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J Virol, May 1998, p. 3691-3697, Vol. 72, No. 5
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Hepatitis C Virus Core Protein Binds to the
Cytoplasmic Domain of Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Receptor 1 and
Enhances TNF-Induced Apoptosis
Nongliao
Zhu,1
Ali
Khoshnan,2
Robert
Schneider,2
Masayuki
Matsumoto,2
Gunther
Dennert,1
Carl
Ware,3 and
Michael M. C.
Lai1,2,*
Department of Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology1 and
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute,2 University of Southern California
School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, and
La Jolla
Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, California
921213
Received 26 November 1997/Accepted 28 January 1998
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein is known to be a
multifunctional protein, besides being a component of viral
nucleocapsids. Previously, we have shown that the core protein binds to
the cytoplasmic domain of lymphotoxin
receptor, which is a member
of tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family. In this study, we
demonstrated that the core protein also binds to the cytoplasmic domain
of TNFR 1. The interaction was demonstrated both by glutathione
S-transferase fusion protein pull-down assay in vitro and
membrane flotation method in vivo. Both the in vivo and in vitro
binding required amino acid residues 345 to 407 of TNFR 1, which
corresponds to the "death domain" of this receptor. We have further
shown that stable expression of the core protein in a mouse cell line
(BC10ME) or human cell lines (HepG2 and HeLa cells) sensitized them to TNF-induced apoptosis, as determined by the TNF cytotoxicity or annexin
V apoptosis assay. The presence of the core protein did not alter the
level of TNFR 1 mRNA in the cells or expression of TNFR 1 on the cell
surface, suggesting that the sensitization of cells to TNF by the viral
core protein was not due to up-regulation of TNFR 1. Furthermore, we
observed that the core protein blocked the TNF-induced activation of
RelA/NF-
B in murine BC10ME cells, thus at least partially accounting
for the increased sensitivity of BC10ME cells to TNF. However, NF-
B
activation was not blocked in core protein-expressing HeLa or HepG2
cells, implying another mechanism of TNF sensitization by core protein.
These results together suggest that the core protein can promote cell
death during HCV infection via TNF signaling pathways possibly as a result of its interaction with the cytoplasmic tail of TNFR 1. Therefore, TNF may play a role in HCV pathogenesis.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern
California School of Medicine, 2011 Zonal Ave., HMR-401, Los Angeles,
CA 90033-1054. Phone: (213) 342-1748. Fax: (213) 342-9555. E-mail: michlai{at}hsc.usc.edu.
J Virol, May 1998, p. 3691-3697, Vol. 72, No. 5
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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