC in the heart, and offer new insights into its role in myocardial lipotoxicity.
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- Lang Hu
- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Digestive System DepartmentShaanxi Provincial Crops Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police ForceXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of RespirologyXijing HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyThe Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical CollegeXi'an710032China
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- Department of Cardiovascular SurgeryXi'an Gaoxin HospitalXi'an710032China
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- Department of Physiology and PathophysiologyAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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- Department of CardiologyTangdu HospitalAirforce Medical UniversityXi'an710032China
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Chen N, Bai T, Wang S, Wang H, Wu Y, Liu Y, Zhu Z. New Insights into the Role and Therapeutic Potential of Heat Shock Protein 70 in Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Infection. Microorganisms 2023; 11:1473. [PMID: 37374975 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11061473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a positive-strand RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus in the Flaviviridae family, is the causative agent of bovine viral diarrhea-mucosal disease (BVD-MD). BVDV's unique virion structure, genome, and replication mechanism in the Flaviviridae family render it a useful alternative model for evaluating the effectiveness of antiviral drugs used against the hepatitis C virus (HCV). As one of the most abundant and typical heat shock proteins, HSP70 plays an important role in viral infection caused by the family Flaviviridae and is considered a logical target of viral regulation in the context of immune escape. However, the mechanism of HSP70 in BVDV infection and the latest insights have not been reported in sufficient detail. In this review, we focus on the role and mechanisms of HSP70 in BVDV-infected animals/cells to further explore the possibility of targeting this protein for antiviral therapy during viral infection.
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- Nannan Chen
- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
- Branch of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qiqihar 161006, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
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- Branch of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qiqihar 161006, China
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- Branch of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qiqihar 161006, China
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- Branch of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qiqihar 161006, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
- Key Laboratory of Bovine Disease Control in Northeast China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Daqing 163319, China
- Engineering Research Center for Prevention and Control of Cattle Diseases, Daqing 163319, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
- Key Laboratory of Bovine Disease Control in Northeast China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Daqing 163319, China
- Engineering Research Center for Prevention and Control of Cattle Diseases, Daqing 163319, China
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Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a kind of proteins which mostly found in bacterial, plant and animal cells, in which they are involved in the monitoring and regulation of cellular life activities. HSPs protect other proteins under environmental and cellular stress by regulating protein folding and supporting the correctly folded structure of proteins as chaperones. During viral infection, some HSPs can have an antiviral effect by inhibiting viral proliferation through interaction and activating immune pathways to protect the host cell. However, although the biological function of HSPs is to maintain the homeostasis of cells, some HSPs will also be hijacked by viruses to help their invasion, replication, and maturation, thereby increasing the chances of viral survival in unfavorable conditions inside the host cell. In this review, we summarize the roles of the heat shock protein family in various stages of viral infection and the potential uses of these proteins in antiviral therapy.
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- Xizhen Zhang
- Institute of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactor and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Silkworm Bioreactor and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Wei Yu,
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Li Y, Zhang J, Sun H, Yu X, Chen Y, Ma C, Zheng X, Zhang L, Zhao X, Jiang Y, Xin W, Wang S, Hu J, Wang M, Zhu D. RPS4XL encoded by lnc-Rps4l inhibits hypoxia-induced pyroptosis by binding HSC70 glycosylation site. MOLECULAR THERAPY - NUCLEIC ACIDS 2022; 28:920-934. [PMID: 35757299 PMCID: PMC9185019 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2022.05.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Wang XR, Shao Y, Wang C, Liu YQ. Effects of heat stress on virus transmission and virus-mediated apoptosis in whitefly Bemisia tabaci. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 110:e21857. [PMID: 34859483 DOI: 10.1002/arch.21857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), a plant DNA virus of the genus Begomovirus, is transmitted by whiteflies of the Bemisia tabaci species complex in a persistent manner. Our previous study indicated that activation of the apoptosis pathway in whiteflies could facilitate TYLCV accumulation and transmission. Considering that temperature change can influence the spread of insect-borne plant viruses, we focused on plant virus induced-apoptosis to investigate the underlying mechanism of temperature regulation on plant virus transmission via an insect vector. We found that heat stress (40°C) on whiteflies could facilitate TYLCV accumulation and increase transmission to tomato plants. Despite upregulation of caspase-1 and caspase-3 gene expression, heat stress failed to induce an increase in the activation of cleaved caspase-3 and DNA fragmentation in TYLCV-infected whiteflies. However, our data failed to determine the role of heat stress in apoptosis modulation of insect-plant virus interplay while still providing clues to understand insect vectors and their transmitted plant viruses.
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- Xin-Ru Wang
- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects; Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects of Zhejiang Province; Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects; Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects of Zhejiang Province; Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- The Plant Protection and Soil Fertilizer Management Station of Wenzhou, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects; Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects of Zhejiang Province; Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects; Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects of Zhejiang Province; Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Dai G, Han K, Huang X, Zhang L, Liu Q, Yang J, Liu Y, Li Y, Zhao D. Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) plays important role in tembusu virus infection. Vet Microbiol 2022; 267:109377. [DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2022.109377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2021] [Revised: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Targeting the Virus Capsid as a Tool to Fight RNA Viruses. Viruses 2022; 14:v14020174. [PMID: 35215767 PMCID: PMC8879806 DOI: 10.3390/v14020174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Several strategies have been developed to fight viral infections, not only in humans but also in animals and plants. Some of them are based on the development of efficient vaccines, to target the virus by developed antibodies, others focus on finding antiviral compounds with activities that inhibit selected virus replication steps. Currently, there is an increasing number of antiviral drugs on the market; however, some have unpleasant side effects, are toxic to cells, or the viruses quickly develop resistance to them. As the current situation shows, the combination of multiple antiviral strategies or the combination of the use of various compounds within one strategy is very important. The most desirable are combinations of drugs that inhibit different steps in the virus life cycle. This is an important issue especially for RNA viruses, which replicate their genomes using error-prone RNA polymerases and rapidly develop mutants resistant to applied antiviral compounds. Here, we focus on compounds targeting viral structural capsid proteins, thereby inhibiting virus assembly or disassembly, virus binding to cellular receptors, or acting by inhibiting other virus replication mechanisms. This review is an update of existing papers on a similar topic, by focusing on the most recent advances in the rapidly evolving research of compounds targeting capsid proteins of RNA viruses.
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Li C, Shi L, Gao Y, Lu Y, Ye J, Liu X. HSC70 Inhibits Spring Viremia of Carp Virus Replication by Inducing MARCH8-Mediated Lysosomal Degradation of G Protein. Front Immunol 2021; 12:724403. [PMID: 34659210 PMCID: PMC8511485 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.724403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As a fierce pathogen, spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV) can cause high mortality in the common carp, and its glycoprotein (G protein) is a component of the viral structure on the surface of virion, which is crucial in viral life cycle. This report adopted tandem affinity purification (TAP), mass spectrometry analysis (LC-MS/MS), immunoprecipitation, and confocal microscopy assays to identify Heat shock cognate protein 70 (HSC70) as an interaction partner of SVCV G protein. It was found that HSC70 overexpression dramatically inhibited SVCV replication, whereas its loss of functions elicited opposing effects on SVCV replication. Mechanistic studies indicate that HSC70 induces lysosomal degradation of ubiquitinated-SVCV G protein. This study further demonstrates that Membrane-associated RING-CH 8 (MARCH8), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, is critical for SVCV G protein ubiquitylation and leads to its lysosomal degradation. Furthermore, the MARCH8 mediated ubiquitylation of SVCV G protein required the participation of HSC70 through forming a multicomponent complex. Taken together, these results demonstrate that HSC70 serves as a scaffold for MARCH8 and SVCV G, which leads to the ubiquitylation and degradation of SVCV G protein and thus inhibits viral replication. These findings have established a novel host defense mechanism against SVCV.
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- Chen Li
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center for Aquatic Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China
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Li HC, Yang CH, Lo SY. Cellular factors involved in the hepatitis C virus life cycle. World J Gastroenterol 2021; 27:4555-4581. [PMID: 34366623 PMCID: PMC8326260 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i28.4555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The hepatitis C virus (HCV), an obligatory intracellular pathogen, highly depends on its host cells to propagate successfully. The HCV life cycle can be simply divided into several stages including viral entry, protein translation, RNA replication, viral assembly and release. Hundreds of cellular factors involved in the HCV life cycle have been identified over more than thirty years of research. Characterization of these cellular factors has provided extensive insight into HCV replication strategies. Some of these cellular factors are targets for anti-HCV therapies. In this review, we summarize the well-characterized and recently identified cellular factors functioning at each stage of the HCV life cycle.
