Interferon-inducible ribonuclease ISG20 inhibits hepatitis B virus replication through directly binding to the epsilon stem-loop structure of viral RNA

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作者
Liu, Yuanjie [1 ]
Nie, Hui [2 ]
Mao, Richeng [1 ]
Mitra, Bidisha [1 ]
Cai, Dawei [1 ]
Yan, Ran [1 ]
Guo, Ju-Tao [3 ]
Block, Timothy M. [3 ]
Mechti, Nadir [4 ]
Guo, Haitao [1 ]
机构
[1] Indiana Univ Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA
[2] Drexel Univ, Coll Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[3] Baruch S Blumberg Inst, Doylestown, PA USA
[4] Univ Montpellier 2, CNRS, UMR5235, DIMNP, Montpellier, France
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
HUMAN HEPATOMA-CELLS; SINGLE-STRANDED RNA; IN-VITRO; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; EPIGENETIC REGULATION; GENE-EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; INFECTION; ALPHA; IDENTIFICATION;
D O I
10.1371/journal.ppat.1006296
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) replicates its DNA genome through reverse transcription of a viral RNA pregenome. We report herein that the interferon (IFN) stimulated exoribonuclease gene of 20 KD (ISG20) inhibits HBV replication through degradation of HBV RNA. ISG20 expression was observed at basal level and was highly upregulated upon IFN treatment in hepatocytes, and knock down of ISG20 resulted in elevation of HBV replication and attenuation of IFN-mediated antiviral effect. The sequence element conferring the susceptibility of HBV RNA to ISG20-mediated RNA degradation was mapped at the HBV RNA terminal redundant region containing epsilon (epsilon) stem-loop. Furthermore, ISG20-induced HBV RNA degradation relies on its ribonuclease activity, as the enzymatic inactive form ISG20(D94G) was unable to promote HBV RNA decay. Interestingly, ISG20(D94G) retained antiviral activity against HBV DNA replication by preventing pgRNA encapsidation, resulting from a consequence of ISG20-epsilon interaction. This interaction was further characterized by in vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and ISG20 was able to bind HBV epsilon directly in absence of any other cellular proteins, indicating a direct e RNA binding capability of ISG20; however, cofactor(s) may be required for ISG20 to efficiently degrade epsilon. In addition, the lower stem portion of epsilon is the major ISG20 binding site, and the removal of 4 base pairs from the bottom portion of epsilon abrogated the sensitivity of HBV RNA to ISG20, suggesting that the specificity of ISG20-epsilon interaction relies on both RNA structure and sequence. Furthermore, the C-terminal Exonuclease III (ExoIII) domain of ISG20 was determined to be responsible for interacting with epsilon, as the deletion of ExoIII abolished in vitro ISG20-epsilon binding and intracellular HBV RNA degradation. Taken together, our study sheds light on the underlying mechanisms of IFN-mediated HBV inhibition and the antiviral mechanism of ISG20 in general.
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