Abstract
One of the prominent features of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is persistent infection, which is assumed to be a crucial event as a result of evading host defense system. Type I interferon beta (IFN- beta) system is induced rapidly after viral infection and plays a central role in innate immunity. Upon immediate induction of type I IFN as host first defense line, interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF-3) is phosphorylated, formed of homodimer and translocates to nucleus. IFN-beta induction due to new castle disease virus (NDV) was significantly decreasd after the expression of full HCV genome (HCR6-Rz). Similar modification was observed in cell line expressing core to the NS2 protein region (HCR6-Fse). However, this decreasing was not observed in cell line expressing NS2 to the NS5B region (HCR6-Age). IRF-3 dimer formation induced by NDV infection was also suppressed after the expression of HCR6-Rz and HCR6-Fse, but not HCR6-Age. We further analyzed using transiently expressed HCV core, E1 or E2 in HepG2 cells. The suppression of IRF-3 dimer formation was caused by HCV core protein alone. These results indicated that a new crucial biological function of HCV core protein that may be related to persistence and pathogenesis of HCV.
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