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- Hui-Chun Li
- Department of Biochemistry, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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Chen DZ, Fan SR, Yang BJ, Yao HC, Wang YT, Cai JY, Jing CX, Pan ZH, Luo M, Yuze YQ, Liu GJ, Hao XJ. Phenanthridine Derivative Host Heat Shock Cognate 70 Down-Regulators as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Inhibitors. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 84:1175-1184. [PMID: 33760626 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c01252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) has become increasingly problematic around the world, not only for its hazards to livestock but also due to the possibility that it is a zoonotic disease. Although vaccine therapy has made some progress toward PEDV control, additional effective therapeutic strategies against PEDV are needed, such as the development of chemotherapeutic agents. The aim of this work was to identify novel anti-PEDV agents by designing and synthesizing a series of phenanthridine derivatives. Among them, three compounds (compounds 1, 2, and 4) were identified as potent anti-PEDV agents exhibiting suppression of host cell heat shock cognate 70 (Hsc70) expression. Mechanism studies revealed that host Hsc70 is involved in the replication of PEDV, and its expression can be suppressed by destabilization of the mRNA, resulting in inhibition of PEDV replication. Activity against PEDV in vivo in PEDV-infected piglets suggested that phenanthridine derivatives are the first host-acting potential anti-PEDV agents.
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- Duo-Zhi Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, People's Republic of China
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Shimotohno K. HCV Assembly and Egress via Modifications in Host Lipid Metabolic Systems. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2021; 11:cshperspect.a036814. [PMID: 32122916 PMCID: PMC7778218 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a036814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) proliferates by hijacking the host lipid machinery. In vitro replication systems revealed many aspects of the virus life cycle; in particular, viral utilization of host lipid metabolism during HCV proliferation. HCV interacts with lipid droplets (LDs) before starting the process of virus capsid formation at the lipid-rich endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane compartment. HCV buds into the ER via lipoprotein assembly and secretion. Exchangeable apolipoproteins, represented by apolipoprotein E (apoE), play pivotal roles in enhancing HCV-specific infectivity. HCV virions are likely to interact with other lipoproteins circulating in blood vessels and incorporate apolipoproteins as well as lipids. This review focuses on virus assembly and egress by briefly describing the recent advances in this area.
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Wang Z, Li Y, Yang X, Zhao J, Cheng Y, Wang J. Mechanism and Complex Roles of HSC70 in Viral Infections. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1577. [PMID: 32849328 PMCID: PMC7396710 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Heat shock cognate 71-kDa protein (HSC70), a constitutively expressed molecular chaperon within the heat shock protein 70 family, plays crucial roles in maintaining cellular environmental homeostasis through implicating in a wide variety of physiological processes, such as ATP metabolism, protein folding and transporting, antigen processing and presentation, endocytosis, and autophagy. Notably, HSC70 also participates in multiple non-communicable diseases and some pathogen-caused infectious diseases. It is known that virus is an obligatory intracellular parasite and heavily relies on host machineries to self-replication. Undoubtedly, HSC70 is a striking target manipulated by virus to ensure the successful propagation. In this review, we summarize the recent advances of the regulatory mechanisms of HSC70 during viral infections, which will be conducive to further study viral pathogenesis.
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- Zeng Wang
- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China.,Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States
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Aviner R, Frydman J. Proteostasis in Viral Infection: Unfolding the Complex Virus-Chaperone Interplay. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2020; 12:cshperspect.a034090. [PMID: 30858229 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a034090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that rely on their hosts for protein synthesis, genome replication, and viral particle production. As such, they have evolved mechanisms to divert host resources, including molecular chaperones, facilitate folding and assembly of viral proteins, stabilize complex structures under constant mutational pressure, and modulate signaling pathways to dampen antiviral responses and prevent premature host death. Biogenesis of viral proteins often presents unique challenges to the proteostasis network, as it requires the rapid and orchestrated production of high levels of a limited number of multifunctional, multidomain, and aggregation-prone proteins. To overcome such challenges, viruses interact with the folding machinery not only as clients but also as regulators of chaperone expression, function, and subcellular localization. In this review, we summarize the main types of interactions between viral proteins and chaperones during infection, examine evolutionary aspects of this relationship, and discuss the potential of using chaperone inhibitors as broad-spectrum antivirals.
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- Ranen Aviner
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.,Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Ji X, Li Z. Medicinal chemistry strategies toward host targeting antiviral agents. Med Res Rev 2020; 40:1519-1557. [PMID: 32060956 PMCID: PMC7228277 DOI: 10.1002/med.21664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Direct‐acting antiviral agents (DAAs) represent a class of drugs targeting viral proteins and have been demonstrated to be very successful in combating viral infections in clinic. However, DAAs suffer from several inherent limitations, including narrow‐spectrum antiviral profiles and liability to drug resistance, and hence there are still unmet needs in the treatment of viral infections. In comparison, host targeting antivirals (HTAs) target host factors for antiviral treatment. Since host proteins are probably broadly required for various viral infections, HTAs are not only perceived, but also demonstrated to exhibit broad‐spectrum antiviral activities. In addition, host proteins are not under the genetic control of viral genome, and hence HTAs possess much higher genetic barrier to drug resistance as compared with DAAs. In recent years, much progress has been made to the development of HTAs with the approval of chemokine receptor type 5 antagonist maraviroc for human immunodeficiency virus treatment and more in the pipeline for other viral infections. In this review, we summarize various host proteins as antiviral targets from a medicinal chemistry prospective. Challenges and issues associated with HTAs are also discussed.
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- Xingyue Ji
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.,Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Vahabpour R, Soleymani S, Roohvand F, Zabihollahi R, Bolhassani A. In Vitro Anti-Viral Effects of Small Heat Shock Proteins 20 and 27: A Novel Therapeutic Approach. Curr Pharm Biotechnol 2020; 20:1011-1017. [PMID: 31362669 DOI: 10.2174/1389201020666190729104648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND The protective effects of heat shock proteins (Hsps) were studied in some infectious and non-infectious diseases, but their specificity was slightly known in various disorders. Among Hsps, small Hsps (e.g. Hsp27 and Hsp20) have important roles in protein folding and translocation, and also in immunity. METHODS In this study, overexpression of Hsp20 and Hsp27 was performed by transfection of the plasmids encoding Hsp20 and Hsp27 (pEGFP-Hsp20 and pEGFP-Hsp27) into Huh7.5, Hela and Vero cells using Lipofectamine along with heat shock. Then, their anti-herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), anti- human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) effects, as well as cytotoxicity, were evaluated in vitro, for the first time. RESULTS Our data showed that simultaneous treatment with Lipofectamine and heat shock augmented the rate of transfection and subsequently the expression of Hsps in these cells. Moreover, overexpression of Hsp20 in HCV-infected Huh7.5 cells, HIV-infected Hela cells and HSV-infected Vero cells reduced the replication of HCV, HIV and HSV, respectively. In contrast, overexpression of Hsp27 significantly decreased HSV replication similar to Hsp20, but it did not affect the replication of HIV and HCV. CONCLUSION Generally, Hsp20 was identified as a novel anti-HCV, anti-HSV and anti-HIV agent, but Hsp27 was efficient in the suppression of HSV infection. These Hsps may act through suppression of virus entry and/ or through interaction with viral proteins. Thus, it is necessary to determine their exact mechanisms in the near future.
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- Rouhollah Vahabpour
- Department of Medical Lab Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Bach DH, Lee SK. The Potential Impacts of Tylophora Alkaloids and their Derivatives in Modulating Inflammation, Viral Infections, and Cancer. Curr Med Chem 2019; 26:4709-4725. [PMID: 30047325 DOI: 10.2174/0929867325666180726123339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cancer chemotherapies or antitumor agents mainly remain the backbone of current treatment based on killing the rapidly dividing cancer cell such as tylophora alkaloids and their analogues which have also demonstrated anticancer potential through diverse biological pathways including regulation of the immune system. The introduction of durable clinically effective monoclonal antibodies, however, unmasked a new era of cancer immunotherapies. Therefore, the understanding of cancer pathogenesis will provide new possible treatment options, including cancer immunotherapy and targeted agents. Combining cytotoxic agents and immunotherapies may offer several unique advantages that are complementary to and potentially synergistic with biologic modalities. Herein, we highlight the dynamic mechanism of action of immune modulation in cancer and the immunological aspects of the orally active antitumor agents tylophora alkaloids and their analogues. We also suggest that future cancer treatments will rely on the development of combining tumor-targeted agents and biologic immunotherapies.
