海西定
铁转运蛋白
丙型肝炎病毒
生物
内质网
血色病
化学
细胞生物学
病毒学
病毒
免疫学
炎症
遗传学
作者
Kazuyoshi Ohta,Masahiko Ito,Takeshi Chida,Kenji Nakashima,Satoshi Sakai,Yumi Kanegae,Hideya Kawasaki,Takuya Aoshima,Shuji Takabayashi,Hirotaka Takahashi,Kazuhito Kawata,Ikuo Shoji,Tatsuya Sawasaki,Takafumi Suda,Tetsuro Suzuki
出处
期刊:PLOS Pathogens
[Public Library of Science]
日期:2023-08-16
卷期号:19 (8): e1011591-e1011591
被引量:3
标识
DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1011591
摘要
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a pathogen characterized not only by its persistent infection leading to the development of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but also by metabolic disorders such as lipid and iron dysregulation. Elevated iron load is commonly observed in the livers of patients with chronic hepatitis C, and hepatic iron overload is a highly profibrogenic and carcinogenic factor that increases the risk of HCC. However, the underlying mechanisms of elevated iron accumulation in HCV-infected livers remain to be fully elucidated. Here, we observed iron accumulation in cells and liver tissues under HCV infection and in mice expressing viral proteins from recombinant adenoviruses. We established two molecular mechanisms that contribute to increased iron load in cells caused by HCV infection. One is the transcriptional induction of hepcidin, the key hormone for modulating iron homeostasis. The transcription factor cAMP-responsive element-binding protein hepatocyte specific (CREBH), which was activated by HCV infection, not only directly recognizes the hepcidin promoter but also induces bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP6) expression, resulting in an activated BMP-SMAD pathway that enhances hepcidin promoter activity. The other is post-translational regulation of the iron-exporting membrane protein ferroportin 1 (FPN1), which is cleaved between residues Cys284 and Ala285 in the intracytoplasmic loop region of the central portion mediated by HCV NS3-4A serine protease. We propose that host transcriptional activation triggered by endoplasmic reticulum stress and FPN1 cleavage by viral protease work in concert to impair iron efflux, leading to iron accumulation in HCV-infected cells.
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