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Title
  • en The RNA Sensor RIG-I Dually Functions as an Innate Sensor and Direct Antiviral Factor for Hepatitis B Virus
Alternative
  • en RIG-I functions as a dual effector against HBV
Creator
Accessrights open access
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  • en © 2015. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  • en Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Subject
  • NDC 490
Description
  • Other en Supplemental materials are available on the publisher's website.
  • Abstract en Host innate recognition triggers key immune responses for viral elimination. The sensing mechanism of hepatitis B virus (HBV), a DNA virus, and the subsequent downstream signaling events remain to be fully clarified. Here we found that type III but not type I interferons are predominantly induced in human primary hepatocytes in response to HBV infection, through retinoic acid-inducible gene-I (RIG-I)-mediated sensing of the 5'-ε region of HBV pregenomic RNA. In addition, RIG-I could also counteract the interaction of HBV polymerase (P protein) with the 5'-ε region in an RNA-binding dependent manner, which consistently suppressed viral replication. Liposome-mediated delivery and vector-based expression of this ε region-derived RNA in liver abolished the HBV replication in human hepatocyte-chimeric mice. These findings identify an innate recognition mechanism by which RIG-I dually functions as an HBV sensor activating innate signaling and to counteract viral polymerase in human hepatocytes.
Publisher en Cell Press
Date
    Issued2015-01-20
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/62620
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2014.12.016
  • PMID 25557055
Journal
    • PISSN 1074-7613
      • en Immunity
      • Volume Number42 Issue Number1 Page Start123 Page End132
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