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- Duc-Hiep Bach
- College of Pharmacy, Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Plissonnier ML, Cottarel J, Piver E, Kullolli M, Centonze FG, Pitteri S, Farhan H, Meunier JC, Zoulim F, Parent R. LARP1 binding to hepatitis C virus particles is correlated with intracellular retention of viral infectivity. Virus Res 2019; 271:197679. [PMID: 31398365 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2019.197679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) virions contain a subset of host liver cells proteome often composed of interesting virus-interacting factors. A proteomic analysis performed on double gradient-purified clinical HCV highlighted the translation regulator LARP1 on these virions. This finding was validated using post-virion capture and immunoelectron microscopy, as well as immunoprecipitation applied to in vitro (Huh7.5 liver cells) grown (Gt2a, JFH1 strain) and patient-derived (Gt1a) HCV particles. Upon HCV infection of Huh7.5 cells, we observed a drastic transfer of LARP1 to lipid droplets, inducing colocalization with core proteins. RNAi-mediated depletion of LARP1 using the C911 control approach decreased extracellular infectivity of HCV Gt1a (H77), Gt2a (JFH1), and Gt3a (S52 chimeric strain), yet increased their intracellular infectivity. This latter effect was unrelated to changes in the hepatocyte secretory pathway, as evidenced using a functional RUSH assay. These results indicate that LARP1 binds to HCV, an event associated with retention of intracellular infectivity.
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- Marie-Laure Plissonnier
- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C -DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69008, Lyon, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C -DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69008, Lyon, France
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- Morphogenesis and Antigenicity of HIV and Hepatitis Viruses, INSERM U966, Université de Tours, F-37000, Tours, France
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- Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
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- Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, N-0372, Olso, Norway
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- Morphogenesis and Antigenicity of HIV and Hepatitis Viruses, INSERM U966, Université de Tours, F-37000, Tours, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C -DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69008, Lyon, France; Lyon University Hospital (Hospices civils de Lyon), Hepatogastroenterology Service, F-69001, Lyon, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C -DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69008, Lyon, France.
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Khachatoorian R, Cohn W, Buzzanco A, Riahi R, Arumugaswami V, Dasgupta A, Whitelegge JP, French SW. HSP70 Copurifies with Zika Virus Particles. Virology 2018; 522:228-233. [PMID: 30053656 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Revised: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Zika virus (ZIKV) has been identified as a cause of neurologic diseases in infants and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and currently, no therapeutics or vaccines are approved. In this study, we sought to identify potential host proteins interacting with ZIKV particles to gain better insights into viral infectivity. Viral particles were purified through density-gradient centrifugation and subsequently, size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). Mass spectrometric analyses revealed viral envelope protein and HSP70 to comigrate in only one SEC fraction. Neither of these proteins were found in any other SEC fractions. We then performed neutralization assays and found that incubating viral particles with antibody against HSP70 indeed significantly reduced viral infectivity, while HSC70 antibody did not. Preincubating cells with recombinant HSP70 also decreased viral infectivity. Knockdown and inhibition of HSP70 also significantly diminished viral production. These results implicate HSP70 in the pathogenesis of ZIKV and identify HSP70 as a potential host therapeutic target against ZIKV infection.
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- Ronik Khachatoorian
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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Wang Y, Chen SR, Yang X, Lee KH, Cheng YC. Structure-activity relationships of cryptopleurine analogs with E-ring modifications as anti-hepatitis C virus agents. Bioorg Med Chem 2017; 26:630-636. [PMID: 29317151 PMCID: PMC7172637 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The tylophorine analog rac-cryptopleurine exhibited potent anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) activity through allosteric regulation of ATPase activity of heat shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70). We evaluated the impact of modifications on the E-ring of rac-cryptopleurine to the inhibitory activity against HCV replication and regulation of ATPase activity of Hsc70. Cryptopleurine analog YXM-110 with a 13α-hydroxyl group maintained activity against HCV and promoted ATP/ADP turnover of Hsc70; however, compounds with hydroxyl groups at other positions or with other orientations (YXM-109, YXM-139, and YXM-140) did not exhibit similar activities. Size modification or heteroatom incorporation of the E-ring led to loss of anti-HCV activity. Promotion of the chaperone activity of Hsc70 with carboxyl terminus Hsc70 interacting protein (CHIP) further enhanced the anti-HCV activity of rac-cryptopleurine and XYM-110. This structure-activity relationship (SAR) study refined structural design and optimization for developing rac-crytopleurine analogs as potent anti-HCV agents targeted against the host factor involved in HCV replication.
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- Ying Wang
- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States; Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macau
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- Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macau
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- Natural Products Research Laboratories, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Natural Products Research Laboratories, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States; Chinese Medicine Research and Development Center, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States.
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Wang Y, Lee S, Ha Y, Lam W, Chen SR, Dutschman GE, Gullen EA, Grill SP, Cheng Y, Fürstner A, Francis S, Baker DC, Yang X, Lee KH, Cheng YC. Tylophorine Analogs Allosterically Regulates Heat Shock Cognate Protein 70 And Inhibits Hepatitis C Virus Replication. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10037. [PMID: 28855547 PMCID: PMC5577180 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08815-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Tylophorine analogs have been shown to exhibit diverse activities against cancer, inflammation, arthritis, and lupus in vivo. In this study, we demonstrated that two tylophorine analogs, DCB-3503 and rac-cryptopleurine, exhibit potent inhibitory activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication in genotype 1b Con 1 isolate. The inhibition of HCV replication is at least partially mediated through cellular heat shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70). Hsc70 associates with the HCV replication complex by primarily binding to the poly U/UC motifs in HCV RNA. The interaction of DCB-3503 and rac-cryptopleurine with Hsc70 promotes the ATP hydrolysis activity of Hsc70 in the presence of the 3' poly U/UC motif of HCV RNA. Regulating the ATPase activity of Hsc70 may be one of the mechanisms by which tylophorine analogs inhibit HCV replication. This study demonstrates the novel anti-HCV activity of tylophorine analogs. Our results also highlight the importance of Hsc70 in HCV replication.
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- Ying Wang
- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. .,Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macau, SAR, China.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macau, SAR, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Natural Products Research Laboratories, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Natural Products Research Laboratories, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.,Chinese Medicine Research and Development Center, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Reciprocal antagonism between the netrin-1 receptor uncoordinated-phenotype-5A (UNC5A) and the hepatitis C virus. Oncogene 2017; 36:6712-6724. [PMID: 28783179 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2017.271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), mainly through cirrhosis induction, spurring research for a deeper understanding of HCV versus host interactions in cirrhosis. The present study investigated crosstalks between HCV infection and UNC5A, a netrin-1 dependence receptor that is inactivated in cancer. UNC5A and HCV parameters were monitored in patients samples (n=550) as well as in in vitro. In patients, UNC5A mRNA expression is significantly decreased in clinical HCV(+) specimens irrespective of the viral genotype, but not in (HBV)(+) liver biopsies, as compared to uninfected samples. UNC5A mRNA is downregulated in F2 (3-fold; P=0.009), in F3 (10-fold, P=0.0004) and more dramatically so in F4/cirrhosis (44-fold; P<0.0001) histological stages of HCV(+) hepatic lesions compared to histologically matched HCV(-) tissues. UNC5A transcript was found strongly downregulated in HCC samples (33-fold; P<0.0001) as compared with non-HCC samples. In vivo, association of UNC5A transcripts with polyribosomes is decreased by 50% in HCV(+) livers. Consistent results were obtained in vitro showing HCV-dependent depletion of UNC5A in HCV-infected hepatocyte-like cells and in primary human hepatocytes. Using luciferase reporter constructs, HCV cumulatively decreased UNC5A transcription from the UNC5 promoter and translation in a UNC5A 5'UTR-dependent manner. Proximity ligation assays, kinase assays, as well as knockdown and forced expression experiments identified UNC5A as capable of impeding autophagy and promoting HCV restriction through specific impact on virion infectivity, in a cell death-independent and DAPK-related manner. In conclusion, while the UNC5A dependence receptor counteracts HCV persistence through regulation of autophagy in a DAPK-dependent manner, it is dramatically decreased in all instances in HCC samples, and specifically by HCV in cirrhosis. Such data argue for the evaluation of the implication of UNC5A in liver carcinogenesis.
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Guerrero CA, Acosta O. Inflammatory and oxidative stress in rotavirus infection. World J Virol 2016; 5:38-62. [PMID: 27175349 PMCID: PMC4861870 DOI: 10.5501/wjv.v5.i2.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Revised: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/29/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Rotaviruses are the single leading cause of life-threatening diarrhea affecting children under 5 years of age. Rotavirus entry into the host cell seems to occur by sequential interactions between virion proteins and various cell surface molecules. The entry mechanisms seem to involve the contribution of cellular molecules having binding, chaperoning and oxido-reducing activities. It appears to be that the receptor usage and tropism of rotaviruses is determined by the species, cell line and rotavirus strain. Rotaviruses have evolved functions which can antagonize the host innate immune response, whereas are able to induce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, oxidative stress and inflammatory signaling. A networking between ER stress, inflammation and oxidative stress is suggested, in which release of calcium from the ER increases the generation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to toxic accumulation of ROS within ER and mitochondria. Sustained ER stress potentially stimulates inflammatory response through unfolded protein response pathways. However, the detailed characterization of the molecular mechanisms underpinning these rotavirus-induced stressful conditions is still lacking. The signaling events triggered by host recognition of virus-associated molecular patterns offers an opportunity for the development of novel therapeutic strategies aimed at interfering with rotavirus infection. The use of N-acetylcysteine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and PPARγ agonists to inhibit rotavirus infection opens a new way for treating the rotavirus-induced diarrhea and complementing vaccines.
