HCV NS3 protease enhances liver fibrosis via binding to and activating TGF-β type i receptor

Kotaro Sakata, Mitsuko Hara, Takaho Terada, Noriyuki Watanabe, Daisuke Takaya, So Ichi Yaguchi, Takehisa Matsumoto, Tomokazu Matsuura, Mikako Shirouzu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Tokio Yamaguchi, Keiji Miyazawa, Hideki Aizaki, Tetsuro Suzuki, Takaji Wakita, Masaya Imoto, Soichi Kojima

研究成果: Article査読

32 被引用数 (Scopus)

抄録

Viruses sometimes mimic host proteins and hijack the host cell machinery. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes liver fibrosis, a process largely mediated by the overexpression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β and collagen, although the precise underlying mechanism is unknown. Here, we report that HCV non-structural protein 3 (NS3) protease affects the antigenicity and bioactivity of TGF-β2 in (CAGA) 9 -Luc CCL64 cells and in human hepatic cell lines via binding to TGF-β type I receptor (TβRI). Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α facilitates this mechanism by increasing the colocalization of TβRI with NS3 protease on the surface of HCV-infected cells. An anti-NS3 antibody against computationally predicted binding sites for TβRI blocked the TGF-β mimetic activities of NS3 in vitro and attenuated liver fibrosis in HCV-infected chimeric mice. These data suggest that HCV NS3 protease mimics TGF-β2 and functions, at least in part, via directly binding to and activating TβRI, thereby enhancing liver fibrosis.

本文言語English
論文番号3243
ジャーナルScientific reports
3
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2013
外部発表はい

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 一般

フィンガープリント

「HCV NS3 protease enhances liver fibrosis via binding to and activating TGF-β type i receptor」の研究トピックを掘り下げます。これらがまとまってユニークなフィンガープリントを構成します。

引用スタイル