Canine Hepacivirus NS3 Serine Protease Can Cleave the Human Adaptor Proteins MAVS and TRIF
Parera, Mariona (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca de la Sida IrsiCaixa)
Martrus, Gloria (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca de la Sida IrsiCaixa)
Franco Cirera, Sandra (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca de la Sida IrsiCaixa)
Clotet Sala, Bonaventura (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca de la Sida IrsiCaixa)
Martinez, Miguel Angel (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol. Institut de Recerca de la Sida IrsiCaixa)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date:	2012
Abstract:	Canine hepacivirus (CHV) was recently identified in domestic dogs and horses. The finding that CHV is genetically the virus most closely related to hepatitis C virus (HCV) has raised the question of whether HCV might have evolved as the result of close contact between dogs and/or horses and humans. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the NS3/4A serine protease of CHV specifically cleaves human mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) and Toll-IL-1 receptor domain-containing adaptor inducing interferon-beta (TRIF). The proteolytic activity of CHV NS3/4A was evaluated using a bacteriophage lambda genetic screen. Human MAVS- and TRIF-specific cleavage sites were engineered into the lambda cI repressor. Upon infection of Escherichia coli cells coexpressing these repressors and a CHV NS3/4A construct, lambda phage replicated up to 2000-fold more efficiently than in cells expressing a CHV protease variant carrying the inactivating substitution S139A. Comparable results were obtained when several HCV NS3/4A constructs of genotype 1b were assayed. This indicates that CHV can disrupt the human innate antiviral defense signaling pathway and suggests a possible evolutionary relationship between CHV and HCV.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BFU2010-15194 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SAF2010-21617
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	PloS one, Vol. 7 (august 2012) , ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042481
PMID: 22870331

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