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Lycorine-derived phenanthridine downregulators of host Hsc70 as potential hepatitis C virus inhibitors. Future Med Chem 2016; 7:561-70. [PMID: 25921398 DOI: 10.4155/fmc.15.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A new series of potential phenanthridine hepatitis C virus (HCV) inhibitors which work by suppressing Hsc70 expression in the host cell was designed and synthesized from lycorine. RESULTS Thirty-one new potential phenanthridine HCV inhibitors were synthesized and five of these compounds exhibited good anti-HCV activity and these inhibitors probably inhibit HCV by downregulating the host Hsc70 expression. Structure-activity analysis of these compounds revealed that the double bond between C-11 and C-12 and the substituents at C-8 and C-9 are important for their activity against HCV. CONCLUSION Suppression of Hsc70 expression in the host cell to limit HCV replication is a potential anti-HCV strategy. Phenanthridines are probably the HCV inhibitors with this mode of action.
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Khachatoorian R, French SW. Chaperones in hepatitis C virus infection. World J Hepatol 2016; 8:9-35. [PMID: 26783419 PMCID: PMC4705456 DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v8.i1.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects approximately 3% of the world population or more than 185 million people worldwide. Each year, an estimated 350000-500000 deaths occur worldwide due to HCV-associated diseases including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV is the most common indication for liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis worldwide. HCV is an enveloped RNA virus classified in the genus Hepacivirus in the Flaviviridae family. The HCV viral life cycle in a cell can be divided into six phases: (1) binding and internalization; (2) cytoplasmic release and uncoating; (3) viral polyprotein translation and processing; (4) RNA genome replication; (5) encapsidation (packaging) and assembly; and (6) virus morphogenesis (maturation) and secretion. Many host factors are involved in the HCV life cycle. Chaperones are an important group of host cytoprotective molecules that coordinate numerous cellular processes including protein folding, multimeric protein assembly, protein trafficking, and protein degradation. All phases of the viral life cycle require chaperone activity and the interaction of viral proteins with chaperones. This review will present our current knowledge and understanding of the role of chaperones in the HCV life cycle. Analysis of chaperones in HCV infection will provide further insights into viral/host interactions and potential therapeutic targets for both HCV and other viruses.
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Host-Targeting Agents to Prevent and Cure Hepatitis C Virus Infection. Viruses 2015; 7:5659-85. [PMID: 26540069 PMCID: PMC4664971 DOI: 10.3390/v7112898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Revised: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) which are leading indications of liver transplantation (LT). To date, there is no vaccine to prevent HCV infection and LT is invariably followed by infection of the liver graft. Within the past years, direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have had a major impact on the management of chronic hepatitis C, which has become a curable disease in the majority of DAA-treated patients. In contrast to DAAs that target viral proteins, host-targeting agents (HTAs) interfere with cellular factors involved in the viral life cycle. By acting through a complementary mechanism of action and by exhibiting a generally higher barrier to resistance, HTAs offer a prospective option to prevent and treat viral resistance. Indeed, given their complementary mechanism of action, HTAs and DAAs can act in a synergistic manner to reduce viral loads. This review summarizes the different classes of HTAs against HCV infection that are in preclinical or clinical development and highlights their potential to prevent HCV infection, e.g., following LT, and to tailor combination treatments to cure chronic HCV infection.
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Cottarel J, Plissonnier ML, Kullolli M, Pitteri S, Clément S, Millarte V, Si-Ahmed SN, Farhan H, Zoulim F, Parent R. FIG4 is a hepatitis C virus particle-bound protein implicated in virion morphogenesis and infectivity with cholesteryl ester modulation potential. J Gen Virol 2015; 97:69-81. [PMID: 26519381 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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There is growing evidence that virus particles also contain host cell proteins, which provide viruses with certain properties required for entry and release. A proteomic analysis performed on double-gradient-purified hepatitis C virus (HCV) from two highly viraemic patients identified the phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate 5-phosphatase FIG4 (KIAA0274) as part of the viral particles. We validated the association using immunoelectron microscopy, immunoprecipitation and neutralization assays in vitro as well as patient-derived virus particles. RNA interference-mediated reduction of FIG4 expression decreased cholesteryl ester (CE) levels along with intra- and extracellular viral infectivity without affecting HCV RNA levels. Likewise, overexpressing FIG4 increased intracellular CE levels as well as intra- and extracellular viral infectivity without affecting viral RNA levels. Triglyceride levels and lipid droplet (LD) parameters remained unaffected. The 3,5-bisphosphate 5-phosphatase active site of FIG4 was found to strongly condition these results. Whilst FIG4 was found to localize to areas corresponding to viral assembly sites, at the immediate vicinity of LDs in calnexin-positive and HCV core-positive regions, no implication of FIG4 in the secretory pathway of the hepatocytes could be found using either FIG4-null mice, in vitro morphometry or functional assays of the ERGIC/Golgi compartments. This indicates that FIG4-dependent modulation of HCV infectivity is unrelated to alterations in the functionality of the secretory pathway. As a result of the documented implication of CE in the composition and infectivity of HCV particles, these results suggest that FIG4 binds to HCV and modulates particle formation in a CE-related manner.
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- Jessica Cottarel
- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C - DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, 69008 Lyon, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C - DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, 69008 Lyon, France
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- Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany.,Hôpital d'Orléans, 45000 Orléans, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C - DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, 69008 Lyon, France.,Hospices Civils de Lyon, Service d'Hépatogastroentérologie, 69001 Lyon, France
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- Pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and C - DEVweCAN LabEx, INSERM U1052-CNRS 5286, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, 69008 Lyon, France
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Kaushik S, Cuervo AM. Degradation of lipid droplet-associated proteins by chaperone-mediated autophagy facilitates lipolysis. Nat Cell Biol 2015; 17:759-70. [PMID: 25961502 PMCID: PMC4449813 DOI: 10.1038/ncb3166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 456] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) selectively degrades a subset of cytosolic proteins in lysosomes. A potent physiological activator of CMA is nutrient deprivation, a condition in which intracellular triglyceride stores or lipid droplets (LDs) also undergo hydrolysis (lipolysis) to generate free fatty acids for energetic purposes. Here we report that the LD-associated proteins perilipin 2 (PLIN2) and perilipin 3 (PLIN3) are CMA substrates and their degradation through CMA precedes lipolysis. In vivo studies revealed that CMA degradation of PLIN2 and PLIN3 was enhanced during starvation, concurrent with elevated levels of cytosolic adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL) and macroautophagy proteins on LDs. CMA blockage both in cultured cells and mouse liver or expression of CMA-resistant PLINs leads to reduced association of ATGL and macrolipophagy-related proteins with LDs and the subsequent decrease in lipid oxidation and accumulation of LDs. We propose a role for CMA in LD biology and in the maintenance of lipid homeostasis.
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- Susmita Kaushik
- Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
- Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
- Institute for Aging Studies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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The Picornaviridae represent a large family of small plus-strand RNA viruses that cause a bewildering array of important human and animal diseases. Morphogenesis is the least-understood step in the life cycle of these viruses, and this process is difficult to study because encapsidation is tightly coupled to genome translation and RNA replication. Although the basic steps of assembly have been known for some time, very few details are available about the mechanism and factors that regulate this process. Most of the information available has been derived from studies of enteroviruses, in particular poliovirus, where recent evidence has shown that, surprisingly, the specificity of encapsidation is governed by a viral protein-protein interaction that does not involve an RNA packaging signal. In this review, we make an attempt to summarize what is currently known about the following topics: (i) encapsidation intermediates, (ii) the specificity of encapsidation (iii), viral and cellular factors that are required for encapsidation, (iv) inhibitors of encapsidation, and (v) a model of enterovirus encapsidation. Finally, we compare some features of picornavirus morphogenesis with those of other plus-strand RNA viruses.
