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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
卷 83, 期 5, 页码 801-809出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22046
关键词
hepatitis C virus; translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 70; apoptosis; non-structural protein 3; tumor necrosis factor-alpha
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- Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan
- Clinical and Epidemiological Studies of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23590547] Funding Source: KAKEN
The localization of hepatitis C virus (HCV) proteins in cells leads to several problems. The translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 70 (TOM70) is a mitochondrial import receptor. In this study, TOM70 expression was induced by HCV infection. TOM70 overexpression induced resistance to tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-mediated apoptosis but not to Fas-induced apoptosis in HepG2 cells. TOM70 was found to be induced by the HCV non-structural protein (NS)3/4A protein, and silencing of TOM70 decreased the levels of the NS3 and Mcl-1 proteins. These results indicate that TOM70 can directly interact with the NS3 protein. In hepatoma cells, silencing of TOM70 induced apoptosis and increased caspase-3/7 activity but did not modify caspase-8 and caspase-9 activity. TOM70 silencing-induced apoptosis was impaired in HCV NS3/4A protein-expressing cells. Thus, this study revealed a novel finding, that is, TOM70 is linked with the NS3 protein and the apoptotic response. J. Med. Virol. 83: 801-809, 2011. (C) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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