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Journal Article
Inhibition of Hepatitis B Virus Replication by the Host Zinc Finger Antiviral Protein
2013
Overview
The zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a mammalian host restriction factor that inhibits the replication of a variety of RNA viruses, including retroviruses, alphaviruses and filoviruses, through interaction with the ZAP-responsive elements (ZRE) in viral RNA, and recruiting the exosome to degrade RNA substrate. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a pararetrovirus that replicates its genomic DNA via reverse transcription of a viral pregenomic (pg) RNA precursor. Here, we demonstrate that the two isoforms of human ZAP (hZAP-L and -S) inhibit HBV replication in human hepatocyte-derived cells through posttranscriptional down-regulation of viral pgRNA. Mechanistically, the zinc finger motif-containing N-terminus of hZAP is responsible for the reduction of HBV RNA, and the integrity of the four zinc finger motifs is essential for ZAP to bind to HBV RNA and fulfill its antiviral function. The ZRE sequences conferring the susceptibility of viral RNA to ZAP-mediated RNA decay were mapped to the terminal redundant region (nt 1820-1918) of HBV pgRNA. In agreement with its role as a host restriction factor and as an innate immune mediator for HBV infection, ZAP was upregulated in cultured primary human hepatocytes and hepatocyte-derived cells upon IFN-α treatment or IPS-1 activation, and in the livers of hepatitis B patients during immune active phase. Knock down of ZAP expression increased the level of HBV RNA and partially attenuated the antiviral effect elicited by IPS-1 in cell cultures. In summary, we demonstrated that ZAP is an intrinsic host antiviral factor with activity against HBV through down-regulation of viral RNA, and that ZAP plays a role in the innate control of HBV replication. Our findings thus shed light on virus-host interaction, viral pathogenesis, and antiviral approaches.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Adult
/ Animals
/ Biology
/ Carrier Proteins - chemistry
/ Carrier Proteins - metabolism
/ DNA
/ Female
/ Genomes
/ Hepatitis B virus - immunology
/ Hepatitis B virus - physiology
/ Hepatitis B, Chronic - immunology
/ Hepatitis B, Chronic - metabolism
/ Hepatitis B, Chronic - virology
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Peptide Fragments - chemistry
/ Peptide Fragments - genetics
/ Peptide Fragments - metabolism
/ Plasmids
/ Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
/ Protein Isoforms - chemistry
/ Protein Isoforms - metabolism
/ Proteins
/ Rats
/ Recombinant Proteins - chemistry
/ Recombinant Proteins - metabolism
/ RNA-Binding Proteins - chemistry
/ RNA-Binding Proteins - genetics