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Cellular stress responses in hepatitis C virus infection: Mastering a two-edged sword. Virus Res 2015; 209:100-17. [PMID: 25836277 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 03/21/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects chronically more than 150 million humans worldwide. Chronic HCV infection causes severe liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. While immune response-mediated events are major players in HCV pathogenesis, the impact that viral replication has on cellular homeostasis is increasingly recognized as a necessary contributor to pathological manifestations of HCV infection such as steatosis, insulin-resistance or liver cancer. In this review, we will briefly overview the different cellular stress pathways that are induced by hepatitis C virus infection, the response that the cell promotes to attempt regaining homeostasis or to induce dysfunctional cell death, and how the virus co-opts these response mechanisms to promote both viral replication and survival of the infected cell. We will review the role of unfolded protein and oxidative stress responses as well as the role of auto- and mitophagy in HCV infection. Finally, we will discuss the recent discovery of a cellular chaperone involved in stress responses, the sigma-1 receptor, as a cellular factor required at the onset of HCV infection and the potential molecular events underlying the proviral role of this cellular factor in HCV infection.
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Zhang C, Kang K, Ning P, Peng Y, Lin Z, Cui H, Cao Z, Wang J, Zhang Y. Heat shock protein 70 is associated with CSFV NS5A protein and enhances viral RNA replication. Virology 2015; 482:9-18. [PMID: 25827528 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Revised: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The non-structural 5A (NS5A) protein of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is proven to be involved in viral replication and can also modulate cellular signaling via to its ability to interact with various cellular proteins. Here, HSP70/NS5A complex formation is confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation and GST-pulldown studies. Additionally, the N-terminal amino acids (29-240) of NS5A were identified as the interaction region through in vivo deletion analyses, and confocal microscopy showed that NS5A and HSP70 colocalized in the cytoplasm. Overexpression of HSP70 via the eukaryotic expression plasmid pDsRED N1 or lentivirus significantly promoted viral RNA synthesis. Whereas the knockdown of HSP70 by lentivirus-mediated shRNA or inhibition by quercetin markedly decreased the viral load. These data suggest that HSP70 plays a critical role in the viral life cycle, particularly during the virus RNA replication period. The investigation of HSP70 protein functions may be beneficial for developing new strategies to treat CSFV infection.
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- Chengcheng Zhang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, PR China.
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Label-free quantitative mass spectrometry reveals a panel of differentially expressed proteins in colorectal cancer. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 2015:365068. [PMID: 25699276 PMCID: PMC4324820 DOI: 10.1155/2015/365068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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To identify potential biomarkers involved in CRC, a shotgun proteomic method was applied to identify soluble proteins in three CRCs and matched normal mucosal tissues using high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Label-free protein profiling of three CRCs and matched normal mucosal tissues were then conducted to quantify and compare proteins. Results showed that 67 of the 784 identified proteins were linked to CRC (28 upregulated and 39 downregulated). Gene Ontology and DAVID databases were searched to identify the location and function of differential proteins that were related to the biological processes of binding, cell structure, signal transduction, cell adhesion, and so on. Among the differentially expressed proteins, tropomyosin-3 (TPM3), endoplasmic reticulum resident protein 29 (ERp29), 18 kDa cationic antimicrobial protein (CAMP), and heat shock 70 kDa protein 8 (HSPA8) were verified to be upregulated in CRC tissue and seven cell lines through western blot analysis. Furthermore, the upregulation of TPM3, ERp29, CAMP, and HSPA8 was validated in 69 CRCs byimmunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis. Combination of TPM3, ERp29, CAMP, and HSPA8 can identify CRC from matched normal mucosal achieving an accuracy of 73.2% using IHC score. These results suggest that TPM3, ERp29, CAMP, and HSPA8 are great potential IHC diagnostic biomarkers for CRC.
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Khachatoorian R, Ruchala P, Waring A, Jung CL, Ganapathy E, Wheatley N, Sundberg C, Arumugaswami V, Dasgupta A, French SW. Structural characterization of the HSP70 interaction domain of the hepatitis C viral protein NS5A. Virology 2015; 475:46-55. [PMID: 25462345 PMCID: PMC4284078 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2014] [Revised: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We previously identified the NS5A/HSP70 binding site to be a hairpin moiety at C-terminus of NS5A domain I and showed a corresponding cyclized polyarginine-tagged synthetic peptide (HCV4) significantly blocks virus production. Here, sequence comparison confirmed five residues to be conserved. Based on NS5A domain I crystal structure, Phe171, Val173, and Tyr178 were predicted to form the binding interface. Substitution of Phe171 and Val173 with more hydrophobic unusual amino acids improved peptide antiviral activity and HSP70 binding, while similar substitutions at Tyr178 had a negative effect. Substitution of non-conserved residues with arginines maintained antiviral activity and HSP70 binding and dispensed with polyarginine tag for cellular entry. Peptide cyclization improved antiviral activity and HSP70 binding. The cyclic retro-inverso analog displayed the best antiviral properties. FTIR spectroscopy confirmed a secondary structure consisting of an N-terminal beta-sheet followed by a turn and a C-terminal beta-sheet. These peptides constitute a new class of anti-HCV compounds.
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- Ronik Khachatoorian
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Division of Molecular Medicine at the Department of Medicine, Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program (MBIDP), Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Surgery, The Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Ding CB, Zhao Y, Zhang JP, Peng ZG, Song DQ, Jiang JD. A zebrafish model for subgenomic hepatitis C virus replication. Int J Mol Med 2015; 35:791-7. [PMID: 25572289 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2015.2063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Persistent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major risk factor in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. The elucidation of the pathogenesis of HCV-associated liver disease is hampered by the absence of an appropriate small animal model. Zebrafish exhibits high genetic homology to mammals, and is easily manipulated experimentally. In this study, we describe the use of a zebrafish model for the analysis of HCV replication mechanisms. As the 5' untranslated region (UTR), the core protein, the non-structural protein 5B (NS5B) and the 3'UTR are essential for HCV replication, we constructed a HCV sub-replicon gene construct including the 4 gene sequences and the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter gene; these genes were transcribed through the mouse hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (mHNF4) promoter. By microinjection of the subgenomic replicon vector into zebrafish larvae, the virus was easily detected by observing EGFP fluorescence in the liver. The positive core and NS5B signals showed positive expression of the HCV gene construct in zebrafish by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and western blot analysis. Importantly, the negative strand sequence of the HCV subgenomic RNA was detected by RT-PCR and hybridization in situ, demonstrating that the HCV sub-replicon has positive replication activity. Furthermore, the hybridization signal mainly appeared in the liver region of larvae, as detected by the sense probe of the core protein or NS5B, which confirmed that the sub-replicon amplification occurred in the zebrafish liver. The amplification of the sub-replicon caused alterations in the expression of certain genes, which is similar to HCV infection in human liver cells. To verify the use of this zebrafish model in drug evaluation, two drugs against HCV used in clinical practice, ribavirin and oxymatrine, were tested and these drugs showed significant inhibition of replication of the HCV sub-replicon in the larvae. In conclusion, this zebrafish model of HCV may prove to be a novel and simple in vivo model for the study of the mechanisms of HCV replication and may also prove useful in the disovery of new anti-HCV drugs.
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- Cun-Bao Ding
- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, P.R. China
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Kamo Y, Ichikawa T, Miyaaki H, Uchida S, Yamaguchi T, Shibata H, Honda T, Taura N, Isomoto H, Takeshima F, Nakao K. Significance of miRNA-122 in chronic hepatitis C patients with serotype 1 on interferon therapy. Hepatol Res 2015; 45:88-96. [PMID: 24612050 DOI: 10.1111/hepr.12317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2013] [Revised: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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AIM Peginterferon (PEG IFN) and ribavirin combination therapy is a curative treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and virological response to IFN therapy has been strongly associated with genetic variation in IL28B single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). Recently, miRNA122 (miR-122), which is the most abundant miRNA in the liver, has been reported to be important for the replication of HCV RNA. Therefore, we investigated the correlation of miR-122 expression with virological response to IFN and other clinical data. METHODS A total of 51 patients with HCV infection who were treated with IFN therapy at Nagasaki University Hospital from 2006 to 2011 were included in this study. We investigated the correlation of miR-122 expression in liver biopsy specimens with virological response to IFN therapy and other predictors of response, including IL28 SNP. RESULTS miR-122 expression did not correlate with IL28 SNP. However, a significant difference was observed in miR-122 expression between patients who showed a sustained virological response (SVR) and those who did not (P < 0.05). Multivariate analysis indicated that miR-122 is an independent predictor of SVR. CONCLUSION miR-122 expression could be a marker for predicting the outcome of IFN therapy. Therapies targeting miR-122 may have positive effects not only by directly inhibiting viral propagation but also by ameliorating cholesterol and lipid abnormalities.
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- Yasuhiro Kamo
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Hepatitis C virus life cycle and lipid metabolism. BIOLOGY 2014; 3:892-921. [PMID: 25517881 PMCID: PMC4280516 DOI: 10.3390/biology3040892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Revised: 12/04/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects over 150 million people worldwide. In most cases HCV infection becomes chronic, causing liver disease ranging from fibrosis to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV affects the cholesterol homeostasis and at the molecular level, every step of the virus life cycle is intimately connected to lipid metabolism. In this review, we present an update on the lipids and apolipoproteins that are involved in the HCV infectious cycle steps: entry, replication and assembly. Moreover, the result of the assembly process is a lipoviroparticle, which represents a peculiarity of hepatitis C virion. This review illustrates an example of an intricate virus-host interaction governed by lipid metabolism.
