Hepatitis B Virus Evasion From Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine Monophosphate Synthase Sensing in Human Hepatocytes

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10385868" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10385868 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61388963:_____/18:00506339

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.30054" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.30054</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hep.30054" target="_blank" >10.1002/hep.30054</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hepatitis B Virus Evasion From Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine Monophosphate Synthase Sensing in Human Hepatocytes

Original language description

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of chronic liver disease and cancer worldwide. The mechanisms of viral genome sensing and the evasion of innate immune responses by HBV infection are still poorly understood. Recently, the cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS) was identified as a DNA sensor. In this study, we investigated the functional role of cGAS in sensing HBV infection and elucidate the mechanisms of viral evasion. We performed functional studies including loss-of-function and gain-of-function experiments combined with cGAS effector gene expression profiling in an infectious cell culture model, primary human hepatocytes, and HBV-infected human liver chimeric mice. Here, we show that cGAS is expressed in the human liver, primary human hepatocytes, and human liver chimeric mice. While naked relaxed-circular HBV DNA is sensed in a cGAS-dependent manner in hepatoma cell lines and primary human hepatocytes, host cell recognition of viral nucleic acids is abolished during HBV infection, suggesting escape from sensing, likely during packaging of the genome into the viral capsid. While the hepatocyte cGAS pathway is functionally active, as shown by reduction of viral covalently closed circular DNA levels in gain-of-function studies, HBV infection suppressed cGAS expression and function in cell culture models and humanized mice. Conclusion: HBV exploits multiple strategies to evade sensing and antiviral activity of cGAS and its effector pathways.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10607 - Virology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-15422S" target="_blank" >GA17-15422S: Sensing of hepatitis B virus-infected hepatocytes by plasmacytoid dendritic cells</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hepatology

ISSN

0270-9139

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

68

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1695-1709

UT code for WoS article

000448844900006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85050616411