| Project/Area Number |
14370106
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Virology
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research |
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Principal Investigator |
KOHARA Michinori TOKYO METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, HEAD, 東京都臨床医学総合研究所, 副参事研究員 (10250218)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YONEKAWA Hiromichi TOKYO METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, HEAD, 参事研究員 (30142110)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥13,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥6,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥7,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,200,000)
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| Keywords | Hepatitis C Virus / Interferon / IRF-3 / Persistent infection / Dimer formation |
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| Research Abstract |
One of the prominent features of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is persistent infection, which is assumed to be a crucial event as a result of evading host defense system. Type I interferon beta (IFN-β) system is induced rapidly after viral infection and plays a central role in innate immunity. Upon immediate induction of type I IFN as host first defense line, interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF-3) is phosphorylated, formed of homodimer and translocates to nucleus. IFN-β induction due to new castle disease virus (NDV) was significantly decreased after the expression of full HCV genome (HCR6-Rz). Similar modification was observed in cell line expressing core to the NS2 protein region (HCR6-Fse). However, this decreasing was not observed in cell line expressing NS2 to the NS5B region (HCR6-Age). IRF-3 dimer formation induced by NDV infection was also suppressed after the expression of HCR6-Rz and HCR6-Fse, but not HCR6-Age. We further analyzed using transiently expressed HCV core, E1 or E2 in HepG2 cells. The suppression of IRF-3 dimer formation was caused by HCV core protein alone. These results indicated that a new crucial biological function of HCV core protein that may be related to persistence and pathogenesis of HCV.
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