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Lin CC, Tsai P, Sun HY, Hsu MC, Lee JC, Wu IC, Tsao CW, Chang TT, Young KC. Apolipoprotein J, a glucose-upregulated molecular chaperone, stabilizes core and NS5A to promote infectious hepatitis C virus virion production. J Hepatol 2014; 61:984-93. [PMID: 24996046 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Revised: 06/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection leads to glucose abnormality. HCV depends on lipid droplets (LDs) and very-low density lipoproteins for assembly/releasing; however, the components and locations for this process remain unidentified. Apolipoprotein J (ApoJ), upregulated by glucose, functions as Golgi chaperone of secreted proteins and resides abundantly in very-low density lipoproteins. This study investigates the interplay between glucose, ApoJ and HCV virion production. METHODS The effects of high glucose on ApoJ expression and HCV production were evaluated with cultivated HuH7.5, primary human hepatocytes, and in treatment naive chronic hepatitis C patients. How ApoJ affects HCV lifecycle was assessed using siRNA knockdown strategy in JFH1 infected and subgenomic replicon cells. The interactions and locations of ApoJ with viral and host components were examined by immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence and subcellular fractionation experiments. RESULTS HCV infection increased ApoJ expression, which in parallel with HCV infectivity was additionally elevated with high glucose treatment. Serum ApoJ correlated positively with fasting blood glucose concentration and HCV-RNA titre in patients. ApoJ silencing reduced intracellular and extracellular HCV infectivity and extracellular HCV-RNA, but accumulated intracellular HCV-RNA in HCV-infected cells. ApoJ interacted with HCV core and NS5A and stabilized the dual protein complex. HCV infection dispersed cytoplasmic ApoJ from the compact zones of the Golgi to encircle LDs, where co-localization of the core, NS5A, HCV-RNA, subcellular markers for LDs, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi, and membrane contact sites occurred. CONCLUSIONS ApoJ facilitates infectious HCV particle production via stabilization of core/NS5A, which might surround LDs at the ER-Golgi membrane contact site.
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- Chun-Chieh Lin
- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Nursing, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
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UNLABELLED Nervous necrosis virus (NNV) is a devastating pathogen of cultured marine fish and has affected more than 40 fish species. NNV belongs to the betanodaviruses of Nodaviridae and is a nonenveloped icosahedral particle with 2 single-stranded positive-sense RNAs. To date, knowledge regarding NNV entry into the host cell remains limited, and no NNV-specific receptor protein has been published. Using grouper fin cell line GF-1 and purified NNV capsid protein in a virus overlay protein binding assay (VOPBA), grouper heat shock cognate protein 70 (GHSC70) and grouper voltage-dependent anion selective channel protein 2 (GVDAC2) were investigated as NNV receptor protein candidates. We cloned and sequenced the genes for GHSC70 and GVDAC2 and expressed them in Escherichia coli for antiserum preparation. Knockdown of the expression of GHSC70 and GVDAC2 genes with specific short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) significantly downregulated viral RNA expression in NNV-infected GF-1 cells. By performing an immunoprecipitation assay, we confirmed that GHSC70 interacted with NNV capsid protein, while VDAC2 did not. Immunofluorescence staining and flow cytometry analysis revealed the presence of the GHSC70 protein on the cell surface. After a blocking assay, we detected the NNV RNA2 levels after 1 h of adsorption to GF-1 cells; the level was significantly lower in the cells pretreated with the GHSC70 antiserum than in nontreated cells. Therefore, we suggest that GHSC70 participates in the NNV entry of GF-1 cells, likely functioning as an NNV receptor or coreceptor protein. IMPORTANCE Fish nodavirus has caused mass mortality of more than 40 fish species worldwide and resulted in huge economic losses in the past 20 years. Among the four genotypes of fish nodaviruses, the red-spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV) genotype exhibits the widest host range. In our previous study, we developed monoclonal antibodies with high neutralizing efficiency against grouper NNV in GF-1 cells, indicating that NNV-specific receptor(s) may exist on the GF-1 cell membrane. However, no NNV receptor protein has been published. In this study, we found GHSC70 to be an NNV receptor (or coreceptor) candidate through VOBPA and provided several lines of evidence demonstrating that GHSC70 protein has a role in the NNV entry step of GF-1 cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report identifying grouper HSC70 and its role in NNV entry into GF-1 cells.
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Lai CK, Saxena V, Tseng CH, Jeng KS, Kohara M, Lai MMC. Nonstructural protein 5A is incorporated into hepatitis C virus low-density particle through interaction with core protein and microtubules during intracellular transport. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99022. [PMID: 24905011 PMCID: PMC4048239 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2014] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) serves dual functions in viral RNA replication and virus assembly. Here, we demonstrate that HCV replication complex along with NS5A and Core protein was transported to the lipid droplet (LD) through microtubules, and NS5A-Core complexes were then transported from LD through early-to-late endosomes to the plasma membrane via microtubules. Further studies by cofractionation analysis and immunoelectron microscopy of the released particles showed that NS5A-Core complexes, but not NS4B, were present in the low-density fractions, but not in the high-density fractions, of the HCV RNA-containing virions and associated with the internal virion core. Furthermore, exosomal markers CD63 and CD81 were also detected in the low-density fractions, but not in the high-density fractions. Overall, our results suggest that HCV NS5A is associated with the core of the low-density virus particles which exit the cell through a preexisting endosome/exosome pathway and may contribute to HCV natural infection.
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- Chao-Kuen Lai
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Toxicology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Gao J, Xiao S, Liu X, Wang L, Ji Q, Mo D, Chen Y. Inhibition of HSP70 reduces porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus replication in vitro. BMC Microbiol 2014; 14:64. [PMID: 24625230 PMCID: PMC3984673 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-14-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Successful viral infection requires the involvement of host cellular factors in their life cycle. Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) can be recruited by numerous viruses to promote the folding, maturation, or assembly of viral proteins. We have previously shown that HSP70 is significantly elevated in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)-infected lungs, suggesting HSP70 may play a potential role during PRRSV infection. In this study, we tried to investigate the role of HSP70 during PRRSV infection. Results In this study, we observed that PRRSV infection induced the expression of HSP70. The down-regulation of HSP70 using quercetin, a HSPs synthesis inhibitor, or small interfering RNAs (siRNA) reduced the viral protein level and viral production. Notably, these inhibitory effects on PRRSV infection could be attenuated by heat shock treatment. In addition, HSP70 was found to colocalize with the viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and knockdown of HSP70 decreased the dsRNA levels, suggesting HSP70 is involved in the formation of viral replication and transcription complex (RTC) and thus affects the viral replication. Conclusions Our study revealed that HSP70 is an essential host factor required for the replication of PRRSV. The inhibition of HSP70 significantly reduced PRRSV replication, which may be applied as an effective antiviral strategy.
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, P, R, China.
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Khachatoorian R, Ganapathy E, Ahmadieh Y, Wheatley N, Sundberg C, Jung CL, Arumugaswami V, Raychaudhuri S, Dasgupta A, French SW. The NS5A-binding heat shock proteins HSC70 and HSP70 play distinct roles in the hepatitis C viral life cycle. Virology 2014; 454-455:118-27. [PMID: 24725938 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Revised: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We previously identified HSP70 and HSC70 in complex with NS5A in a proteomic screen. Here, coimmunoprecipitation studies confirmed NS5A/HSC70 complex formation during infection, and immunofluorescence studies showed NS5A and HSC70 to colocalize. Unlike HSP70, HSC70 knockdown did not decrease viral protein levels. Rather, intracellular infectious virion assembly was significantly impaired by HSC70 knockdown. We also discovered that both HSC70 nucleotide binding and substrate binding domains directly bind NS5A whereas only the HSP70 nucleotide binding domain does. Knockdown of both HSC70 and HSP70 demonstrated an additive reduction in virus production. This data suggests that HSC70 and HSP70 play discrete roles in the viral life cycle. Investigation of these different functions may facilitate developing of novel strategies that target host proteins to treat HCV infection.
