戊型肝炎病毒衣壳蛋白结合CYP 2A6并降低其底物催化能力

HEV Capsid Protein Interacts with CYP 2A6 and Decreases Its Coumarin 7-Hydroxylation Activity

肝炎病毒的感染常常导致人体肝脏代谢能力变化,研究表明甲型肝炎病毒(Hepatitis A Virus,HAV)、乙型肝炎病毒(Hepatitis B Virus,HBV)和丙型肝炎病毒(Hepatitis C Virus,HCV)的感染都会影响肝细胞对药物的代谢能力。在本研究中,通过酵母双杂交系统在人肝cDNA文库中筛选与戊型肝炎病毒重组衣壳蛋白E2结合的蛋白,发现了与细胞色素P450 2A6(CYP2A6)部分片段高度同源的蛋白序列。通过pull-down、免疫共沉淀以及特异性底物催化反应评价等方法进一步证实了CYP2A6与重组衣壳蛋白E2、p239间的相互作用,并发现与p239结合可以降低CYP2A6对其特异性底物香豆素的催化能力。上述结果提示CYP2A6可能在戊肝病毒入侵细胞后的细胞病变过程中起作用。

E2 is a recombinant hepatitis E virus capsid protein including its main antigenic determinants but lacking of the particle assembling domain. P239 was the C-terminal extending protein of E2 and could self-assemble to form virus like particles, which might serve as mimicry of virions both structurally and antigenically. We previously used yeast two-hybrid system to screen proteins interacting with E2 based on a human hepatocyte cDNA library. One candidate was identified as the segment （aa388-437） of cytochrome P450 2A6 protein, which is predominantly expressed in liver and important for metabolization. Some studies have demonstrated that hepatitis virus infection may altered cell metabolic clearance of coumrarin which were rapidly matebolised by CYP2A6. In this research, we demonstrated that the protein interaction between HEV capsid proteins and CYP2A6 by pull-down and co-immunoprecipitation. It was also found that their interaction could decrease the CYP2A6 catalytic activity when p239 was incubated within the CYP2A6-transfected Huh7 ceils. These results suggested that CYP2A6 might be related ＇to the pathological process when HEV invaded host cells.