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- Ronik Khachatoorian
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program (MBIDP), Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; Molecular Biology Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; Department of Surgery, Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; UCLA AIDS Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
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Liu D, Ni B, Wang L, Zhang M, Liu W, Wu Y. Hepatitis B virus core protein interacts with CD59 to promote complement-mediated liver inflammation during chronic hepatitis B virus infection. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:3314-20. [PMID: 24036449 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Revised: 08/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The inflammatory response mediated by the immune system is the major cause of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated liver injury. Here, we identified CD59, as a novel HBc-interacting protein in hepatocytes by tandem affinity purification (TAP) screening. The expression of CD59 was markedly down-regulated in HBc-transfected HepG2 or HepG2.215 cells, which resulted in an upshift of hepatocyte sensitivity to membrane attack complex (MAC)-induced cell lysis. These results were consistent with the accumulation of MACs in the liver of HBV-infected patients. Additional analyses using laser confocal microscopy, quantitative PCR and flow cytometry revealed that CD59 was specifically translocated to the nucleus upon binding to HBc, which induced the down-regulation of CD59 on both the mRNA and protein levels.
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- Dong Liu
- Institute of Immunology, PLA, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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Wang BS, Yang Y, Yang H, Liu YZ, Hao JJ, Zhang Y, Shi ZZ, Jia XM, Zhan QM, Wang MR. PKCι counteracts oxidative stress by regulating Hsc70 in an esophageal cancer cell line. Cell Stress Chaperones 2013; 18:359-66. [PMID: 23224638 PMCID: PMC3631091 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-012-0389-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2012] [Revised: 11/15/2012] [Accepted: 11/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Using a glutathione S-transferase pull-down liquid chromatography-coupled tandem mass spectrometry approach and immunoprecipitation/immunoblot analysis, we found that heat shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70) was involved in the complex formed by atypical protein kinase Cι (PKCι) and LC3 in the esophageal cancer cell line KYSE30. Further study indicated that Hsc70 was targeted by autophagic degradation, and knockdown of PKCι down-regulated Hsc70 by promoting autophagy. PKCι knockdown sensitized cells to oxidative stress-induced apoptosis, whereas forced PKCι expression counteracted the oxidative stress-induced apoptosis via Hsc70.
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- Bo-Shi Wang
- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
- />Department of Histology and Embryology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />Department of Histology and Embryology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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- />State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021 China
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Du NN, Peng ZG, Bi CW, Tang S, Li YH, Li JR, Zhu YP, Zhang JP, Wang YX, Jiang JD, Song DQ. N-substituted benzyl matrinic acid derivatives inhibit hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication through down-regulating host heat-stress cognate 70 (Hsc70) expression. PLoS One 2013; 8:e58675. [PMID: 23516533 PMCID: PMC3597726 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Heat-stress cognate 70 (Hsc70) is a host factor that helps hepatitis C virus (HCV) to complete its life cycle in infected hepatocytes. Using Hsc70 as a target for HCV inhibition, a series of novel N-substituted benzyl matrinic/sophoridinic acid derivatives was synthesized and evaluated for their anti-HCV activity in vitro. Among these analogues, compound 7c possessing N-p-methylbenzyl afforded an appealing ability to inhibit HCV replication with SI value over 53. Furthermore, it showed a good oral pharmacokinetic profile with area-under-curve (AUC) of 13.4 µM·h, and a considerably good safety in oral administration in mice (LD50>1000 mg/kg). As 7c suppresses HCV replication via an action mode distinctly different from that of the marketed anti-HCV drugs, it has been selected as a new mechanism anti-HCV candidate for further investigation, with an advantage of no or decreased chance to induce drug-resistant mutations.
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- Na-Na Du
- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Functions of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (J-DJ); (D-QS)
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (J-DJ); (D-QS)
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Chen DZ, Jiang JD, Zhang KQ, He HP, Di YT, Zhang Y, Cai JY, Wang L, Li SL, Yi P, Peng ZG, Hao XJ. Evaluation of anti-HCV activity and SAR study of (+)-lycoricidine through targeting of host heat-stress cognate 70 (Hsc70). Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2013; 23:2679-82. [PMID: 23511018 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.02.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2012] [Revised: 02/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/20/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The anti hepatitis C virus (HCV) activity of (+)-lycoricidine (1) was evaluated for the first time in this letter, yielding an EC50 value of 0.55 nmol/mL and an selection index (SI) value of 12.72. Further studies indicated that 1 induced this effect by down-regulating host heat-stress cognate 70 (Hsc70) expression. In addition, 20 derivatives were designed and synthesised to investigate the basic structure-activity relationship (SAR) of the title compound. Several of these derivatives exhibit a good inhibition of HCV, such as compound 3 (EC50=0.68 nmol/mL, SI=33.86), compound 2d (EC50=15 nmol/mL, SI=12) and compound 5 (EC50=33 nmol/mL, SI >10.91). Meanwhile, the experimental data suggest that the modification of certain groups of (+)-lycoricidine can reduce the cytotoxicity of the compounds.
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- Duo-Zhi Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, PR China
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Bian Z, Xiao A, Cao M, Liu M, Liu S, Jiao Y, Yan W, Qi Z, Zheng Z. Anti-HBV efficacy of combined siRNAs targeting viral gene and heat shock cognate 70. Virol J 2012; 9:275. [PMID: 23158906 PMCID: PMC3534549 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-9-275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 11/12/2012] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major health concern with more than two billion individuals currently infected worldwide. Because of the limited effectiveness of existing vaccines and drugs, development of novel antiviral strategies is urgently needed. Heat stress cognate 70 (Hsc70) is an ATP-binding protein of the heat stress protein 70 family. Hsc70 has been found to be required for HBV DNA replication. Here we report, for the first time, that combined siRNAs targeting viral gene and siHsc70 are highly effective in suppressing ongoing HBV expression and replication. METHODS We constructed two plasmids (S1 and S2) expressing short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) targeting surface open reading frame of HBV(HBVS) and one plasmid expressing shRNA targeting Hsc70 (siHsc70), and we used the EGFP-specific siRNA plasmid (siEGFP) as we had previously described. First, we evaluated the gene-silencing efficacy of both shRNAs using an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter system and flow cytometry in HEK293 and T98G cells. Then, the antiviral potencies of HBV-specific siRNA (siHBV) in combination with siHsc70 in HepG2.2.15 cells were investigated. Moreover, type I IFN and TNF-α induction were measured by quantitative real-time PCR and ELISA. RESULTS Cotransfection of either S1 or S2 with an EGFP plasmid produced an 80%-90% reduction in EGFP signal relative to the control. This combinational RNAi effectively and specifically inhibited HBV protein, mRNA and HBV DNA, resulting in up to a 3.36 log10 reduction in HBV load in the HepG2.2.15 cell culture supernatants. The combined siRNAs were more potent than siHBV or siHsc70 used separately, and this approach can enhance potency in suppressing ongoing viral gene expression and replication in HepG2.2.15 cells while forestalling escape by mutant HBV. The antiviral synergy of siHBV used in combination with siHsc70 produced no cytotoxicity and induced no production of IFN-α, IFN-β and TNF-α in transfected cells. CONCLUSIONS Our combinational RNAi was sequence-specific, effective against wild-type and mutant drug-resistant HBV strains, without triggering interferon response or producing any side effects. These findings indicate that combinational RNAi has tremendous promise for developing innovative therapy against viral infection.
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- Zhongqi Bian
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Kunming General Hospital, PLA, 212 Daguan Rd, Kunming 650032, PR China.
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Li XL, Kang Y, Zhang XY, Zhu BL, Fang WH. Identification of a heat shock cognate protein 70 gene in Chinese soft-shell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) and its expression profiles under thermal stress. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 2012; 13:465-77. [PMID: 22661209 DOI: 10.1631/jzus.b1100309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The heat shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70) is a member of a 70-kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) family that functions as molecular chaperones. In this study, a novel Hsc70 gene from Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) (tHsc70) was identified. The tHsc70 full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) is 2272 bp long with a 1941-bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding 646 amino acids. Three characteristic signature regions of the HSP70 family, two major domains of an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)/guanosine triphosphate (GTP) binding domain (ABD), and a substrate-binding domain (SBD) were present in the predicted tHsc70 amino acid sequence. The tHsc70 gene was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 and the expression product reacted with the anti-Hsc70 mouse monoclonal antibody by Western blotting. Homology analysis revealed that tHsc70 shared identity from 53.9% to 87.7% at the nucleotide level, and 49.1% to 99.5% at the amino acid level with the known Hsc70s. Phylogenetic analysis showed that tHsc70 was clustered together with the Hsc70 gene of another reptile species (Alligator mississippiensis). The tHsc70 was expressed in the liver, lung, heart, and skeletal muscle. The expression patterns of tHsc70 messenger RNA (mRNA) differed among different tissues under different durations of heat stress at 40 °C. Adaptation at 25 °C for 1 h after heat stress was also different among tissues and length of heat stress. Irrespective of different profiles of expression under heat stress, tHsc70 may play roles in protecting turtles from thermal stress.
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- Xiao-liang Li
- Zhejiang University Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Chatel-Chaix L, Germain MA, Götte M, Lamarre D. Direct-acting and host-targeting HCV inhibitors: current and future directions. Curr Opin Virol 2012; 2:588-98. [PMID: 22959589 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2012.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2012] [Accepted: 08/07/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The inclusion of NS3 protease inhibitors to the interferon-containing standard of care improved sustained viral response rates in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients. However, there is still an unmet medical need as this drug regimen is poorly tolerated and lacks efficacy, especially in difficult-to-treat patients. Intense drug discovery and development efforts have focused on direct-acting antivirals (DAA) that target NS3 protease, NS5B polymerase and the NS5A protein. DAA combinations are currently assessed in clinical trials. Alternative antivirals have emerged that target host machineries co-opted by HCV. Finally, continuous and better understanding of HCV biology allows speculating on the value of novel classes of DAA required in future personalized all-oral interferon-free combination therapy and for supporting global disease eradication.
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- Laurent Chatel-Chaix
- Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et en Cancérologie (IRIC), Montréal, Québec H3T 1J4, Canada
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Comprehensive review on the HSC70 functions, interactions with related molecules and involvement in clinical diseases and therapeutic potential. Pharmacol Ther 2012; 136:354-74. [PMID: 22960394 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2012.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Heat shock cognate protein 70 (HSC70) is a constitutively expressed molecular chaperone which belongs to the heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) family. HSC70 shares some of the structural and functional similarity with HSP70. HSC70 also has different properties compared with HSP70 and other heat shock family members. HSC70 performs its full functions by the cooperation of co-chaperones. It interacts with many other molecules as well and regulates various cellular functions. It is also involved in various diseases and may become a biomarker for diagnosis and potential therapeutic targets for design, discovery, and development of novel drugs to treat various diseases. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review on HSC70 from the literatures including the basic general information such as classification, structure and cellular location, genetics and function, as well as its protein association and interaction with other proteins. In addition, we also discussed the relationship of HSC70 and related clinical diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, hepatic and many other diseases and possible therapeutic potential and highlight the progress and prospects of research in this field. Understanding the functions of HSC70 and its interaction with other molecules will help us to reveal other novel properties of this protein. Scientists may be able to utilize this protein as a biomarker and therapeutic target to make significant advancement in scientific research and clinical setting in the future.
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Neveu G, Barouch-Bentov R, Ziv-Av A, Gerber D, Jacob Y, Einav S. Identification and targeting of an interaction between a tyrosine motif within hepatitis C virus core protein and AP2M1 essential for viral assembly. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1002845. [PMID: 22916011 PMCID: PMC3420927 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Accepted: 06/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Novel therapies are urgently needed against hepatitis C virus infection (HCV), a major global health problem. The current model of infectious virus production suggests that HCV virions are assembled on or near the surface of lipid droplets, acquire their envelope at the ER, and egress through the secretory pathway. The mechanisms of HCV assembly and particularly the role of viral-host protein-protein interactions in mediating this process are, however, poorly understood. We identified a conserved heretofore unrecognized YXXΦ motif (Φ is a bulky hydrophobic residue) within the core protein. This motif is homologous to sorting signals within host cargo proteins known to mediate binding of AP2M1, the μ subunit of clathrin adaptor protein complex 2 (AP-2), and intracellular trafficking. Using microfluidics affinity analysis, protein-fragment complementation assays, and co-immunoprecipitations in infected cells, we show that this motif mediates core binding to AP2M1. YXXΦ mutations, silencing AP2M1 expression or overexpressing a dominant negative AP2M1 mutant had no effect on HCV RNA replication, however, they dramatically inhibited intra- and extracellular infectivity, consistent with a defect in viral assembly. Quantitative confocal immunofluorescence analysis revealed that core's YXXΦ motif mediates recruitment of AP2M1 to lipid droplets and that the observed defect in HCV assembly following disruption of core-AP2M1 binding correlates with accumulation of core on lipid droplets, reduced core colocalization with E2 and reduced core localization to trans-Golgi network (TGN), the presumed site of viral particles maturation. Furthermore, AAK1 and GAK, serine/threonine kinases known to stimulate binding of AP2M1 to host cargo proteins, regulate core-AP2M1 binding and are essential for HCV assembly. Last, approved anti-cancer drugs that inhibit AAK1 or GAK not only disrupt core-AP2M1 binding, but also significantly inhibit HCV assembly and infectious virus production. These results validate viral-host interactions essential for HCV assembly and yield compounds for pharmaceutical development. Novel antiviral strategies are needed to combat the HCV pandemic. Understanding viral-host determinants involved in mediating assembly is critical for the development of drugs targeting this stage of the HCV life cycle. We identified a conserved heretofore unrecognized tyrosine motif within core, which is homologous to sorting signals within host cargo proteins that are recognized by AP2M1, a membrane trafficking protein. By combining novel proteomic techniques with molecular virology, RNAi, dominant-interfering, and pharmacological approaches, we show that this motif mediates core binding to AP2M1 and HCV assembly and that AP2M1 is essential for HCV assembly. Core's tryosine motif recruits AP2M1 to lipid droplets, the site of viral assembly, and disruption of core-AP2M1 binding alters core's sub-cellular localization and colocalization with the envelope protein E2. AAK1 and GAK, host kinases that stimulate AP2M1's interactions with cargo proteins, regulate core-AP2M1 binding and are essential for HCV assembly. Last, we discovered kinase inhibitors, which bind AAK1 or GAK and disrupt core-AP2M1 binding and HCV assembly. Our study provides insight into mechanisms of HCV assembly and yields candidate targets and compounds for pharmaceutical development. Since some of the discovered compounds are approved anti-cancer drugs, there may be an opportunity for repurposing them as antivirals.
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- Gregory Neveu
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Virology, Unité de Génétique, Papillomavirus et Cancer Humain (GPCH), Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Riedel C, Lamp B, Heimann M, König M, Blome S, Moennig V, Schüttler C, Thiel HJ, Rümenapf T. The core protein of classical Swine Fever virus is dispensable for virus propagation in vitro. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1002598. [PMID: 22457622 PMCID: PMC3310793 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2011] [Accepted: 02/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Core protein of Flaviviridae is regarded as essential factor for nucleocapsid formation. Yet, core protein is not encoded by all isolates (GBV- A and GBV- C). Pestiviruses are a genus within the family Flaviviridae that affect cloven-hoofed animals, causing economically important diseases like classical swine fever (CSF) and bovine viral diarrhea (BVD). Recent findings describe the ability of NS3 of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) to compensate for disabling size increase of core protein (Riedel et al., 2010). NS3 is a nonstructural protein possessing protease, helicase and NTPase activity and a key player in virus replication. A role of NS3 in particle morphogenesis has also been described for other members of the Flaviviridae (Patkar et al., 2008; Ma et al., 2008). These findings raise questions about the necessity and function of core protein and the role of NS3 in particle assembly. A reverse genetic system for CSFV was employed to generate poorly growing CSFVs by modification of the core gene. After passaging, rescued viruses had acquired single amino acid substitutions (SAAS) within NS3 helicase subdomain 3. Upon introduction of these SAAS in a nonviable CSFV with deletion of almost the entire core gene (Vp447Δc), virus could be rescued. Further characterization of this virus with regard to its physical properties, morphology and behavior in cell culture did not reveal major differences between wildtype (Vp447) and Vp447Δc. Upon infection of the natural host, Vp447Δc was attenuated. Hence we conclude that core protein is not essential for particle assembly of a core-encoding member of the Flaviviridae, but important for its virulence. This raises questions about capsid structure and necessity, the role of NS3 in particle assembly and the function of core protein in general. Virus particles of members of the Flaviviridae consist of an inner complex of viral RNA genome and core protein that together form the nucleocapsid, and an outer lipid layer containing the viral glycoproteins. Functional analyses of core protein of the classical swine fever virus (CSFV), a pestivirus related to hepatitis C virus (HCV), led to the observation that crippling mutations or even complete deletion of the core gene were compensated by single amino acid substitutions in the helicase domain of non-structural protein 3 (NS3). NS3 is well conserved among the Flaviviridae and acts as protease and helicase. In addition to its essential role in RNA replication, NS3 apparently organizes the incorporation of RNA into budding virus particles. Characterization of core deficient CSFV particles (Vp447Δc) revealed that the lack of core had no effect with regard to thermostability, size, density, and morphology. Vp447Δc was fully attenuated in the natural host. Our results provide evidence that core protein is not essential for virus assembly. Hence, Vp447Δc might help to explain the enigmatic existence of GB viruses -A and -C, close relatives of HCV that do not encode an apparent core protein.
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- Christiane Riedel
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
| | - Matthias König
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
| | - Sandra Blome
- Institute of Virology, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
| | - Volker Moennig
- Institute of Virology, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
| | - Christian Schüttler
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
| | - Heinz-Jürgen Thiel
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
| | - Tillmann Rümenapf
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany
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